Comment 5 for bug 239782

I also was unable to get help from other people in forums. They all used wierd workarounds jus as I described above.
I only found an old FAQ for Ubuntu 4.10 http://www.opennet.ru/base/rus/ubuntu_rus.txt.html which says that timezone bug still not fixed, and I found there that I can correct it through /etc/default/rcS. I was in shock how long time it takes to fix the bug. Without this manual I would probably aandon my Ubuntu installation.