I just sent a bug report to debian-bugs stating that I was going to submit a bug report on /sbin/clock for the miscutils package. I've not received an ack on that bug report, and might not check my mail again till tomorrow.
This is just a note that I'm not going to submit a miscutils bug report. I'll probably eventually want to append a similar note to the bug report that I've just submitted, but that may take a while. [explanation: I don't know that /sbin/clock is ignoring information from /etc/localtime if the information in /etc/localtime is inaccurate.] -- Raul