Superblock last mount time is in the future

Yesterday, I encountered a confusing problem. During booting, the system complained that the superblock last mount time is in the future and asks me to fsck. I have used Debian Squeeze for months and encountered the problem for the first time. I wonder if it's a problem about UTC.

I have googled but found nothing guiding for me.

This can (and usually does) happen when the hardware clock dies, or else when the hardware clock was accidentally set in the far future sometime in the past (and has since been brought back into line). The former is far, far more common than the latter.

Make sure the machine's system and hardware clocks are both accurate now (run hwclock), then take the machine down in a maintenance, turn it off, pull it's power (physically disconnect it from the mains), wait a couple of minutes, then start it up again. Jump into the BIOS and check the time there. If it's still correct, then it's most likely to be a mis-set hardware clock and it probably won't happen again. If it's now wrong (probably set to Jan 1, 1988 or some other "round" time), the CMOS battery has died and you should replace it before setting the time correctly via the BIOS and booting the machine again. Keeping spare BIOS batteries around (our DC toolboxes each have a box of them) is always a good idea.

...and if the clocks are correctly set, just run fsck. Don't be afraid. It's a testing distro - maybe they messed something up. ;)

On my Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), Using Cook Schelling's answer above I edited /etc/default/rcS as administrator and changed the "FSCKFIX=no" to "FSCKFIX=yes"

When I rebooted, the problem was fixed.

Now, if I change the clock in BIOS setup, the system will automatically fix any "Superblock last mount time is in the future"-type problems.