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Date:      Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:27:00 +0200
From:      Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>
To:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, Mark Delany <x9k@charlie.emu.st>
Subject:   Re: Removing "CMOS clock set to UTC" question
Message-ID:  <20240612222700.emGJ-jBv@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
In-Reply-To: <9c225c520e12b279ac6d19df7ebeec9f@bsdforge.com>
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Chris wrote in
 <9c225c520e12b279ac6d19df7ebeec9f@bsdforge.com>:
 |On 2024-06-12 13:44, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
 |> On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:08=E2=80=AFPM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> =
wrote:
 |>> On 2024-06-12 10:07, Mark Delany wrote:
 |>>> On 12Jun24, Ed Maste apparently wrote:
 |>>>> Our installer asks (via tzsetup):
 |>>>>
 |>>>>> Is this machine's CMOS clock set to UTC?  If it is set to local tim=
e,
 |>>>>> or you don't know, please choose NO here!
 ...

..and wouldn't it be possible to show the actual computer time,
ie, interpreted / shown as UTC?
I also feel unsure each and every time.  (UTC feels not natural to
me, .. but actually results in the desired behaviour.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)



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