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Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

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On 10/21/2016 8:32 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 08:09:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I'm creating a preseed.cfg file for installing Debian 8.6 in a
>> dual-boot enviroment with some version of MS Windows. There are two
>> distinct use cases:
>>     1. Two of my machines with WinXP Pro SP3
>>     2. A remote (~1000 miles]friend with several machines - some with
>> WinXP, others with
>>        Windows 10 or later.
>
> Uh, oh. Microsoft and time handling. This won't end well :-/

*ROFL*

>>     3. Debian 8.6 w MATE installed from DVD 1 of 13 with aid of custom preseed.cfg
>>        _displays_ a time 5 hours earlier.
>>        The _display_ is independent of whether
>>             d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
>>                         *OR*
>>             d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
>
> This observation alone suggests strongly that this installation
> "thinks" it should use the UTC (or any equivalent) time zone
> to fudge back its way from the hardware clock to the UTC.
>
> What is the value of d-i time/zone?

Relavant lines of preseed.cfg are

### Clock and time zone setup
#d-i clock-setup/utc boolean false
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string US/Central
d-i clock-setup/ntp boolean false



>
> regards
> - -- tomás
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Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-21 15:20 +0200
  Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-21 15:30 +0200
    Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-21 16:50 +0200
    Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-21 17:10 +0200
      Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-10-21 19:50 +0200
        Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-22 17:10 +0200
          Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-10-22 17:10 +0200
          Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-10-22 17:50 +0200
            Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-23 04:50 +0200
  Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-21 15:40 +0200
    Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-21 16:30 +0200
      Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-10-21 18:50 +0200
        Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-21 20:20 +0200
          Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-21 21:20 +0200
      Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-21 21:20 +0200
        Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro tomas@tuxteam.de - 2016-10-21 21:30 +0200
          Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-21 22:20 +0200
            Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-21 22:40 +0200
  Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-10-22 22:10 +0200
    Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-22 22:20 +0200
      Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-10-22 22:20 +0200
        [REPOST] Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 14:20 +0200
        Side effects of specifying use of NTP on installation???? - was [Re:  Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-25 14:20 +0200
  Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 16:50 +0200
    Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-29 17:30 +0200
      Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 18:20 +0200

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