Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
Hello,
I need some help from Australian people.
I finally settled for listing states. That seems to be the most
unnderstandable option (including for foreigners who happen to arrive
in AU).
This will also be consistent with some other
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
I finally settled for listing states. That seems to be the most
unnderstandable option (including for foreigners who happen to arrive
in AU).
By doing so you diverge from standard timezone nomenclature. Not to say
that's forbidden, but it's a
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:59:19PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
Commonwealth Games. In Victoria we were on a different timezone to that
of the folks in New South Wales.
Not really relevant, but no we weren't. NSW changed too.
Hamish
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:18PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
That's indeed insane..:-). Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria),
Sydney (NSW) and Canberra (ACT) have the *exact* same time rules
(including DST).
But they didn't always; and with
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast
timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so
we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection
of Australia/Sydney vs Australia/Melbourne.
Sure.
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
(Regardless of what you choose, FYI it's “New South Wales”, no hyphen.)
Why do you prefer that? Australia is highly urbanised; we're accustomed
to
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also largely misunderstood, as often two cities with
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also
Quoting Ben Finney (ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au):
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
(Regardless of what you choose, FYI it's “New South Wales”, no hyphen.)
Sure. If I finally decide
Hello,
I need some help from Australian people.
Debian Installer includes (in tzsetup) a way to choose a timezone
among multiple timezones, when users have picked a country that has
more than one timezone.
I'm currently working on this as things change constantly in such
matters.
As
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:54:05 +0100, Christian PERRIER writes:
I currently propose to offer the following choices in D-I:
Victoria, ACT, NSW, Tasmania (Eastern Time, DST)
Queensland (Eastern Time, no DST)
South Australia (Central Time, DST)
Northern Territory (Central Time, no DST)
Western
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:18PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
[...]
That's indeed insane..:-). Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria),
Sydney (NSW) and Canberra (ACT) have the *exact* same time rules
(including DST).
But they didn't always; and with the
I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast
timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so
we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection
of Australia/Sydney vs Australia/Melbourne.
I would suggest doing what Ubuntu do for
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:18:04AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast
timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so
we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection
of Australia/Sydney vs
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