(hardy)Clock mis-set after install ?

[Dana J. Laude]

xerces8 wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> (I'm a computer enthusiast for 20 years now, been redhat linux official beta team member for years
> and work as a sotware engineer)
> 
> Yesterday I installed Ubuntu from the hardy-desktop-i386 CD.
> 
> After that I noticed that the system clock (HW/BIOS clock) is set wrong. It was running correct for
> years before ...
> 
> The system is not networked, neither did I change the time. So ubuntu should have no reason to
> assume the BIOS clock is wrong.
> 
> Any idea what happened ?
> Does this sound familiar ?
> 
> I tried to reproduce this under vmware, but failed. I guess vmware synches the emulated BIOS clock
> to the hosts system clock so it obscured the problem (if it happened at all).

Normally, it sets your hardware (ala BIOS) clock to UTC time and then 
shows your normal local time on the system clock. (like in kde or gnome)

This has been this way for ages under debian, *ubuntu, suse and others 
for quite some time. I remember way back when red hat had a option for 
either utc or local for the hardware clock. (probably still an option 
for all dists)

Dana