Re: Installing Squeeze: Cannot choose time zone (two issues)

On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:39:40 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:16:19 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:

Issue One:
I prefer to install Linux distros in English then configure each user
for his own language. While installing Squeeze I do not have the
choice of a time zone for Israel, only US time zones. The installer
mentions that to display other time zones I must change language. This
is absurd.

Issue Two:
When I go back and choose the Hebrew language, I _still_ do not get an
option for an Israeli time zone. The time zones available have
switched from seven or eight US time zones to (translated from Hebrew)
"US", "Mexico", "Saint Peter and Miklon", and "Canada".

Both issues are weird :-?

You might find useful these two posts:

Changes for Squeeze in Debian Installer
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/01/msg00002.html

timezone in squeeze installer
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/05/msg00001.html


What appears impossible(?) is to select 'english us' and then a timezone
in Mexico. Or any combination of such. Once you select the former you
are stuck with the latter.

It's months since I've installed squeeze so I can't say for sure. Does
this happen with the expert installer? :-?

Binding a timezone to a location seems quite logic, but binding -
enforcing- a locale to specific timezone (or viceversa) seems to be
completely wrong, IMO. If it's reproducible with the latest installer I
think it's worth reporting.

Greetings,

--
Camaleón


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