control: reassign -1 tzsetup On 2015-03-14 16:16, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Aurelien Jarno (aurelien@aurel32.net): > > > Yes, this timezone is defined as America/Cancun, and it appears in the > > list of cities available when selecting the America region. For quite > > a lot of time, the timezones are not defined anymore by country/region > > but by the main city in the area. The backward file defines links for > > timezones predating this way of doing. > > > > I therefore don't think this patch is necessary, could you please tell > > me which problem do you try to solve there? > > Aurélien is right, indeed. No need to add anything. > > WRT the installer, we still have a problem, though as we only list 3 > timezones with (imho) inappropriate English names, while we should > have 5 different zones : > > Mexico/BajaNorte (aka America/Ensenada) named "North-West" as English > short name and translated to Spanish as "Noroeste" > Mexico/BajaSur (aka America/Mazatlan) named "Pacific" as English > short name and translated to Spanish as "Pacífico" > Mexico/Hermosillo named "Sonora" as English > short name and translated to Spanish as "Sonora" > Mexico/General (aka America/Mexico_City) named "Central" as English > short name and translated to Spanish as "Centro" > Mexico/Cancun named "South-East" as English > short name and translated to Spanish as "Sureste" > > This way, users of English language in D-I will see: > > North-West > Pacific > Sonora > Central > South-East > > And users of Spanish will see > > Noroeste > Pacífico > Sonora > Centro > Sureste > > It is my understanding that tzdata doesn't need any fix, but tzsetup > does. > > As soon as we agree on the right fix in tzsetup, I'd suggest > reassigning this bug report to it and then I'll fix it. I'll also fix > the Spanish translation of D-I without waiting for the Spanish l10n > team so that we can guarantee that users of Spanish can see properly > translated timezone names (this is much less important for users of > other languages, for obvious reasons). Given the problems lies in tzsetup instead of tzdata, I am reassigning the bug there. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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