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and subject line Re: Bug#1040251: debian-installer: Add UTC timezone selection
for all locales
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regarding debian-installer: Add UTC timezone selection for all locales
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Package: debian-installer
Version: 20230607
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: b...@brentk.io
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
When using the text based debian installer, I would like to be able to
choose the UTC timezone (etc/UTC) as an option for my timezone. When
the timezones are displayed for selection, a set of timezones are
displayed based on the user's locale selection. Users should have the
option of selecting UTC in addition to the options present in their
locale.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
When choosing en_us for my locale during installation, I am only presented
with US specific time zones. If only presenting timezone associated with
the users locale, UTC should also be present, as folks use UTC in many
server deployments, regardless of their actual locale setting.
* What was the outcome of this action?
No UTC option is available in the installer.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
To have the UTC timezone available in addition to the locale specific
timezones.
In addition to the notes above, if using a preseed file, the timezone can
be specified regardless of local information. This is specifically for
interactive text based installation, where the system owner may want to
use UTC instead of a local time zone.
./brent
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Debian Release: 12.0
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APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-arm64 (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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Brent Kolasinski <b...@brentk.io> (2023-07-03):
> Even better. Thanks. Currently in the process of translating things
> from Red Hat land to Debian, and this is now an non-issue with this
> information. Appreciate the responsiveness.
>
> I think it is safe to close this item as I have paths forward for what
> I am wishing to accomplish.
Great, doing so then!
Cheers,
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