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Bug#702093: debian-installer: please allow the user to set the system time manually



Riku Saikkonen <rjs@netti.fi> (2013-03-02):
> I have two suggestions for fixing this bug:
> 
>  - Please include the "date" command in busybox in the initrd to allow
>    setting the system time from the command line.

I suspect this should be rather straightforward and harmless (a few
extra bytes in busybox-udeb).

>  - If the user answers "No" to the NTP question in the installer menus,
>    please consider adding a dialog that shows the current time and asks
>    the user for a new time if it is wrong. (Possibly also ask about
>    writing the new time to the RTC using hwclock.)

I don't think I'm going to implement that part though.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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