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Bug#780419: tzdata: Please add the new Mexico/Sureste timezone to the Debian-specific package information



Quoting Gunnar Wolf (gwolf@gwolf.org):

> My dear and bubbly friend! As usual, you are right: The installer
> should display our four timezones.
> 
> And actually... It's not four — It's five :-P I don't know whether to
> file this as a new bug, or this one should suffice, but according to
> our official information:
> 
>    http://www.cenam.mx/Hora_oficial/
> 
> First issue: The "BajaNorte" and "BajaSur" names are not
> official. They should rather be:

Actually, tzsetup (the d-i component) relies on the TZ names in
tzdata for the real choices (those that are stored in debconf) and
uses the Choices-C trick to allow "translating" them in English:

Template: tzsetup/country/MX
Type: select
Choices-C: Mexico/General, Mexico/BajaSur, Mexico/BajaNorte
# :sl3:
__Choices: Central, Mountain, Pacific
Default: Mexico/General
Description: zone

That's consistent with tzdata:
cperrier@mykerinos:~/src/debian/debian-installer/trunk/packages/tzsetup/debian(master) $ dpkg -L tzdata|grep Mexi
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Mexico
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Mexico/BajaSur
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Mexico/General
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Mexico/BajaNorte

So users of English language will see:
- Central
- Mountain
- Pacific

As choices, if they pick "English" then "Mexico" in the installer.

Users of Spanish will see:
- Central
- Montañas
- Pacifico

I think that "Central" and "Pacific" should be left as is and maybe
BajaNorte be given "North-West" instead of Moutain and the new
"Sureste" (or whatever it is finally called in tzdata) be given
"South-East" (I'd suggest this preferrably to "Quintana Roo" in case
other adjacent states of Yucatan peninsula also change their TZ,
whichou would indeed make sense.

I wonder if the Quintana Roo change has been made so that the
gazillion of US tourists from US East Coast don't even have to change
their watches when they invade Cancun.....:-)


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