Bug#380105: Show current hour in hardware clock question

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On Aug 25, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Christian Perrier wrote:

> > I am not sure, but in the graphical installer, we could add a  
> > clock widget
> > somewhere from the start, and do clock setting pretty early one  
> > (we probably
> > only need hwclock and a little menu thingy), it can even be done  
> > before
> > base-install and partman, since there are no extra dependencies.
>
> There has been such kind of suggestion last weeks but it has been
> ruled out. I guess that the rationale is mostly avoiding features that
> are only available in some D-I flavours.
>
> So, if a method to set the clock is offerred, it has to work for all
> interfaces.

In some cases it's not possible (e.g. no hardware clock.)  In some  
cases it's possible but not desirable (e.g. hardware clock exists but  
is known to be wrong and porters have decided to ignore it during  
system initialization until access to an external clock is available.)

But it seems a shame to ban a useful tool just because some people  
can't or won't use it...

My two cents worth,

Rick