Solutions: a) set the time by hand (KISS, maybe put a hint on installation guide?) date -s "13:46 CEST" result in: Sun Mar 30 11:46 UTC 2008 which is the now correct UTC time. b) put tzdata package on ISO, so the user could use tzselect. Hint could also be given in instalation guide. Or we make it more comfortable (handholding the user) and put this as a menu in installer("Set your timezone"). The $TZ env var could then also used by the installer to initial set TIMEZONE in rc.conf as we do it with KEYMAP. As a side effect we could reduce a lot of postings in forums where users not set this correctly. But that need perhaps discussion, i feel it a little bit to handholding.
On Sunday 30 March 2008 15:20:38 Gerhard Brauer wrote: thanks. i vote for putting a) in the instalation guide so new users dont get scared by this (imo) non issue. Since i expect people to actually read fsck ouput, i guess it's at least fair telling them in the install guide that this is not an actual problem, or can be fixed by setting the time. actually,... wasnt there noted in the guide that you have to link your timezone somewhere? -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani