Comment 9 for bug 1377258

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Actually, option 1 would be to keep util-linux as-is and instead patch systemd to read the "is hwclock local?" from /etc/default/rcS instead of /etc/adjtime.

slangasek | pitti: again, my concern is that reinstating /etc/adjtime is going to cause people to start misusing hwclock --adjust
slangasek | which per Scott's analysis during the upstart implementation, we should not be doing ever

I don't have much detail about why it's bad, but that seems to indicate that we should keep the UTC setting as it is for now, and keep the delta.