reassign 619064 clock-setup thanks Quoting Riku Saikkonen (rjs@cs.hut.fi): > Package: debian-installer > Version: 20110106+b1 > Severity: minor > > [ I hope this is the right package and version for this bug report - > or should I file against installation-reports? I am talking about the > text-mode installer in Debian 6.0.0, i.e., the initial squeeze > release, using a self-prepared USB stick/hard drive image with the > kernel and initrd from hd-media/vmlinuz and hd-media/initrd.gz, and > the ISO image debian-6.0.0-i386-netinst.iso. I gave the option > priority=low to the kernel. ] > > As far as I could see, the only supported way to set the system time > in the installer is to use NTP, which it automatically suggests. > However, this does not work from behind a strict firewall without a > local NTP server, or when there is no working network in the > installer... > > I tried to execute a shell from the installer to set the date > manually, but I did not find a "date" executable. (I'm used to setting > system time using "date -s".) So how should I set the date manually, > if that is necessary? > > Ideally, I think there could be a dialog after I have answered "No" to > the question about using NTP that displays the current system time and > allows changing it. (Or maybe the question about NTP could be changed > to display the current date and time and give the options "Don't set > the time", "Set the time using NTP" and "Set the time manually".) > Other possibilities would be to include the "date" command in the > busybox binary that comes with the installer, or to include GNU date > (which I guess is a bit big). There are several suggestions for clock-setup to implement such things. Some are suggesting to *display* the current time, which has always been postponed because only displaying it without any way to really set it is indeed pointless. So, well, let's reassign this to clock-setup and eventually wait in hope that someone comes up with a nicely designed patch (debconf is not really well-suited for this, though).
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