[wubi]clock wrongly assumed to be in UTC

Bug #406949 reported by David Balažic
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 9.04 x86_64
Installed from Windows XP with Wubi rev129

current wall clock time : 17:30
UTC time : 15:30

Windows system setting for timezone : (GMT+01:00) Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague
(summer time is in effect)

I installed Ubuntu and after booting into it, the situation is like this:

stein@ubuntu:~$ date -u
Thu Jul 30 17:34:05 UTC 2009
stein@ubuntu:~$ date -R
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:34:10 -0400
stein@ubuntu:~$ date
Thu Jul 30 13:34:22 EDT 2009
stein@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/timezone
America/New_York
stein@ubuntu:~$ sudo hwclock --show
Thu 30 Jul 2009 01:37:41 PM EDT -0.630628 seconds

After booting back to windows:
 displayed time : 13:40
$ date -u
11:40

So:
 - <my conclusions about what did Ubuntu right and what wrong deleted, as they were initially wrong and I am tired. You are smart, figure it out.>
 - timezone is wrong, it should be Europe/Ljubljana or similar

David Balažic (xerces8)
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David Balažic (xerces8)
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David Balažic (xerces8)
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mishabhi (mishabhi) wrote :

I am seeing the same bug.
Any fix ?

Agostino Russo (ago)
Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in wubi:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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AJenbo (ajenbo) wrote :

I belive this bug was fixed along with this one https://bugs.launchpad.net/wubi/+bug/428575

Try installing with build 170
http://wubi-installer.org/devel/minefield/Wubi-9.10-rev170.exe

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David Balažic (xerces8) wrote :

Nope.

I started wubi 170 and installed from DVD at 16:05 local time (CET) , UTC 15:05

after that in Ubuntu:
UTC 16:20
local 11:20 (some US timezone)

In Windows:
UTC: 10:20
local: 11:20

Actual local time was 16:20.

used install media: 9.10 amd64 DVD (CD iso image), .disk/info:
Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)

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Jason R. Coombs (jaraco) wrote :

I experienced this problem installing Wubi 10.4 this weekend.

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David Balažic (xerces8) wrote :

With wubi rev 197 I installed ubuntu 10.10 desktop i386.

Same problem. Well, almost.

After running Ubuntu, the hardware clock is wrong, again.

This time Wubi/ubuntu wrongly assumed that local time is some USA time zone, which is false, I am still in Slovenia and still have Slovenian locale, including Central European Time.

So theoretically, this bug did not occur. In practice it did.

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