F12-alpha: superblock always in future

[sean darcy]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 20:48 -0500, Todd wrote:
> 
>> I do a lot of distro testing, and this really bugs me.  Fedora
>> defaults to the system clock being set to UTC instead of local time,
>> and resets the hardware clock to what it thinks is the correct time.
>> The problem is when you reboot into another distro that assumes the
>> system is on localtime and freaks out a bit since the file system has
>> time stamps in the future.  I know there are probably very good
>> reasons for Fedora defaulting to the system clock being UTC, and I
>> also know that I have the option to uncheck the box during install,
>> but I would really like to see the default changed.
> 
> But then it would screw up in exactly the same way for any other OS that
> expects the system clock to be UTC. We can't magically be right every
> time. Given that, we should choose the best default, and defaulting to
> system clock being UTC is the best, because it's _correct_ - that's the
> sane way to set things up. Most modern distros and OSes (I think even
> Windows 7...) default to having the system clock set to UTC.
> 

OK, let's say UTC is correct. I don't care. What do I change ( remember 
it won't boot) from a Live CD that will allow it to boot?

Also (venting) why does it keep retreating 4 hours into the past? That 
is, when I boot it tells me last mount was 4 hours in future ( and 
remember, this is first boot from install).
So I fsck it, changing the timestamp. Now on reboot, it's still 4 hours 
in the future, because system clock has gone back another 4 hours. This 
is a feature?

sean