Quoting Joshua Swink (joshua.swink@gmail.com): > It's used to refer to the Americas. North and South America together > are known as the Americas. Or known by their users as "America" and, depending on the side of Panama Canal, that might be North, South, Latin, Central, etc. An sometimes even the country that names self "America". All of them of course being technically wrong, but so what? :-) > > > 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". So, you mean you want 30 translators to update their work just because you feel the need of nitpicking things? The field in the debconf screens is a direct reference to zoneinfo directories. So changing one means changing both....thus requesting upstream data to be changed, thus changing the settings on millions of machines, not all of them running Debian. I actually feel at least like objecting for a fix for lenny. For the record, "when you first install the operating system", tzdata's debconf question is not showed as this information is managed by Debian Installer, where the geographical location is dirst asked according to the chosen language and, when users pick up an "Other", according to the world's country list.....with countries sorted among "continents".....and these continents being "North America", "South America", "Central America". Actually, post-lenny, maybe fix this in the debconf screens, in order to be technically picky (and accepting to diverge from the zoneinfo directories), but probably not more.
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