Re: Bug#717107: limited TZ choices
Daniel Pocock, le Wed 17 Jul 2013 10:21:22 +0200, a écrit :
> On 16/07/13 23:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Daniel Pocock (2013-07-16):
> >> Actually, it's a little confusing - I just went back in the installer
> >> and yes, I can choose that permutation and then I'm told "There is no
> >> locale defined for the country of language and country" and then I can
> >> manually get en_GB. So I can achieve the correct configuration.
> >>
> >> However, some users may simply choose GB as their country (I'm an
> >> Australian but I choose GB because Australians use British English and I
> >> personally spent a lot of time living there) - so while I don't see this
> >> as a severe issue, I think it would be helpful to let the user choose a
> >> country that they associate with rather than their exact location at the
> >> moment of installation. Then the TZ question should let them deviate
> >> further from the options for their country.
> > No, no, no. You really really should *read* instead of *assuming* random
> > things.
> >
> > Quoting the “Select your location” screen, first two sentences are:
> > | The selected location will be used to set your time zone and also for
> > | example to help select the system locale. Normally this should be the
> > | country where you live.
>
> I agree it is not fundamentally broken and for people who know
> Debian/Linux it is not hard to change later, but I still feel it is
> rigid and it would not be hard to let people alter the timezone after
> choosing a country
>
> To give another example, consider a British person setting up a PC in
> their holiday home in France: "country where you live" does not help
> them make the system work the way they want.
I do hope people can understand that "where you live" then means "where
the PC will live".
Let's not make things more complex for 99% people just because 1% people
can't figure out this. People already say Debian has too many questions.
Samuel
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