On 5 October 2012 07:44, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/05/2012 01:37 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> No the one in the installer is usually more useful than the one in >> Firstboot. There is still a lot of buggy hardware out there where the >> clock in the bios is crap. This can lead to the installed system >> having files installed in the year 1900, 1960, 2100, or some similar >> weird thing. Let us say administering such a system later is a pain in >> the but. The worst is that if you go into the BIOS.. you think you >> have the right time.. and you don't know it until the installer asks >> you if the time Jan 01, 1900 is the correct one for your system. > > > I assume this is an extremely old hardware that does this ( +5 years which > we may not official support anyway )? I had this with a new system last year so I expect it still happens. The "fix" was a BIOS update afterwords.. but I wouldn't have known about it until after the installer. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "Don't derail a useful feature for the 99% because you're not in it." Linus Torvalds "Years ago my mother used to say to me,... Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me." —James Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
