Mogens Kjaer: >> Look at the time in the BIOS. Timothy Murphy: > I looked in the BIOS, and there is nothing there to say if it is or is > not using UTC. Of course not, the hardware clock is a very simple thing, it's just a clock with a basic calendar, no more. But you'd see whether it shows local time, or something else. >> You would use UTC=YES on a Linux-only machine, and UTC=NO >> on a dualboot (Linux/Windows) machine. > If that is a correct answer, then this simply confirms my view > that this is a silly question to ask during installation. When else should it ask that question? > How is the user meant to determine the answer to the question? A user installing an OS is supposed to know what they're doing. Those dual-booting, even more so. If they don't, they should find out. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
