Please see the lines bellow, root at snbntp0201 # echo $TZ GMT-4 root at snbntp0201 # date; date -u Wed May 10 19:35:04 GMT 2006 Wed May 10 15:35:04 GMT 2006 What i mean is that instead of subtract 4 it sum 4 to the GMT ... Do you see the diferences? I think this is ilogical or am i doing something wrong? Marvin Garcia