Bug#488481: debian-installer: timezone is not freely choosable, it depends on country/language selected
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
I just installed from a Debian testing netinstall with the "lenny beta2
release" of the installer:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta2/i386/iso-cd/debian-LennyBeta2-i386-netinstall.iso
I chose "English" as language and the "United States" as country
(thought that effects the kind of English I'm gonna get).
Acutually I'm from Germany, but want a en_US system.
When I came to configuring the timezone, I could only choose among the
US timezones (Eastern, Mountain, Pacific, Alaska, ...).
There was no way to take "Central Europe/Berlin", which I wanted.
Imaging the case, that someone installes a computer, while beeing on
holiday in a different location. He probably wants to have the system
for the US, but at the moment, he wants the time like at the place he's
currently.
In any case ... the user should have the ability to choose any timezone
he wants. Please add an entry "other timezone" at the end of the list.
meillo
(btw: I filed this bug from an other system.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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