Geographical Oversight

I can't confirm this, but I can file it against the installer :-).

Ok. Thanks.

It's unlikely that we'll get to this for Gutsy. Discussion is needed on whether we should translate timezone data.

Ok. I just thought that it is a matter of accuracy more than anything else. You don't say that Europe, Asia, and Africa are the same just because they're next to each other. :-)

Right, it's more that all the timezones are called America/whatever and we can't change that because that would be an incompatible change (not to mention more verbose in something that tries to be short). The continent listing in ubiquity is generated from those timezone names at present and not translated; we also don't have a good way from ubiquity to split North America and South America, much less Central America which is just lumped together with North America in the tzdata source files. It's not entirely clear at the moment where this needs to be fixed, if it's even a single place ...

Colin Watson wrote:
> Right, it's more that all the timezones are called America/whatever and
> we can't change that because that would be an incompatible change (not
> to mention more verbose in something that tries to be short). The
> continent listing in ubiquity is generated from those timezone names at
> present and not translated; we also don't have a good way from ubiquity
> to split North America and South America, much less Central America
> which is just lumped together with North America in the tzdata source
> files. It's not entirely clear at the moment where this needs to be
> fixed, if it's even a single place ...
>
>
Well, you could just add an s to the end of America.
 As I had said earlier, when all three are used together they are
usually referred to as The Americas.

Is this still an issue in Intrepid or Jaunty?

Steven: Yes.