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 Australia/Melbourne. > > I would suggest doing what Ubuntu do for timezone & locale selection; > have a geographical map that you click on that picks you a timezone > and probable locale bits. It could even zoom in to a specific region > for selection of those weird timezones like Eyre Highway. Obviously > this would only work for g-i not the text-based installer. The > text-based installer could use the GNOME strategy of providing a > search box to input your city/country and a list of possibly > corresponding timezones/locales.
Then you have to maintain geographical coordinates for all those regions. And then you can get this sort of problem: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679.aspx This may not apply to selection of cities, but then if one can only select a city then it's not much of an improvement over the current list. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110323024429.gi2...@decadent.org.uk
