Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas
In Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:07:24PM +0000, Joshua Swink wrote:
>> The file usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab refers to the Americas as
>> "America" 137 times.
>
> Do you mean that "America" is used to refer to either North America or
> South America each of those 137 times?
>
It's used to refer to the Americas. North and South America together
are known as the Americas.
> When is zone.tab displayed to the user?
During package configuration. When you first install the operating
system or enter "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata", the first question asked is
your geographic area. One of the options displayed is "America".
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Joshua Swink
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