[Bug 797665] New: YaST insists on UTC with Windows present
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797665 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797665#c0 Summary: YaST insists on UTC with Windows present Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: dfreeman@ieee.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 I have installed Windows 7 after installing openSUSE 12.2. Hardware clock keeps reverting to UTC, as mentioned in other bugs. This is slowly making me homicidal :) Now, when I uncheck the UTC box in YaST2, I get the message: "You selected local time, but only Linux seems to be installed on your system. In such case, it is strongly recommended to use UTC, and to click Cancel. If you want to keep local time, you must adjust the CMOS clock twice the year because of Day Light Saving switches. If you miss to adjust the clock, backups may fail, your mail system may drop mail messages, etc. If you use UTC, Linux will adjust the time automatically. Do you want to continue with your selection (local time)?" Frankly, this is rubbish. Please revert all changes relating to UTC vs local time since 12.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install openSUSE 12.2 2. Try to use it 3. Become angry Actual Results: Broken OS Expected Results: Great OS -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Jiaying ren
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Jiří Suchomel
Reverting to UTC might be bug #791485.
Yes, likely. But still, yast2 timezone should be able to find out windows partition. Could you attach the log files? See http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Jiří Suchomel
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Jiří Suchomel
These are the two issues, IMHO:
* YaST incorrectly asserts that Windows is not installed
I will add the test for Windows also for running system. It will slow the start of YaST somehow, but running yast2 timezone is not something we do every day.
* The pop-up informs me that use of local time is broken
I'm afraid I cannot remove the popup at all. (However, windows users should not see it) It does not really say the use of local time is broken, but I agree it strongly leads user not to use local time... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #12 from Dr. Werner Fink
It does not really say the use of local time is broken, but I agree it strongly leads user not to use local time...
This is correct and hopefully it prevent people from using local time in CMOS as the natural correct way is UTC as this is the only way to become the kernel to have the correct time reference standard which is UTC. It also avoids that the user has to correct twice a year the CMOS clock at Daylight Saving Time switch (Sommer/Winterzeit) *before* the kernel has booted the system and *before* the file system check and mount command do touch the root file system to avoid wrong time stamps [1]. [1]: Compare with https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_the_clock -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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