On 02/07/2015 06:31 AM, g wrote: <<>> > /etc/adjtime is still; > > 6.736246 1423375017 0.000000 > 1423375017 > UTC and that is where problem is/was. having looked at files that related to problem, i realized that there was one that i had not changed, but did note it had a recent time stamp. what changed it, i do not know, but it was time stamped during when i was playing with hwclock and system-config-date. being that it was showing UTC, i figured i had nothing to lose, so i changed to CST and rebooted. during bios, i broke to it, set bios clock to UTC again, rebooted. that did it. time in panel clock is now correct CST and UTC is also correct. now my 'chemo brain' can rest for a while. ;-) my thanks to all for responding. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .