I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1, and I recently noticed a strange phenomenon. When I copy, or edit, a file, the correct time gets stamped on it (as I see by using stat). Also, my clock is correct. But when I `ls' a file, whether with -l or -lu or -lc , the time indicated is 5 hours later! (In my case, since I'm in the Eastern US, this means Greenwich Mean Time.) Why should this be? And how can I fix it? I don't know much about Linux, or Unix in general, and so I would be reluctant to call it a `bug,' except that I've asked a couple of experts, one of whom sent the question to a list, and no one has been able to come up with an answer. Could you tell me if this is a known bug? Jacob E. Goodman