On 9/09/2009, at 12:41 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: >> On 5/09/2009, at 11:12 AM, Sue Sohn wrote: >>> We have posted the design document for the Text Installer at: >>> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/design_doc_v1.4.pdf >>> >>> Please review and provide comments by COB Tuesday, September 15th. >> Perhaps this discussion has been had already and I've missed it >> (apologies if so), but assuming we've got an active network >> connection, could we automatically probe for system time and date >> from some NTP server and have the opportunity of skipping a screen? > > From what I've seen, even the Mac OS X installer still prompts for > date and time. But the nice trick that both the newer Windows > installers and the OS X installer does is that it pre-defaults your > timezone based on your current 'geographic location' which I'm > guessing is derived from your current IP address and accessibility > to a geo-location server of some sort.
Yeah, I think the point is that they make it their mission to be as default-ly helpful to you as possible - so I agree that you should still be able to change your system time and date, I think the convenience of having it auto-detected wins out for me. Glynn
