Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:21:49 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> To: Paul Koch <paul.koch@akips.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup - UTC user question Message-ID: <20150203122149.GA29901@zxy.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <20150203150838.5bcde9a9@akips.com> References: <20150203150838.5bcde9a9@akips.com>
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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.
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