VELLY INTERESTING! (to borrow a phrase from a 60's TV show if any of you are old enough to remember it). Well setting the time using the QUICK DRIVE rule worked. So, it is apparently the STARTUP OPTIONS rule that is not working in build 96191, whereas it did in 96000. It became interesting from my standpoint in that my standard procedure for creating sessions is to FIRST, delete the QUICK DRIVE rule, and that 2nd rule that goes along with it, and add the START UP rule. Because, what I do is create AI ONLY sessions, that people can sit back and watch x number of consists do their thing. I have no need of the QD rule! In fact, this is the FIRST TIME that I even knew that the QD rule provided all the same options as the START UP plus more!.
To N3V do you want a bug report on the START UP rule? As I said, it worked correctly in build 96000. (Learn something every day, and I've been here since day one of TRAINZ!
On second thought - NO BUG. In the session causing my time problem I HAD NOT deleted the QUICK DRIVE rule. Even though the START UP rule was in first position, the QD apparently took precedents. Since I didn't know (till today) that QD did all that . . ..