Hmmm, I think I suffer from this problem as my time is always wrong on my workstation running Ubuntu. Will has to try this to see if it fixes it.
I recently had a friend using Ubuntu who’s time/date was constantly being set back to UTC, much to her frustration.
Here’s how to change this behavior.
First, we’re going to modify (and make a backup of) your rcS file in the /etc/default directory.