On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 04:21 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > ----- 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. Well, probably Kerberos, but not DHCP - the first wired network connection is configured systemwide and already started by the time you hit g-i-s, I believe. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
