Hi every1 I figured this out only when LINUX made me realize that my BIOS time is nt correct! Then i thought y the hell was windows showing me the right time! So i searched! Here i am posting one of the links! Do read this! Its related to UTC and RTC and how gmtime func in msdos c compiler(using standard c API) goes wrong! and hence is not suited for mission critical operations! i found this 1 interesting! Would like to get your reviews and more information if u got some! HERE's THE LINK -> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/mswish/ut-rtc.html regards -- "SOME THINGS ARE LEFT UNSAID" Varun Talwar