On 5 October 2012 07:44, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg(a)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.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
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"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
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