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[Stephen John Smoogen]

On 5 October 2012 07:44, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com> 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.


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Stephen J Smoogen.
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