Can you help? My computer is ahead of it's time!

[Gilbert Sebenste]

Hey gang,

Now THIS is interesting.

I'm in the central time zone U.S.A. (Chicago), and suddenly, a few days 
ago, my computer thought it was in the eastern time zone (1 hour later), 
and the clock jumped ahead one hour!

Since I have ntp turned on to ping sites for the correct time, I thought 
the upstream host was flaky. So, I went into the time function by 
clicking on the clock with the right mouse button, then "Adjust date and 
time", and then clicked on "Chicago". It then pinged the new host 
for the correct time, and it got it. Problem solved, or so I thought.

When I type "date", I get:

Sat Mar  4 12:41:17 CST 2006

But...all my scripts are still kicking off as they were in the eastern 
time zone! How can this be?

I have questions. You have answers...I hope! Any help is geatly 
appreciated. Thanks!

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
(My opinions only!)                                                  ******
Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University                      ****
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