Time issue

[Daniel Robitaille]

> My timezone is set to New York, since I live in the EST timezone.
> However, the clock is four hours behind where it should be; if I
> manually adjust it, the systemtime is change, so when I reboot into
> Windows, I'm four hours <i>ahead</i> of where I should be. Windows'
> time is normally set via internet synchronization, so it's going to be
> correct. What should I be doing differently in ubuntu to get the time
> correct?

short answer from a previous post to this list:
"Edit the file /etc/default/rcS, in there is a setting for time--you're
wanted the RTC to be set to local time instead of UTC."

long answer:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1332