Hi CentOS 5.3 with latest updates. I have a problem with the time zone on dedicated server. I had to setup the timezone using system-config-date to "Europe/London" and "System clock uses UTC" == checked # date; date -u; hwclock --show; hwclock --show --utc; zdump /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:47 GMT 2009 Thu May 7 21:29:47 UTC 2009 Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:48 PM GMT -0.411568 seconds Thu 07 May 2009 09:29:49 PM GMT -0.997482 seconds /etc/localtime Thu May 7 21:29:48 2009 GMT # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock ZONE="Europe/London" UTC=true ARC=false # cat /etc/adjtime -3525.635197 1241730131 0.000000 1241730131 UTC # strings /etc/localtime TZif2 TZif2 GMT0 # ntpdate -q 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 7 May 21:14:51 ntpdate[12689]: step time server 195.42.115.77 offset -3638.766689 sec Why -3638 sec ? thanks. -- with best regards