On Vi, 09 aug 19, 21:38:23, Russell L. Harris wrote: > The netinst cd image for Buster 10.0.0 does not offer a UTC option for > English -> United States. > > 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? It seems to me like you are confusing the hardware clock (the internal clock of the computer, if it has one), the system clock (the clock of the operating system) and the timezone (translating the system clock to the clock shown to users)[1]. On linux the system clock is always set to UTC. The time(stamps) shown to the user are translated on the fly depending on the system or user's timezone. In practice this means there is global timezone set by the administrator (usually during install, but can be changed with 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata') and users may also chose their own timezone as they prefer (think SSH server with users from all over the world). See for example the output of: $ ls -l /etc/issue vs $ TZ=UTC ls -l /etc/issue Unless you set your timezone to UTC during the install those two would show different timestamps. Depending on whether you are booting some other OS that uses local also clock internally (e.g. Windows) from the same hardware it might be necessary to set the hardware clock to the local time of the timezone you want displayed in that other OS. What problem are you trying to solve by having the timestamps of the initial installation be in UTC (which they are anyway)? [1] It certainly doesn't help that the installer is calling both system and hardware clock "system clock". Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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