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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 22:24:09 -0400
From:      Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        olgeni@uli.it, qa@freebsd.org, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sysinstall, time zone selection and /etc/X11
Message-ID:  <20020604222409.H98086@espresso.q9media.com>
In-Reply-To: <200206042033.g54KXQ36025588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0400
References:  <20020604214716.W63192-100000@olgeni.olgeni> <200206042033.g54KXQ36025588@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> writes:
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> In article <20020604214716.W63192-100000@olgeni.olgeni> you write:
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> >Just nitpicking... maybe the "Does the XXX abbreviation look
> >reasonable" dialog box should be a character taller, so the separator
> >will not bump into the text line =)
> 
> Actually, it should say something like:
> 
> 	Based on your current system time and the timezone
> 	you just selected, the time is now:
> 
> 		Tue Jun  4 16:27:40 EDT 2002
> 
> 	[OK]	[Try another timezone]	[Change system time]
> 
> Originally, tzsetup would try to display the date, and ask if it
> looked correct, but it frequently got it wrong (particularly when the
> `wall CMOS' option was selected) and even more frequently confused
> users who had misadjusted clocks.
> 
> If anyone wants to fix this, I have no proprietary feelings whatsoever
> towards `tzsetup'.

It would be really neat if you could also sync to a time server at
this point.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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