In expert install, user not prompted whether to set clock to UTC or local time

[Tim Hull]

I recently did an Ubuntu expert install, partially because I wanted to test
the behavior when Ubuntu was set to use local time on the system clock. I got asked
many questions I was not asked in a standard install (as could be expected), however
I did not get asked whether my hardware clock was UTC or local time. On an
expert install, this should be asked (since the user explicitly wants more
control over the install).

[Lok (lachmacn)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I recently did an Ubuntu expert install, partially because I wanted to test
> the behavior when Ubuntu was set to use local time on the system clock. I got
asked
> many questions I was not asked in a standard install (as could be expected),
however
> I did not get asked whether my hardware clock was UTC or local time. On an
> expert install, this should be asked (since the user explicitly wants more
> control over the install).

It did ask me...

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

Apparently fixed, please reopen if this is not the case.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Reopening. This depends on the operating systems you have installed, and I need
to look into clock-setup's behaviour in dapper.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

OK, it looks like clock-setup in dapper behaves correctly here, so this is fixed
in dapper (although not in breezy). The original bug was due to the awful hack I
had to use to suppress the UTC question in the default installation path, which
is now done much more cleanly.