On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 04:01:03PM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > Hei hei, > > Am Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018, 15:50:53 CEST schrieb Roland Hieber: > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:56:48AM +0200, Alexander Dahl wrote: > > > config TIMEZONE_LOCALTIME > > > > > > - prompt "Timezone for /etc/localtime and /etc/timezone" > > > + prompt "Timezone for /etc/localtime" > > > > > > default "Europe/Berlin" > > > > By the way, is this still a reasonable default for most users, or should > > we set it to UTC instead? > > I actually set this to UTC here this week. o.O > > This should be put to an additional patch then. > > > (I'm thinking about localized defaults that leak into production systems > > unnoticed, like once upon a time when most MySQL tables on production > > servers were created with Swedish collation order by default... :-)) > > You never know where the device ends up, and I think UTC is the only > reasonable default. Should we make installation of the UTC zoneinfo file > mandatory then?
I guess so. Right now, not even Europe is installed by default, even if it is chosen as the default... :) -- Roland Hieber | [email protected] | Pengutronix e.K. | https://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim | Phone: +49-5121-206917-5086 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ ptxdist mailing list [email protected]
