Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
Hello,
I need some help from Australian people.
I finally settled for listing states. That seems to be the most
unnderstandable option (including for foreigners who happen to arrive
in AU).
This will also be consistent with some other
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:59:19PM +1100, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
Commonwealth Games. In Victoria we were on a different timezone to that
of the folks in New South Wales.
Not really relevant, but no we weren't. NSW changed too.
Hamish
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:18PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
That's indeed insane..:-). Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria),
Sydney (NSW) and Canberra (ACT) have the *exact* same time rules
(including DST).
But they didn't always; and with
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
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.
Sure.
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:15 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:18:04 +0800
Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote:
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.
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:15:20 +0100
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org wrote:
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org):
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
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:28:18 +1100
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
The timezone choice in D-I is supposed to be user-friendly and easy
to understand for the average citizen of the said country.
FWIW: the existing Australian
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also largely misunderstood, as often two cities with
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Joey Hess wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the tzselect command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also
Quoting Ben Finney (ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au):
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
I'm just not fond of Australia/Sydney presented as a choice, I'd
rather have New South-Wales.
(Regardless of what you choose, FYI it's “New South Wales”, no hyphen.)
Sure. If I finally decide
Hello,
I need some help from Australian people.
Debian Installer includes (in tzsetup) a way to choose a timezone
among multiple timezones, when users have picked a country that has
more than one timezone.
I'm currently working on this as things change constantly in such
matters.
As
Christian PERRIER wrote:
I currently propose to offer the following choices in D-I:
Victoria, ACT, NSW, Tasmania (Eastern Time, DST)
Queensland (Eastern Time, no DST)
South Australia (Central Time, DST)
Northern Territory (Central Time, no DST)
Western Australia (Western Time)
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 19:54:05 +0100, Christian PERRIER writes:
I currently propose to offer the following choices in D-I:
Victoria, ACT, NSW, Tasmania (Eastern Time, DST)
Queensland (Eastern Time, no DST)
South Australia (Central Time, DST)
Northern Territory (Central Time, no DST)
Western
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 09:34, Alexander Zangerl a...@debian.org wrote:
not so great, because these are very uncommon. for example, you never
hear eastern time being used on the radio; here (qld/nsw border) they
say it's hh:mm, that's hh+1:mm in nsw when we're in that fun period
of the year
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
The timezone choice in D-I is supposed to be user-friendly and easy to
understand for the average citizen of the said country.
FWIW: the existing Australian timezone choice in D-I seems fine from the
point of view of the Australians I've seen do
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:28:18PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes:
[...]
That's indeed insane..:-). Hobart (Tasmania), Melbourne (Victoria),
Sydney (NSW) and Canberra (ACT) have the *exact* same time rules
(including DST).
But they didn't always; and with the
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
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
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