There's no reason for the RTC to be in local time.  One way 
to compensate is to reset it to GMT.  However, if you're sharing
a clock with Windows, you're stuck with their idiocy (i.e. a clock
that is always at the wrong time until the system resets it if you
live in a world with daylight savings time).

Timesync sets the os's view of time.  With -r it sets time from the
RTC rather than a network source and stays synced with it.  With -rL
it sets from the RTC and assumes the RTC is in local time.  Timesync never
sets the RTC.

This means that the system, by reading the RTC on boot, will be in
the wrong time zone till timesync gets in there.  Boot can't do
any better because the file system with the timezone files  hasn't
started yet at that point.