I wrote this script for dealing with time on the beagle bone black. First run set the timezone to where you live on the 4th line. Any runs after that have the 3rd and 4th lines commented. If the time resets after each time you boot and doesn't automatically change to the correct time you can place this script in the auto run folder in the cloud 9 IDE (save it as time.sh, or whatever you like with a .sh extension. This script doesn't seem to be required for Debian on beagle bone, but other people on Angstom have reported that the time is not updating automatically after rebooting.   

#!/bin/bash
#update time
#rm -rf /etc/localtime
#ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime

c=0
x=1
while [ $x -ne 0 ]
do
    let c=$c+1
    if [ $c -gt 10 ]; then
    let x=0
    fi
    ntpdate -b -s -u pool.ntp.org
    if [ $ -ne 0 ]; then
    sleep 60
    else x=0
    fi
done