Quoting David Härdeman (david@2gen.com): > On Thu, August 24, 2006 9:52, Christian Perrier said: > > You should change this setting only if this computer also runs another > > operating system that expects the hardware clock to be set to local > > time. > > Can we expect inexperienced users to know if their "other" OS want the > hardware clock to be set to local time? Since most of those users would > realistically be dual-booting with Windows, how about: > > You should change this setting only if this computer also runs another > operating system that expects the hardware clock to be set to local > time (e.g. all versions of Microsoft Windows). Please note that the UTC prompt will *not* be seen by "inexperienced users" who run installs at high priority (the default). While thinking about this BR, I was mostly sure that we indeed have something in D-I to NOT default to UTC for HW clock when there's a dual boot with Windows..... But indeed, I find nothing in the code...and nothing in the BTS. The main problem here is that tzsetup is run before os-prober and thus, at the moment we run tzsetup (and actually ask this UTC question), we don't know whether Windows is installed or not. Joey, as main clock stuff maintainer, do you have an idea about this?
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