(hardy)Clock mis-set after install ?

[xerces8]

"Dana J. Laude" wrote:

> 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)

Yes, but given this:
 - BIOS clock has value 03:55
 - I choose timezone UTC+2 (CET)

Why would it change the BIOS clock ?
Why would it assume, that 3:55 is wrong and something else is right ?

(And it did not change it to 03+2 (or 03-2) but some totally off value.)

Regards,
David