Here's the bootup log area from a CentOS 4 box, fully updated. Seems to start into the US eastern time zone properly, but then it set's itself back to I think UTC after the filesystem check. May 14 14:49:12 visit1 fsck: /var1: recovering journal May 14 14:49:16 visit1 fsck: /var1: clean, 10074/4227072 files, 798409/8445596 blocks May 14 14:49:16 visit1 rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded May 14 10:49:16 visit1 rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: succeeded May 14 10:49:17 visit1 rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas: succeeded May 14 10:49:17 visit1 rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded This is on a Compaq Proliant 1850.. Never seen this before on any previous versions of Redhat? Very odd. Any ideas? It is causing lots of grief, particular with FTP operations. Best, John Hinton