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>Whenever I reboot the system, my linux server's time will always be
>about 6 hrs ahead of the CMOS(actual) time which I have preset.

It sounds like you have a timezone problem.

Have you properly set up the system clock load (somewhere in your startup scripts; on Slackware it would be in /etc/rc.d/rc.S)? The lines would look like…
```
# Configure the system clock.
# This can be changed if your system keeps GMT.
if [ -x /sbin/clock ]; then
  /sbin/clock -s
fi
```
Have you properly set up your Timezone settings. You should have an /etc/localtime file (on Slackware, this comes from your timezone setup, and is a file from the files in /usr/lib/zoneinfo)
Have you properly set up your TZ environment variable?

Lew Pitcher