Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro

From	tomas@tuxteam.de
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Time quandry when dual boot with WinXP Pro
Date	2016-10-21 21:30 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:21:17AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 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
> 
> To me this looks reasonable. At least the installer should have enough
> info to get by.
> 
> Note that I'm not very fluent on the details, so I might be missing
> something.

Here are the relevant pages [1] [2].

In a nutshell, it *should* work. But you lose the automatic DST change --
the OS expects then the HW clock to be "right" wrt local time.

But -- who knows? Perhaps the hwclock is read *before* the d-i settings
can be accounted for; perhaps the time will be right after installation
*and* reboot?

[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/system-administrator/ch-sysadmin-time.html#s-multiboot-with

regards
- -- t
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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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