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casper package

  1. Bug #14241
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 14241

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(In reply to comment #11)
> For a permanent desktop installation, this is tolerable as it can be corrected
> once and it will remain so. On a live CD, it is not desireable. In either
> scenario, blindly assuming UTC is inappropriate when it can be set at install
 time.

It is too much of a burden to demand that the user set their time zone in order
to use the live CD; no other live CD I have seen does this. UTC is as good a
default as any (indeed, better than most).

Feel free to raise this for discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing list; this
bug is not the right place to discuss it.