[nflug] strange time problem

[Cyber Source]

Hello all,
  If I set the date in my Linux system with "date 07210700" I set it to 
7am today. I have the correct edt setting, /etc/timezone reads 
"America/New_York", however the bios time is always 4 hours different. 
Even if I set "hwclock --systohc", it's still a 4 hour difference. 
Normally I wouldn't care if the bios time is off but this is a dual boot 
and windows reads the bios clock and is then wrong. Any ideas on this? I 
played with the utc setting but don't think it did anything, even so, 
wouldn't utc make it a 6 hour difference? Ideas?