Control: reassign -1 clock-setup
On 05/10/2026 at 15:59, Michael wrote:
During installation, when giving an NTP server (e.g. 10.0.0.1), this
setting is used to initially set the local time, but it is not set for
systemd-timesyncd service, which is used by default.
This is a duplicate of bug #1029184.
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029184>
I guess they should be merged but they have different severities.
The NTP server given during installation should be recognized by
systemd-timesyncd.service.
e.g. in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/whatever.conf:
NTP=10.0.0.1
That was suggested in the other bug report too, but raises some questions:
- What if the default NTP server is used ? Should the installed system
use it or use its own defaults (which might be different) ?
- Same question if the NTP server is preseeded ?
- What if the NTP server is received via DHCP ?
- What if the installer fails to set the clock using the NTP server ?
