Comment 5 for bug 279065

Sorry for the multiple negatives. Actually I'm saying the exact opposite: I'm saying that I would expect a Unix-like OS to keep the hardware clock in UTC when no other operating systems are involved. At the risk of belabouring the point, Unix-like operating systems simply work better with the hardware clock in UTC; system administrators tend to find this out every six months when daylight savings time switches on or off, especially if some of their systems happen to go down during the relevant window. (Of course the use of NTP works around some of these issues.)

It seems like OpenSolaris has made a serious mistake, but thanks for the information. I've unfortunately left it a bit late to change this for Ubuntu 8.10 now, but we can do it for 9.04.