On Monday, 13. Dec 2010, 16:51:02 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 13 dec 10, 16:13:47, Geronimo wrote: > > > AFAIK this is only done when Windows is detected on that machine. > > > > Ok, that sounds reasonable. > > > > But then I miss an option, where I can overwrite that. > > For the installer?
Yes - of cause! I know on installing gnome the installer asks, whether the hwclock is UTC. I don't remember, if the question appeared on kde-installation, but if it appeared and the user selects UTC, it is not reasonable, that the installer silently ignores the selection and changes hwclock to local mode. > It would be an additional hassle for people installing dual-boot > machines (usually not experienced Debian users) and it is easy enough to > change in /etc/default/rcS On former systems there was a checkbox on desktop time configuration - so it was easy to switch system from utc to local mode or back to utc. I don't know, why this option disappeared. As you can see in this thread /etc/default/rcS is not well known to be related to time settings. I had to google too. So I think, the former behaviour was weired for windows user and the current behaviour is weired for linux users. Time settings are already protected to superuser - so why not bring that checkbox back to time settings dialog? May be with a little flyover help for windows user explaining the sense of that checkbox? For me - debian stands for the freedom of individual choice - it does not silently force any user to something he don't want (like i.e. ubuntu does). So its only consequent to have that choice during installation. kind regards Gero -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
