Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:15:00 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzsetup disregards setting TZ to UTC Message-ID: <4D90EC44.9030209@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C1C73E8-7FAC-4039-B627-C244BA205A9F@gsoft.com.au> <AANLkTina75LmxFNctQEMtRmpU3dQEKaHYEAKZ7v1BaK7@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimuNmLysuGgnAtDa8Lfs-gwWJn0fzXC87v3PxWn@mail.gmail.com> <4D906C3F.8040404@FreeBSD.org>
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On 28/03/2011 12:08, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Perhaps the installer should instead:
>
> display CMOS and system time, and ask which one of them is correct, and
> offer a third option to actually correct the timezone or time if neither
> is correct.
>
> That's much easier to grasp.
... and a 4th option for when both are correct. Happens quite a lot
round these parts in the winter. However, there are very few people for
whom DST is the same as UTC.
Cheers,
Matthew
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