system clock and time zones during setup

I've had Windows since 3.0 (!) and have done many, many installs of the many
versions. One thing during setup is setting the time zone/date/time if your
system clock and the dialog box selecting your time zone doesn't get the
hour/day/date correct based on what your system clock already knows, and
what Windows applies according to your zone selection (GMT + or - or
whatever). Usually I see the change - correct and immediate, when I click
the proper time zone.

With the three publicly released versions o' Vista I've tried, I select
"Central Standard Time." It puts my clock behind by two hours (I think
that's what it is, anyway it isn't right). Never happened before Vista. I
think "well, on reboot surely it will be OK." I reboot into XP this time to
run an editor for a universal remote control program and download the latest
changes via USB to it, including date and time. I fail to notice the system
time in XP is now wrong as well and now the remote has the wrong time.

I correct it in XP then it remains OK; but the Vista setup is a surprise, I
clicked a few other time zones and they didn't correct the clock to their
respective time either. Darn, I forgot to go to the clock settings and
select a time zone "outside of setup" to see what that would do, can't try
now, preparing smaller/slower drive to be replaced in anticipation of a new
hard drive so I can try a lot more with Vista than before.

Am I the only one in the *twilight zone* on this? Maybe I missed something
stupid *-) Thanks -

Bill Halvorsen