Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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
>
> To me this looks reasonable. At least the installer should have enough
> info to get by.
>
> Note that I'm not very fluent on the details, so I might be missing
> something.
Here are the relevant pages [1] [2].
In a nutshell, it *should* work. But you lose the automatic DST change --
the OS expects then the HW clock to be "right" wrt local time.
But -- who knows? Perhaps the hwclock is read *before* the d-i settings
can be accounted for; perhaps the time will be right after installation
*and* reboot?
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html#s-multiboot-with
regards
- -- t
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