Package: tzdata Version: 2008h-2 Severity: normal Please restore the ability to use US timezones as was previously available. The current tzdata configuration loses that ability and requires a city to be selected which is neither as correct nor as convenient.
For example, I am currently in Kansas City. KC is in US Central Standard Time. If I could select KC as a city option and use it to configure the timezone that would be okay. But I can't. KC is not an available city selection option. KC is large and isn't available! There is no way to provide a selection for every city, most of which are much smaller, and that is not really what is needed. Quick, what is the correct city to choose to select US Central Standard Time when in KC? I see Winnipeg in the list and the web shows me that it is in the same timezone so I guess Winnipeg is the best choice for me in KC. Previously I could simply choose US Central Standard Time in order to set the timezone to US Central Time. Restoring the ability to choose the timezone by timezone name is exactly what is needed. Thanks. Workaround: Use the Etch version of /usr/sbin/tzconfig. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
