godammit !!! SUCCESS !!!!!!

only taken me all day, and i don't usually last that long with the looking and researching and constant rebooting
to check things
while you forget what you were checking
and go and do something else
etc
etc
etc


http://www.infodrom.org/Debian/doc/m...-sysadmin.html

right, we need the timezone set AND the clock

doing the
tzselect
will show you what you need to put somewhere, namely
/home/username/.profile
thats a file in the home directory, not a directory
and it needs to be setup from the user dosshell too
i did one from the root dos shell, and the permissions on the file weren't right for the user to read it

but if you then set the clock and reboot it puts that danged New York time where you just were and then sets the TZ set zone relative to New York
again

well, looking at the link further up....
/etc/default/rcS
change the
UTC=no to yes
and reboot
and set the time
and reboot
and check it
and reboot
and feel very satisfied
and smug
and i'm currently doing my 6 other systems to check
but so far
SINGS
I feel good, nananananana
I knew that I would now
/SINGS