Why does my 10.5.8 machine wake at 5:59 pm everyday?

For quite some time and I really noticed more so recently that my G4 DP1.42 wakes, if it's asleep, at exactly 5:59 pm everyday, even after DST change. I have searched high and low in the prefs panel and everywhere else and can not find anything that I could have set that would be doing this.
It's a complete mystery. Any ideas?

All the versions of Backup up to the last were great, free and as I said I still use today. The flexibility is that of the old days when Apple was something to work with. Not against.
I have a new clean install on a separate partition that I need to move into that would be perfect to test. I just have to remember to boot to it at the appropriate time. I really need to move into it. But what I use to do as fun and would only take a couple of hours, is now something I just don't want deal with. So . . .
Things to try and things to ponder. I think this is happening just to jack with me. If it isn't one thing, it's another. My laptop died on me, now I have to deal with that so there's that now too.
Will it ever end?
Thanks . . .
. . . guy

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