Keith Mitchell wrote: > > > Glynn Foster wrote: >> >> 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. > > This sounds like a feature that the GUI would use, too. Actually, it > sounds like a feature that would be more interesting for the GUI use > cases than the Text Install use cases. Would it be better to capture > this as an RFE that both GUI and Text Install could make use of? > I have been asking for this since day-1 of the Caiman project - it's in both the GUI and text-based installer UI specs. "The date and time should be defaulted from either the computer's current clock values or, if not available, from the network if possible."
Frank
