Sorry, I forgot to mention that I also had to change timezone in
-> Root/boot/grub the menu.lst
default 0timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue

title KNOPPIX
root (hd2,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdc1 rootwait lang= apm=power-off nomce libata.force=noncq tz=America/Vancouver loglevel=1 lang=en apm=power-off initrd=minirt.gz nomce hpsa.hpsa_allow_any=1 loglevel=1 rw
(when running Knoppix)