Strange Menu Bar Clock Behavior

My Clock in Menu Bar Does Not Show Same Time as Preference Pane Date and Time. It has the accurate date but the time is +4hrs. Changing the time zone has no affect!
Is there a plist to delete?
Anyone else see this?
Any ideas?
Thanks

Read elsewhere to replace the following preferences file in my user library and I did so and it worked after restart!!
com.apple.systemuiserver.plist

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