On Thursday 04 January 2007 17:16, Francesco Poli wrote: > But nothing asked me whether the hardware clock was in local time or > UTC! > It was silently assumed to be UTC, which, BTW, was I what I wanted it > to be, but forgot to set accordingly in the BIOS configuration menu.
It is asked in expert mode. For default installs, we have a smart algorithm that determines the likely value. Roughly: if the box also has Windows installed, local time is assumed; if only Linux, UTC is assumed; in some cases the question is asked. If the time is incorrect after the boot, the user is expected to either run 'date', or change the UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS. Cheers, FJP
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