I just heard from Thom via email concerning the date problem. He said:
{CLIPPED FROM EMAIL} Hi Garry,
I am aware of the problem. Starting and ending dates are being stored in GMT instead of your local time zone. That will be corrected in the next update. Any Auction Lots that are updated will have their dates corrected.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Regards, Thom Withgott {END OF CLIP}
I replied with a huge thanks and told him I loved the Beta and would be able to fix the date thingie using GridView until he issued the update.