> I do have /etc/timezone set (to Europe/Bucharest) but that doesn't change > the aklog behaviour... So your output should look like: $ date Wed May 7 12:37:57 EEST 2008 $ date -u Wed May 7 09:38:16 UTC 2008 (3h difference) If it does and the clock is set correct, your error is elsewhere. To set the clock you can run ntpdate against ntp1.sp.se. Harald.