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> It's just a long shot, but when you log in as this user, and run 'date -u'
> or reset the TZ environment variable, do you still get something bizzare?

He has no TZ variable set.I cant see if it looks odd for him until
it misbehaves again, but I will...

> Is is possible there's some weirdness in the local timezone this user
> might be trying to use?

A normal user shouldnt be able to trash the system clock though, no
matter how wierd his local timezone. hes using pine I believe, but
thats not suid so I cant see how that could alter the clock either.

sigh,

I;m going to revbuild the kerenl in ase an error crept in on my last
build and see if that helps.

-pcf.

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