Comment 2 for bug 268808

I can confirm this, it is, in my opinion, a pretty nasty user experience actually!

My user experience:
1. Switch new PC to linux (note, the system clock was set to local (Amsterdam) time, which is 1 hour ahead of GMT)
2. Drop my shiny new daily build Karmic Netbook Remix cd in the drive, installing it (looks & went perfect, my compliments!)
3. Reboot system
4. Upon reboot stuck in the 'dos' screen with some 'vague' notion something went wrong (ofcourse I know wat it is, but your average joe will by this time switch off his PC, pull the ubuntu cd from the drive and ritually sacrifice it to the gods of the many windows)
5. Run fsck
6. reboot again
7. to my disbelief the message 'superblok time in future' appears again! so fixed that
8. reboot again
9. boot as it should have at point 4.

Could there be a way to have mountall perhaps automatically attempt to run fsck, specifically just to fix the superblock time issue after install? Or have the installer reset the hardware time BEFORE messing with the FS?