LinuxQuestions.org - Time resets magically....

Ok, I'm having touble with my clock losing 5 hours during the boot process. Here's what I see in:
/var/log/messages:
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>>>>Here's the reboot. Before it booted back up I checked BIOS and the time was still correct, 18:45, however, after reboot I lost 5 hours, 18:45 to 13:45.
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Apr 27 18:45:06 localhost kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Apr 27 18:45:06 localhost kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Apr 27 18:45:07 localhost syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded
Apr 27 18:45:07 localhost exiting on signal 15
Apr 27 13:47:06 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Apr 27 13:47:06 localhost syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
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....then the time magically changes back to the correct time here after autofs, maybe in rc.sysinit
Apr 27 13:47:07 localhost kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.
Apr 27 13:47:07 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem: succeeded
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Unmounting initrd: succeeded
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost date: Sun Apr 27 18:46:32 UTC 2003
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sun Apr 27 18:46:32 UTC 2003 succeeded
Apr 27 18:46:34 localhost rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded
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....then a few lines later, apparently in rc.sysinit, the 5 hours get's lopped off again...
Apr 27 18:46:41 localhost fsck: /usr/local: clean, 1715/513024 files, 247948/1024135 blocks
Apr 27 18:46:41 localhost fsck: /var: clean, 5772/384000 files, 73446/767095 blocks
Apr 27 18:46:41 localhost rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Apr 27 13:46:41 localhost rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems: succeeded
Apr 27 13:46:41 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling local filesystem quotas: succeeded
Apr 27 13:46:42 localhost rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded
Apr 27 13:46:44 localhost init: Entering runlevel: 5

I looked in rc.sysinit, but don't really know what I'm looking for in there.
There are several instances of 'time' and 'clock' in there.

Also, I am still getting the weird phenomenon where pressing the OK button after running redhat-config-date causes the screensaver to start up. Also, after running redhat-config-date, I see this:

Apr 27 13:52:19 localhost su(pam_unix)[1097]: session opened for user root by (uid=500)
Apr 27 14:05:30 localhost userhelper: pam_timestamp: timestamp file `/var/run/sudo/bsl1/unknown:root' is too old,
disallowing access to redhat-config-date for UID 500
Apr 27 14:05:44 localhost ntpd: ntpd shutdown failed
Apr 27 19:15:15 localhost kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 45e1.

I'm not running ntpd. And, the time DOES change.

And, whether I select to use UTC or not I get the same result and if I select to use UTC, when I reboot and come back in, the UTC selection is no longer selected.

Any ides what's going on here?

Thanks.