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Bug#401762: marked as done (debian-installer: Installer still assumes hardware clock is set to UTC)

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal

Hi,

I just installed using the daily business image and the installer still assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC. I'm in CET, so the time is one hour ahead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 20:42, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> I just installed using the daily business image and the installer still
> assumes the hardware clock is set to UTC. I'm in CET, so the time is
> one hour ahead.

The installer has some logic to determine if the clock is likely to be set 
to UTC or local TZ. It assumes local if another OS is detected that is 
known to require local (think Windows), and assumes UTC if the new Debian 
system is the only OS on the system. In some cases it will ask at default 
priority.
We feel this algorithm will work for 99% of all installations (as you 
really should use UTC if you only run Linux).

If you always want the question asked, install in expert mode or boot 
with 'priority=medium'. Or just adjust the setting in /etc/default/rcS 
after reboot.

Closing the report as I expect the installer was just working as designed 
and there is no bug.

Cheers,
FJP

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