Processed: Re: d-i.debian.org: permit selecting UTC as timezone in non-expert installer

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

retitle -1 debian-installer: add UTC timezone option to non-expert installer

Bug #1043557 [d-i.debian.org] d-i.debian.org: permit selecting UTC as timezone in non-expert installer
Changed Bug title to 'debian-installer: add UTC timezone option to non-expert installer' from 'd-i.debian.org: permit selecting UTC as timezone in non-expert installer'.

reassign -1 debian-installer

Bug #1043557 [d-i.debian.org] debian-installer: add UTC timezone option to non-expert installer
Bug reassigned from package 'd-i.debian.org' to 'debian-installer'.
No longer marked as found in versions debian-installer/20230607+deb12u6.
Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #1043557 to the same values previously set

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Source: debian-installer
Version: 20230607+deb12u6
Followup-For: Bug #1043557
Control: retitle -1 debian-installer: add UTC timezone option to non-expert installer
Control: reassign -1 debian-installer

this bug was filed against the wrong package name, retitling and
reassigning

[Holger Wansing]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix


Hi,

When using the non-expert text installer from a netinst cd of debian bookworm 12.1, only the timezones in the attached picture are displayed for selection.
Please make it possible to select UTC as the timezone, for any language/locale/region the user may have selected in previous steps of the installation.
UTC is available for selection in the expert text installer.

This discussion already happened when introducing the UTC option for expert
mode back in 2009 (see #442856).

The arguments did not change since then, mainly:
- UTC will most likely be a corner case, an option for experts, not for the
majority of users.
- Adding UTC for all countries in the default install, would add one more
question to be shown in all (!) installations for those countries, which
only have one timezone.

Asking one more question to all people, just to make a rare used option
available to some experts don't seems like a good option to me.

So I'm marking this bug as wontfix.


Holger

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Post by Holger Wansing
tags -1 + wontfix

Bug #1043557 [debian-installer] debian-installer: add UTC timezone option to non-expert installer
Added tag(s) wontfix.