The bug appears to me like this: Even with UTC=no, Ubuntu stores the time as UTC at shutdown. But since UTC=no, it expects the time as local, thus applies no timezone correction, and the time is 4 hours fast for those in EDT country.
Took me the longest time to suss it out, since having automatic time synch enabled fixed the time before a clock was ever displayed - for me, the problem only showed up when I dual-booted over to Windows, or turned off the auto-sync. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to sysvinit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1377698 Title: /etc/default/rcS: UTC=no is being ignored Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This causes the greeter time to display utc & sets system time to utc Affects users who are in a different timezone Also affects users who dual boot with windows, their time will be off by amount different from utc to their time zone ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-41ubuntu18 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-20.27-generic 3.16.3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Oct 5 14:16:48 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-05 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923) SourcePackage: sysvinit UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.default.rcS: 2014-10-05T10:58:21.042693 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/1377698/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
