I use a laptop that multiboots with XP and I just set up a second hard
disk for it with Sid installed. As a result, the hardware clock is set
to local time and I can't seem to change Sid's mind on this.
Per the Debian GNU/Linux Administrator's Manual, the UTC variable in
/etc/default/rcS controls this behavior. After changing it to "no" and
restarting the system, my time is still off.
Somewhere the system is getting told to subtract an offset from the
hardware clock, and I wonder if I'm looking in the wrong place.