Re: buster netinst timezone
On Fri, 9 Aug 2019 21:38:23 +0000
"Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> wrote:
> The netinst cd image for Buster 10.0.0 does not offer a UTC option for
> English -> United States.
Mine did. IIRC it was part of the timezone choice at install. Last in
the list. Stock Buster Netinstall CD. I don't use UTC, but local time
instead since at one time I used to dual boot this system with
WindowsXP, and it didn't play nice with UTC. Never changed it after I
moved XP to Virtualbox.
> This is a critical bug; every installer without exception should offer UTC.
>
> Is there a work-around, so that files written during the
> installation process have the correct datestamp?
>
> One suggestion was to select English -> Great Britain, but this
> possibly has other consequences regarding locale settings.
I used the "text" install option instead of the artsy-fartsy GUI
to install Buster in Virtualbox. Install went fine. No problems.
I did both a basic terminal only system which I later added xorg and the
Openbox window manager, etc. and a default LXDE desktop as another VM.
I avoid GNOME like the plague. Stopped using it when I left Fedora 12
behind in favor of Debian some . . . what? . . . 7 years ago?
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