On Monday 25 July 2005 21:22, Joey Hess wrote: > I welcome thoughts of suggestions on this matter.. Running ntpdate once during install should also be optional. Lots of people install Debian as a second OS and would not like d-i to mess with their hardware clock. Running ntpdate also assumes quite a lot about network connectivity: is the port open; should a general ntp server be used or a local one (maybe DHCP can help there?). Installing some kind of ntp service should be optional. Also, personally I prefer chrony over ntp/ntpdate. What about laptops that may not have networking at boot? You can setup ntp software to deal with that (chrony has a nice mechanism), but that would need to be done. You are right there can be issues with ntp software: it often assumes a working RTC. At least for Sparc there is an issue with the RTC [1]. IIRC ntp was also affected. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=301592
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