-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 09:11:07PM +0200, to...@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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgKa18ACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka/wgCeNe9AumWLYJ3WBIG9eQuB1SLc fl4An0dEE+FYI91/RXelQQF1tVcXqzO1 =XANW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
