Bug#1043557: d-i.debian.org: permit selecting UTC as timezone in non-expert installer

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix


Hi,

t41qrq+5xstzbfc382u8@cs.email wrote (Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:43:45 +0000):
> When using the non-expert text installer from a netinst cd of debian bookworm 12.1, only the timezones in the attached picture are displayed for selection.
> 
> Please make it possible to select UTC as the timezone, for any language/locale/region the user may have selected in previous steps of the installation.
> 
> UTC is available for selection in the expert text installer.

This discussion already happened when introducing the UTC option for expert
mode back in 2009 (see #442856).

The arguments did not change since then, mainly:
- UTC will most likely be a corner case, an option for experts, not for the 
  majority of users.
- Adding UTC for all countries in the default install, would add one more
  question to be shown in all (!) installations for those countries, which 
  only have one timezone.

Asking one more question to all people, just to make a rare used option 
available to some experts don't seems like a good option to me.

So I'm marking this bug as wontfix.


Holger



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