On Lu, 13 dec 10, 17:17:51, Geronimo wrote: > 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. I doubt it depends on package(s) selected, but rather on whether you do an expert install or not. > > 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. Do you mean the mini-config done by KDE3 at first start? That can have no influence on the system clock, only on user timezone. Or do you mean the old base-config program, back when the installation was done in two steps (sarge was the last release to use this IIRC)? > 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? The question is certainly in the installer, I checked the translation files (.po), but it is probably shown only on expert installs. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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