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Date:      Tue, 03 Feb 2015 15:35:34 +0100
From:      Crest <crest@rlwinm.de>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tzsetup - UTC user question
Message-ID:  <54D0DCB6.9080104@rlwinm.de>
In-Reply-To: <20150203122547.GM44537@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <20150203150838.5bcde9a9@akips.com> <20150203122547.GM44537@home.opsec.eu>

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On 03.02.2015 13:25, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> The person doing the install may not know what the clock is currently set
>> to, especially when installing in a VM.  Perhaps the screen should display
>> the current machine time so they can correctly answer the question.
> Yes, this would help tremendously!
>
Showing both would help a lot e.g.

You selected %Z as local time zone.
Local time is: %T %Z
UTC time is: %T UTC
Is this what you expected?

Please bypass this screen if the user selected UTC as local time.

I prefer to run my systems with UTC and a login group with 
:setenv=TZ=Foo/Bar,...:
This avoids trouble with daylight saving and servers spread over 
multiple timezones.



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