<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Marc, I do not see a reason on a dual boot system that Windows can impact you!? So I don't think you have to remove it see you Frank Marc M wrote: <blockquote cite="midb60a966f0503311837325738ca@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">if you are using NTP you should use a local NTP server (same time zone) I have had the same prob on my FC3 Notebook and I only could fix it with changing the NTP server I used. some how the NTP request is overwirting all the other settings. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> --Ok, will do, thanks. And yes I am EST. ---In answer to Bret's question, yes, when I run timeconfig, the 'system clock uses UTC' is indeed checked. --Oh, and this is a dual boot with windblows that I haven't bothered removing, if windblows is the problem I will eradicate that. How do I know for sure that windblows is the problem here? Marc </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>