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[Wouter Stomp]

On 7/14/05, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> > - And also the installer does not ask you ( I am not sure about this
> > please correct me ) for the time server you want to use or if I want to
> > use NTP at all, this is because it takes some time to startup Ubuntu (
> > pour network connection, no network etc... )
> 
> It definitely shouldn't ask (again, imagine a new user, "what's a time
> server?"), but we should time out more quickly here.
> 

When is it done at all when booting? I don't expect my computer's time
to be very wrong every time it has been turned off and on... It could
also be done later after booting (just like checking for updates). And
what's even more confusing is that gnome says synchronisation is off,
even when the clock is synchronised evey time you boot the computer.
And then when you enable it in gnome, you have to install two more
packages (to do something that is already being done)... that is just
crazy and very confusing for end-users. Wouldn't it be better to leave
it all up to gnome (enable it in gnome by default), perhaps only leave
it in the boot process for the server install?

Wouter.