casper isn't touching the clock at boot time. ntpdate is triggered by ifupdown which sets the clock to the right time. The timezone is going to be UTC until a location is selected in ubiquity at which point the clock will change to reflect the timezone change.
I think the current behaviour is correct, though it indeed could be slightly improved by having NetworkManager parse the dhcp flag and expose that to the desktop environment somehow. ** Changed in: casper (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105519 Title: livecd clock is (inevitably) wrong To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/105519/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs