[Bug 1541532] [NEW] migrate UTC setting from /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

[Martin Pitt]

Public bug reported:

This has been an Ubuntu delta in systemd and perhaps other Ubuntu
packages for a long time. But /etc/default/rcS is a SysV-ism, and no
other setting in there is relevant. Steps:

 * Bump the version guard in systemd.conf for migrating the actual setting (keep until 16.04 LTS)
 * Ensure that we only look at the LOCAL setting during boot, and do no actual drift correction at boot, as the kernel does that by itself.
 * grep the archive for software which might directly look at or even write that file (Ubuntu specific config tools and the like).

** Affects: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Martin Pitt (pitti)
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
    Milestone: None => ubuntu-16.02

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti)

** Changed in: systemd (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  migrate UTC setting from  /etc/default/rcS to adjtime

Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This has been an Ubuntu delta in systemd and perhaps other Ubuntu
  packages for a long time. But /etc/default/rcS is a SysV-ism, and no
  other setting in there is relevant. Steps:

   * Bump the version guard in systemd.conf for migrating the actual setting (keep until 16.04 LTS)
   * Ensure that we only look at the LOCAL setting during boot, and do no actual drift correction at boot, as the kernel does that by itself.
   * grep the archive for software which might directly look at or even write that file (Ubuntu specific config tools and the like).

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