since your date is Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 01:24:21 +0200 (CEST) this smacks of a GMT/Local problem. (note the +2) On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, [ISO-8859-1] _-¯-_ wrote: > time seems to be 1 or 2 hours early compared to what the shell says .. > how = this? > > -- > X Ð v > > >