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[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 11:43:34PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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).
Right, but we were talking about the timezone selection spoke in the installer.
Getting the time wrong is an orthogonal issue.

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