Re: Anaconda wishlist

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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 01:47:34AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > This is generally only a problem when these turn out to have timestamps
> > in the future. That could be solved by automatically back-dating them
> > (several mechanisms possible) to at least the previous day (maybe a
> > time fixed per anaconda build?) but that would be confusing too.
> Timestamps are stored in absolute time (UTC), so as long as that time
> does not jump backwards (because of ntp or the user updating the clock)
> timestamps are never in the future. When you change the timezones only
> the way that timestamps are displayed is changed (*).

The problem is that the installer has no idea if the system time is in
UTC or in the local timezone (let alone just wrong).

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