Bug#448328: closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> (Re: Bug#448328: Once local is selected then time zone choice is limited to local. Time zone should not be limited to local selected..)

From: Steven Demetrius <steven.demetrius(at)fiwwi.com>
Date: Sun Oct 28 2007 - 13:54:40 EDT

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What are your reasons?

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the user-setup package:
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> #448328: Once local is selected then time zone choice is limited to local. Time zone should not be limited to local selected..
>
> It has been closed by Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>.
>
> Their explanation is attached below. If this explanation is
> unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
> message then please contact Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> by replying
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> Debian bug tracking system administrator
> (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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> Subject:
> Re: Bug#448328: Once local is selected then time zone choice is limited
> to local. Time zone should not be limited to local selected..
> From:
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
> Date:
> Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:24:37 +0100
> To:
> Steven Demetrius <steven.demetrius@fiwwi.com>, 448328-done@bugs.debian.org
>
> To:
> Steven Demetrius <steven.demetrius@fiwwi.com>, 448328-done@bugs.debian.org
>
>
> 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.

>
> 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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