Bug#448871: Should give us the option of syncing time

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 448871 clock-setup 0.92
severity 448871 important
thanks

On Thursday 01 November 2007, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> I just tried one of the daily build netboot installer, and the only
> problem I faced is that it just waited at the ntp syncing stage. I
> don't know whether it times out, but I just went to a console and
> killed the process.

This basically means that the current time-out is just too long for 
practical use as is.
An alternative option could be to make it possible to cancel the action, 
just like we do for looking for a DHCP server.

> This is important enough, I felt, to possess a severity `normal', but
> feel free to downgrade it if necessary.

I'd even say it's important enough for severity "important".

Thank you for your feedback.