F8 & F9: Date & Time

["Daniel B. Thurman" <dant cdkkt com>]

i386 (i686)

In F8, on every reboot, the date and/or time settings get really
messed up.  I am not allowed to set the 'adjust Date & Time'
settings via the "tool" (upper-right corner) even when I log
in as root - the Calendar/Time dialog is greyed-out, meaning
it is not available so I have to resort to the date command-line
setting to get it right.  Even tho, a reboot screws it up all over
again.  The screwed up date/time setting is not fixed via the
ntp setting I think because it is so far out of date/time?

In F9, same as in F8, except that I am allowed to set the date/time
via the GUI interface.

What gives?

Dan