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..)

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Sunday 28 October 2007, Steven Demetrius wrote:
> What are your reasons?

We allow users to select a country separately from the language they wish to 
use. We expect them to select the country for which they intend the system 
to be set up. Selection of the country country will automatically lead to 
the installer either selecting the correct time zone for that country or 
offering a selection from the possible timezones for that country.

This is both intuitive, obviously correct for the vast majority of installs 
and saves us having to create a complex selection dialog that would need to 
include yet another list of continents and countries.

If a user wants a different time zone (one that "conflicts" with the country 
they said they wanted the system set up for), they can change it using 
tzselect after the installation.
And if you really want to force some strange time zone during installation, 
that is even possible using preseeding (either using a preconfiguration 
file or from the boot prompt).

Note that this is the last mail I will be writing about this. As I said, 
we've discussed this extensively in the past and made our choice how to 
implement this. For us, you are not bringing anything new to the 
discussion.

Cheers,
FJP