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Bug#765976: tzsetup: please don't offer time zone selection for Germany



Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> (2014-10-22):
> Quoting Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org):
> > Most countries have only one timezone, and for those the country-zone
> > mapping is stored in the tzmap file (automatically generated from
> > zone.tab), and no question is asked. Some countries have multiple timezones
> > listed in zone.tab, but these are only of historical interest (ie, to get
> > the correct time at some point in the past), and are thus not worth
> > bothering the user about during install. For these the tzmap.override file
> > can be used to force a whole country to one zone.
> 
> 
> For the record, I'm in favour of applying the Büsingen exception to
> tzmap.override. I was not, in the beginning of this issue, but then
> reconsidered that opinion when looking deeper at what we're already
> doing for many other places in the world.
> 
> I applied the patch in git and, unless there is a strong objection,
> I'll upload tzsetup with that patch, ASAP.

No objection.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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