On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 01:17:53PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Samstag, 12. April 2014, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > I just committed the fix. I have to admit that I'm not entirely happy > > with D-I prompting German users for a timezone which 99.9% of the > > country doesn't care about but it seems we can't do anything else > > until the Busingen area reverts their specific way to handle time. > > why can't we do anything about it? We do have the source, don't we? ;-) Yes, this prompting is at least 150% politically correct, so I'm opting to patch the upstream files tzdata/europe and tzdata/zone.tab:
#tzdata-2014b/debian/patches/busingen.diff ------------------------------------------ Description: Remove exception for 'Büsingen'. Until time zones differ, get rid of the annoying choice in Debian Installer. --- tzdata-2014b.orig/europe +++ tzdata-2014b/europe @@ -1263,7 +1263,6 @@ Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Ap # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03): # Busingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970. -Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Busingen # Georgia # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. --- tzdata-2014b.orig/zone.tab +++ tzdata-2014b/zone.tab @@ -168,8 +168,7 @@ CW +1211-06900 America/Curacao CX -1025+10543 Indian/Christmas CY +3510+03322 Asia/Nicosia CZ +5005+01426 Europe/Prague -DE +5230+01322 Europe/Berlin most locations -DE +4742+00841 Europe/Busingen Busingen +DE +5230+01322 Europe/Berlin DJ +1136+04309 Africa/Djibouti DK +5540+01235 Europe/Copenhagen DM +1518-06124 America/Dominica ------------------------------------------- I'm no expert, maybe other changes are required. Wolfgang
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