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Bug#448328: marked as done (Once local is selected then time zone choice is limited to local. Time zone should not be limited to local selected..)

From: Debian Bug Tracking System <owner(at)bugs.debian.org>
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 09:27:02 EDT

Your message dated Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:24:37 +0100 with message-id <200710281424.38184.elendil@planet.nl> and subject line Bug#448328: Once local is selected then time zone choice is limited to local. Time zone should not be limited to local selected.. has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Do you need help?

During installation of Debian, once the local is selected the time zone choices are limited to the local previously selected.

A user/installer may be in a foreign country and are required or want to set the local to her/his country while setting the time zone to the current country.

I think its best to remove this restriction and allow the user to chose whichever local and time zone combination they want.

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On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steven Demetrius wrote:
> During installation of Debian, once the local is selected the time zone
> choices are limited to the local previously selected.

> A user/installer may be in a foreign country and are required or want to
> set the local to her/his country while setting the time zone to the
> current country.

> I think its best to remove this restriction and allow the user to chose
> whichever local and time zone combination they want.

Do you need more help?

This has been discussed several times in the past and we think we have good reasons for the current functionality and that it is correct for >99.9% of installations. We have no intention of changing this.

If you really need to select a different timezone than one for the country you selected during installation, just run 'tzselect' (as root) after rebooting into the installed system.

Cheers,
FJP

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