[Bug 946132] Re: no (obvious) option to set hwclock to utc during 12.04 alternate install
Jane Atkinson
946132 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Mar 26 21:12:03 UTC 2012
There may still be a problem with this. The last install that I did, I
chose "UTC" from the list of options. When I booted to the desktop, I
set the timezone using date and time settings. Then I thought to check
/etc/default/rcS -- and it showed "UTC=no"
I don't know if the file always had "UTC=no" in it, or whether it got
written to when I set the timezone. I'll check more closely after the
next install. Either way, I find it a bit disconcerting.
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Title:
no (obvious) option to set hwclock to utc during 12.04 alternate
install
Status in “clock-setup” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
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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