Package: tzdata
Version: 2010o-1
Severity: minor
I understand that in the United States of America, the preferred way to
set the time zone is America/Chicago, or America/Los_Angeles. That's
all fine, but what about Puerto Rico? As far as as I know, Puerto Rico
is still part of the United States, and San Juan is the largest city in
Puerto Rico. Where is America/San_Juan? Maybe the problem is that
there is a San Juan in almost every Latin American country. If we
decide to go with Region/City, then we have to keep it consistent.
Also, since Puerto Rico is in the United States, and is in the Atlantic
time zone, there should be a US/Atlantic time zone.
Another inconsistency. Maybe needs a separate bug report. I see
America/Aruba and America/Curacao. Where is America/Bonaire?
Then there is the question of America/Detroit. I travel to the East
Coast of the US. Do I pick America/Detroit or America/New_York? What's
the difference and how would I know? Should I pick America/Detroit only
when I am in Detroit, or when I am in Michigan, or on the East Coast?
I personally think that the whole Region/City is garbage. If I live in
Houson, Texas, why do I have to pick Chicago (1000 miles away)? After
all, Denver is only 880 miles away. How am I even supposed to know that
Chicago is in the Central time zone and not Eastern? I like to old
system where I just pick the time zone US/Central, but I am offended
that the system now changes it to America/Chicago.
And speaking of America/Denver... Which Denver is it? There are eight
Denvers in the United States.
I know that some of this has been discussed in the past. And I know the
reply will have something to do with upstream. I feel my complaints are
legitimate; although some more than others.
Thanks,
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36 Debian configuration
management sy
tzdata recommends no packages.
tzdata suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tzdata/Zones/Australia:
* tzdata/Zones/US: Central
tzdata/Zones/Asia:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
* tzdata/Zones/SystemV: AST4
tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
tzdata/Zones/Europe:
tzdata/Zones/Africa:
* tzdata/Zones/America: Chicago
* tzdata/Areas: SystemV
tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
tzdata/Zones/Indian:
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