[SOLVED] How do I switch my hardware clock from localtime to UTC

I originally set my Xubuntu 12.04 install to store localtime to the hardware clock, because I thought that would require the minimum amount of hassle for dual-booting with Windows.

But after I read that it was easy to switch Windows to handle a UTC system clock here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...UTC_in_Windows

and read about the impact of a localtime system clock on Linux here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Clock-2.html

I decided to switch my computer's hardware clock (RTC) to UTC. Unfortunately, although I know I selected that option when installing Xubuntu, I didn't find any mention of how to make this change here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuTime

Eventually I figured out, the change that needed to be made was:

1) Confirm the correct timezone is set using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
2) Set the correct time using System=>Time and Date
3) Push this time/date to the hardware clock (RTC) using hwclock --utc --systohc
4) Edit /etc/default/rcS and change utc=NO to utc=YES

I'm not pretending to have this all figured out, but thought I'd try to share my learnings with anyone else who was unable to figure out that /etc/default/rcS was useful in whether UTC or localtime was used with the hardware/RTC clock.