Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)
On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:51:02 Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:13:47, Geronimo wrote:
> > > AFAIK this is only done when Windows is detected on that machine.
> >
> > Ok, that sounds reasonable.
> >
> > But then I miss an option, where I can overwrite that.
>
> For the installer?
Yes - of cause!
I know on installing gnome the installer asks, whether the hwclock is UTC.
I don't remember, if the question appeared on kde-installation, but if it
appeared and the user selects UTC, it is not reasonable, that the installer
silently ignores the selection and changes hwclock to local mode.
> It would be an additional hassle for people installing dual-boot
> machines (usually not experienced Debian users) and it is easy enough to
> change in /etc/default/rcS
On former systems there was a checkbox on desktop time configuration - so it
was easy to switch system from utc to local mode or back to utc. I don't know,
why this option disappeared.
As you can see in this thread /etc/default/rcS is not well known to be related
to time settings. I had to google too.
So I think, the former behaviour was weired for windows user and the current
behaviour is weired for linux users.
Time settings are already protected to superuser - so why not bring that
checkbox back to time settings dialog? May be with a little flyover help for
windows user explaining the sense of that checkbox?
For me - debian stands for the freedom of individual choice - it does not
silently force any user to something he don't want (like i.e. ubuntu does).
So its only consequent to have that choice during installation.
kind regards
Gero
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