Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 10/21/2016 8:32 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a
> > dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two
> > distinct use cases:
> >     1. Two of my machines with WinXP Pro SP3
> >     2. A remote (~1000 miles]friend with several machines - some with
> > WinXP, others with
> >        Windows 10 or later.
>
> Uh, oh. Microsoft and time handling. This won't end well :-/

*ROFL*

> >     3. Debian 8.6 w MATE installed from DVD 1 of 13 with aid of custom preseed.cfg
> >        _displays_ a time 5 hours earlier.
> >        The _display_ is independent of whether
> >             d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
> >                         *OR*
> >             d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
>
> This observation alone suggests strongly that this installation
> "thinks" it should use the UTC (or any equivalent) time zone
> to fudge back its way from the hardware clock to the UTC.
>
> What is the value of d-i time/zone?

Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are

### Clock and time zone setup
#d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string US/Central
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean false



> regards
> - -- tomás
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