On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:48 +0000, Rob Speer wrote:

> I interact with other computers that are on UTC. That strikes me as an
> undesirable workaround, when the bug is that dumping to a root shell and
> forcing a fsck is an inappropriate response to the clock being off by a
> few hours.
> 
You misunderstand the meaning of the setting.

Your *system clock* will always be in UTC, this setting refers to what
your hardware clock stores time in.  Nominally we'd prefer that to be
UTC too, but this is not possible if we're sharing the machine with
Windows.

Scott
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superblock last write time is in the future
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268808
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