On 14 Jul 2007, at 17:54, Thomas W Noel wrote: > ... > I still don't know where the preference for time zone gets stored, > but the problem must have been a corrupted file (perhaps the > preference pane itself?). $ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 33 Jun 20 2006 /etc/localtime -> /usr/ share/zoneinfo/Europe/London $ > The problem was solved by running the ComboUpdater 10.4.10 to that > drive. Ooops. Too late now. I intended to reply earlier - it'd have been interesting to see the permissions on that file & what it said. /etc/localtime is the way to set timezone in Unix but I have no idea whether OS X respects it. Stroller.