FYI, I found out why the clock display on Mandrake was running 7 hours 
behind for me- apparently Mandrake Linux "wants" to display the time as 
Greenwich Mean Time. Consequently, if your system clock is set to local 
time, you must indicate at set up that it is set to GMTin order to 
display local time. If you indicate that your system clock is /not/ set 
to GMT, the software will make the necessary adjustment based on your 
locality so that the clock displays GMT anyway.

Lee Einer