friedgold
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Joined: Mar. 2005 |
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Posted: Oct. 13 2005,20:06 |
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In DSL the only timezone files supplied are US timezones. It would be nice if some other timezone files were supplied as DSL is used around the world (see this thread).
I realise that it would not be possible to include every timezone Knoppix 3.4 has due to space reasons. However the inclusion of some of the most common timezone files would be enough to cover the majority of users. I think at the very least it would be a good idea to include those mentioned in the knoppix-autoconfig script. This would mean that people who specify the regional settings with the lang= cheatcode won't come up against errors like
Code Sample | cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London' : No such file or directory |
but instead would have their timezone correctly setup in DSL.
The timezones mentioned in knoppix-autoconfig are:
Code Sample | Asia/Shanghai Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tokyo Asia/Taipei Europe/Berlin Europe/Brussels Europe/Sofia Europe/Zurich Europe/Prague Europe/Copenhagen Europe/Madrid Europe/Helsinki Europe/Paris Europe/Dublin Europe/Rome Europe/Amsterdam Europe/Warsaw Europe/Moscow Europe/Bratislava Europe/Istanbul Europe/London |
These take up 92k and compress very well (8k compressed). If it is felt that 8k is too much room then some of the less commonly used US timezones could be removed (e.g. US/Hawaii or US/Aleutian)
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