ideally set your hwclock & systemclock to UTC and timezone to your location
a nice little text gui thats lets you set your systemclock to UTC and timezone to your location !
automatically equiv to
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/<mytimeloc> /etc/localtime

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

$ date

# hwclock

# timeconfig