Re: Initial setup redundancy

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----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 10:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > > So near as I can tell there is no problem that requires setting the
> > > timezone or even remotely correct date info in the installer.
> > 
> > That is simply not true, on ARM systems without an RTC having a
> > wrong date (of by a couple of years) is a big problem. Once the
> > date is of far enough (in either direction) SSL certificate
> > checks start to fail. And once that happens a lot of things break
> > including "dnf update"
> 
> Incorrect system time and sudden jumps in the system time (which can
> happen if the time is set wrong during install and corrected by NTP
> after install) can also cause issues with DHCP and Kerberos.

Which *still* aren't a problem because you'd already setup the timezone
in gnome-initial-setup by the time you encountered those.
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