>I set the time using date command, but when I rebooted, it 
>went back to old time.  Any suggestion?

You are simply overlooking the obvious... you have to set the time
using yout CMOS setup program in order to set your internal
battery-backed up clock.

Type the date command to see what timezone it says you are in and make
sure it is right.  If so, note the difference b/w the time it says and
the real time.  Then go into your CMOS setup program and adjust the
time by that delta value.  Notice that the CMOS time is not going to be
your wall clock time because it is running in GMT (I think.)  I also
think you should disable any daylight savings misfeature present in
your CMOS setup if one is present.

This is basically what I did about a year ago and it has been fine
since.

Also man timezone and/or grep around for timezone in the man pages.  If
you have it set wrong.  You will end up setting the /etc/timezone
simlink to point to the proper descriptor file.  Get that set up
correctly first.

Gee... has this timezone stuff been added to the setup proper yet?  I
thought it strange when installing 0.9, that I did not get to set the
timezone.

--John

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