Bug#717107: limited TZ choices

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Daniel Pocock (2013-07-17):
> 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

It would not be hard to ask 1000 questions just to make sure we give
each and every option one might possibly want to tweak.

> 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.

Picking a different timezone in her clock settings in whatever
environment would work.	Like, say, click the date/time area in Gnome,
choose “parameters” and select a different timezone.

(Also, last I checked, d-i isn't here to accomodate every convoluted
scenario you can come up with.)

> Another option may be changing the text: "Normally this should be the
> country where the computer is physically located or physically
> accessed.  This will not limit you to using the language or locale of
> the country you choose and the installer will proceed in the current
> language."

I'm not sure that's an improvement.

Mraw,
KiBi.