Bug#540305: tzdata: Etc/GMT+offset form is arcane, confusing
Package: tzdata
Version: 2009g-0lenny1
Severity: wishlist
I recently wanted to set this system to local standard time, and ran
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata to do so. The local zone is 9 hours west of
UTC, -0900 conventionally, but tzdata requires seletcing Etc/GMT+9
instead. I understand this is an upstream, POSIX issue, but maybe
it's time to retire this form?
A note or hint about the nature of these timezone selections would be
helpful in the tzdata interface.
Ken
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
tzdata recommends no packages.
tzdata suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tzdata/Zones/Australia:
tzdata/Zones/Asia:
tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: GMT+9
tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
tzdata/Zones/Europe:
tzdata/Zones/Africa:
* tzdata/Zones/America: Anchorage
* tzdata/Areas: Etc
tzdata/Zones/Indian:
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