Re: tzsetup - UTC user question
On 03.02.2015 13:25, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! The person doing the install may not know what the clock is currently set to, especially when installing in a VM. Perhaps the screen should display the current machine time so they can correctly answer the question. Yes, this would help tremendously! Showing both would help a lot e.g. You selected %Z as local time zone. Local time is: %T %Z UTC time is: %T UTC Is this what you expected? Please bypass this screen if the user selected UTC as local time. I prefer to run my systems with UTC and a login group with :setenv=TZ=Foo/Bar,...: This avoids trouble with daylight saving and servers spread over multiple timezones. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: tzsetup - UTC user question
Hi! > The person doing the install may not know what the clock is currently set > to, especially when installing in a VM. Perhaps the screen should display > the current machine time so they can correctly answer the question. Yes, this would help tremendously! -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: tzsetup - UTC user question
On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 03:08:38PM +1000, Paul Koch wrote: > > Since the default option for "Select local or UTC clock" changed from > "No" to "Yes", we are seeing many customers who incorrectly answer this > question! > > This screws up things in our app because we store all data in UTC. > > A few observations... > > Most people don't know what "CMOS clock" is. Maybe change the wording > to "BIOS clock" or "Hardware Clock" ?? > > The person doing the install may not know what the clock is currently set > to, especially when installing in a VM. Perhaps the screen should display > the current machine time so they can correctly answer the question. > > Why was the default changed from "No" to "Yes" ? or change ntpd_sync_on_start="YES" to force correct time. in most case for hardware platform CMOS time contains garbage. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
