I have Neon installed on a PC and a laptop. I have noticed since the update to 5.7.4 that every time I boot into Neon, my clock is wrong.

I then noticed it is wrong in Mint and Windows, so I checked the BIOS time and it was wrong on both machines.

Any ideas why Neon is changing my BIOS settings?

P.S. I don't even have to log in for the damage to be done. Simply loading the splash screen is enough for it to modify the BIOS.

Did some searching on Google and discovered this is common with dual-boot systems. Apparently Ubuntu sets the hardware clock to UTC by default. This then throws out the time in any other OS you have installed.

The fix was to enter the command:

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timedatectl set-local-rtc 1

The article is at:

http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/dual-boot-fix-time-differences-between.html

Seems to have done the trick. Will see if I get any unforeseen side-effects in the next few days.