[Bug 946132] [NEW] no (obvious) option to set hwclock to utc during 12.04 alternate install

[Jane Atkinson]

Public bug reported:

When installing 12.04 from an alternate CD, the time setting dialogue
checks that my timezone is correct, but it doesn't ask about whether the
hardware clock should be set to local time or UTC.

The problem has been there since, possibly, the previous release; I
initially upgraded to Precise from an Oneiric install, and after a lot
of head-scratching, discovered that hwclock set to local time was
causing problems such as unexpected errors on a shared partition, due (I
presume) to timestamps being wrong.

I run Lucid on the same machine, and also Windows Vista with a fix to
read the hwclock as UTC. After running Precise and then booting into
Vista, I was getting the time showing as 13 hrs ahead of actual time.
This corresponds to the 13 hrs that NZDT is ahead of UTC.

I did a fresh install of Precise from the Beta1 alternate CD and the
same thing has happened.

If people who want to use UTC are supposed to answer "no" to the
question about local timezone and then set UTC manually, it is not made
clear during the installation.

** Affects: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  no (obvious) option to set hwclock to utc during 12.04 alternate
  install

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When installing 12.04 from an alternate CD, the time setting dialogue
  checks that my timezone is correct, but it doesn't ask about whether
  the hardware clock should be set to local time or UTC.

  The problem has been there since, possibly, the previous release; I
  initially upgraded to Precise from an Oneiric install, and after a lot
  of head-scratching, discovered that hwclock set to local time was
  causing problems such as unexpected errors on a shared partition, due
  (I presume) to timestamps being wrong.

  I run Lucid on the same machine, and also Windows Vista with a fix to
  read the hwclock as UTC. After running Precise and then booting into
  Vista, I was getting the time showing as 13 hrs ahead of actual time.
  This corresponds to the 13 hrs that NZDT is ahead of UTC.

  I did a fresh install of Precise from the Beta1 alternate CD and the
  same thing has happened.

  If people who want to use UTC are supposed to answer "no" to the
  question about local timezone and then set UTC manually, it is not
  made clear during the installation.

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