Bootscreen weirdness

[Jean Gruneberg]

Hi all

Quick question.....

Running colony 4 with all updates on a laptop.  Have the 
pretty bootscreen as the system powers up.  However if I am 
not on a network connected to the internet - when it gets to 
the time sync. to ntp.ubuntu.com it obviously fails / times 
out and then it reverts back to the old white on black 
bootscreen for the rest of the boot.

So 2 questions - is this normal? Or just a bit of flakyness?

and

where do I disable the time checking at boot, really don't 
need my laptop at atomic clock precision ;-)

Ta

Jean