Time is always GMT

I recently purchased an extended life battery, because my one from Apple had finally died on me. The new battery was causing me some grief -- and somehow in the process of resetting my pram/nvram (which the battery company told me to try), my clock got messed up. No big deal, I figured, until I realized I couldn't set it back to EST time. No matter what, after I close the time settings manager, it goes back to GMT.
Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.

Drag these two files to the desktop and reboot the computer:
~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
I had the same problem and this resolved it.
* rebooting will generate new .plist files to replace the ones you drag
to the desktop - any customised GUI settings will be set back to default values.
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