From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15300 invoked by alias); 5 Aug 2015 11:52:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 76630 invoked by uid 89); 5 Aug 2015 10:37:12 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mx2.suse.de From: Andreas Schwab To: keld@keldix.com Cc: Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information References: <556F23C9.3030500@redhat.com> <557AE725.5050104@redhat.com> <20150805090748.GH26572@vapier> <20150805100126.GA11842@www5.open-std.org> <20150805102233.GA12350@www5.open-std.org> X-Yow: Didn't I buy a 1951 Packard from you last March in Cairo? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 11:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20150805102233.GA12350@www5.open-std.org> (keld@keldix.com's message of "Wed, 5 Aug 2015 12:22:33 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00057.txt.bz2 keld@keldix.com writes: > Let me explain. We would like to make the installation process easier > for users. That is, if we can remove one more question under the installation > process of linux, that would be a goal. If the timezone is fully determined > by the choice of locale, then there is no need to ask for the timezone. To make this useful the locale would need to use the Olson name, not the POSIX name of the timezone. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."