From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 4 19:26:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5FC337B407; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g552O9f51716; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:24:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:24:09 -0400 From: Mike Barcroft To: Garrett Wollman Cc: olgeni@uli.it, qa@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall, time zone selection and /etc/X11 Message-ID: <20020604222409.H98086@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020604214716.W63192-100000@olgeni.olgeni> <200206042033.g54KXQ36025588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200206042033.g54KXQ36025588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > In article <20020604214716.W63192-100000@olgeni.olgeni> you write: > > >Just nitpicking... maybe the "Does the XXX abbreviation look > >reasonable" dialog box should be a character taller, so the separator > >will not bump into the text line =) > > Actually, it should say something like: > > Based on your current system time and the timezone > you just selected, the time is now: > > Tue Jun 4 16:27:40 EDT 2002 > > [OK] [Try another timezone] [Change system time] > > Originally, tzsetup would try to display the date, and ask if it > looked correct, but it frequently got it wrong (particularly when the > `wall CMOS' option was selected) and even more frequently confused > users who had misadjusted clocks. > > If anyone wants to fix this, I have no proprietary feelings whatsoever > towards `tzsetup'. It would be really neat if you could also sync to a time server at this point. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message