Thanx Ed,

Thursday night I went to the NOLUG meeting and Joey Kelly and the guys
gave me a little insight into the subject. I later found this post on
the ubuntuforums site:

Re: Clock Problems
I had the same issue. I believe it stems from your original install,
when the setup program asks you to set up the time. The way I
understand it, Windows uses local time, and I set U to use Greenwich
Mean Time. The result? My Windows clock was always about 5 hours fast.
Solution was as posted above, change UTC to "no" and reset your clock.
I followed the instructions below for 5.10 (Breezy Badger

Open a terminal and log in as root.
Type: sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS and hit [Enter]
Edit UTC=yes so it reads UTC=no
Save the edited file and close it.
Click System -> Administration -> Time and Date
Set the correct time/date
In the terminal type: sudo /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh restart and hit [Enter]

This seems to have done the trick.

Mike York

--- In nopc_help@yahoogroups.com, "jahnckee" <edwardjahncke@...> wrote:
>
> Mike:
> Zulu time (GMT) (UTC) is ahead of Central Time by -6 hours, When
> Daylight Savings kick in and we "spring forward", then the offset is -
> 5.
> I was reading another group's messages, and the comment was made that
> times shown were taken from the Windows clock. Or was it the clock on
> the Motherboard?
> That's a thought...on start-up go to Bios check and see what the
> motherboard clock setting is!!!
> If that reads correctly (I would assume for Win VU, then you only have
> to figure out how to adjust the setting in Kubuntu..
> Hope these thoughts help.
> Edward
>
> --- In nopc_help@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mike@> wrote:
> >
> > I have both Kubuntu and Win VU set to update time automatically but
> > upon booting into either one of them the clocks are wrong. Kubuntu
> > seems to apply the time zone offset twice, ie. local time 10:00am
> > clock shows 5:00am. Win VU seems to show GMT, ie. local time
> 10:00am
> > clock shows 3:00pm. Any way to make either OS force a time update on
> > reboot? I know how to change the interval in Win XP and I'm assuming
> > that it is the same in Win VU but I have never seen anything to
> > indicate how to force it. Again, I'd appreciate any feedback.
> >
> > Mike York
> >
>