On Fri, 2017-07-07 at 04:21 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, 2017-07-06 at 10:56 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >
> > > So near as I can tell there is no problem that requires setting the
> > > timezone or even remotely correct date info in the installer.
> >
> > That is simply not true, on ARM systems without an RTC having a
> > wrong date (of by a couple of years) is a big problem. Once the
> > date is of far enough (in either direction) SSL certificate
> > checks start to fail. And once that happens a lot of things break
> > including "dnf update"
>
> Incorrect system time and sudden jumps in the system time (which can
> happen if the time is set wrong during install and corrected by NTP
> after install) can also cause issues with DHCP and Kerberos.
Which *still* aren't a problem because you'd already setup the timezone
in gnome-initial-setup by the time you encountered those.
Well, probably Kerberos, but not DHCP - the first wired network
connection is configured systemwide and already started by the time you
hit g-i-s, I believe.
--
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net
http://www.happyassassin.net