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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] installation timezone
Date: Mon,  6 Mar 2006 10:57:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2304b97b3dbb302e8c75943bfdeed581@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82c890d00603060420y14288dccj5d140671c81c7baf@mail.gmail.com>

> I would like to be able to select the time zone when installing or at
> least removing the -L from the TIMESYNC options, becouse i always have
> a venti error telling about arena creation time is in the future or
> something like that.
>
> is -L option used with timesync in the termrc used in the install iso
> or it is just in termrc of the installed system?

The install doesn't even run timesync.  It just assumes
that the local clock is in GMT (the default when not running
timesync).  This doesn't seem like much of a big deal.
I'd rather tell venti not to print if it's only a few hours difference.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-06 12:20 Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 15:57 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-06 16:08   ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 16:24     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-06 16:35       ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-06 16:51       ` uriel
2006-03-06 16:57         ` Russ Cox
2006-03-06 16:59         ` Charles Forsyth

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