On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 23:41, Gordon Rowell wrote: > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:52:13PM +1000, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 07:51, Dan York wrote: > > > - The timezone can now be set during system installation. The default > > > timezone is US/Eastern (for English installs) and Canada/Eastern > > > (for Canadian French installs). > > > > Why don't you try getting it from another machine first? > > One of the fields in SMB can provide this. Unfortunately I don't remember > > the details. Will try to dredge it up. > > We can't assume that there are any other machines on the network. You don't need to _rely_ on this. However it looks very cool when the freshly installed e-smith server can guess where it is. At least, that was Tridge's concept for a Quantum SnapServer :) And there probably will be another machine running windows....
> The defaults are reasonable for the languages, but there are picklists > in the installer if you want to choose another timezone. The defaults suck if you're not an American. Brad -- http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black. -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
