Andree Leidenfrost wrote: > When installing, the system time gets set to RTC time. However, my RTC > is set to UTC. Given that I'm in Sydney, I end up 11 hours out. > I'm pretty sure that the woody installer (or a package) used to asked > whether my hardware clock was set to UTC. The current installation > process does not ask this question. I'll bump the priority of that question back up to high. > To keep it simple, I believe the installer should ask for the timezone > as it currently does and then give a pop-up saying: > > Which one is closer to your current time: > > 22:31:21 > 11:31:21 > > <Ok> <Cancel> > > where the first choice assumes that the RTC is set to UTC whereas the > second assumes it's set to local time. This is a good idea on its face, but it has all sorts of problems. For example, suppose I am in GMT+4, and I receive a computer that was shipped to me from GMT+8, and has the hardware clock set to GMT+8 local time. It would then ask me which was closer to local time, GMT or GMT+8, when local time exactly splits the difference. -- see shy jo
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