Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:35:34 +0100 From: Crest <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup - UTC user question Message-ID: <54D0DCB6.9080104@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <20150203122547.GM44537@home.opsec.eu> References: <20150203150838.5bcde9a9@akips.com> <20150203122547.GM44537@home.opsec.eu>
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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.
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