Bug 927954

Summary: TUI timezone selection could provide a way how to select all timezones
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Martin Banas <mbanas>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mbanas, mkolman, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Martin Banas 2013-03-26 14:50:00 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently user is able to select timezones based on City, or UTC and GMT+-12. I would like to see a way how to select also CET, EDT, EST and other timezones.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 19-Alpha-TC2
anaconda-19.13

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start text installation of latest fedora
2. Go to timezone selection screen
3. Try to select CET timezone.
  
Actual results:
There's no way how to select CET timezone, and also writing CET on input field doesn't work.

Expected results:
User should be able to set any timezone, either
1. by selecting it from menu
or
2. by writing it on the input field
or whatever you feel could work.

Additional info:
For example an option to write any timezone, which would then be validated against /usr/share/zoneinfo/ would work nice. If more timezones are found with same name, anaconda could ask check if they are the same, and if so, ask which one to use.

There was already similar bug, but only for UTC: 863199

Comment 1 Vratislav Podzimek 2013-04-02 11:23:45 UTC
I believe this is a valid request, but there needs to be a distribution-wide agreement on which timezones are supported. One can, of course, create a symlink to whichever zoneinfo file they want, but the question is how GUI tools like gnome-control-center would handle it.

In anaconda the only problem is how to show these timezones on the timezone map which doesn't support them (we use the TimezoneMap widget from the gnome-control-center).

David, could you please suggest who are the people that should make that distribution-wide decision on which timezones should be supported?

Comment 2 Martin Banas 2013-04-02 11:33:25 UTC
>> In anaconda the only problem is how to show these timezones on the timezone map which doesn't support them (we use the TimezoneMap widget from the gnome-control-center).

This bug was requested for TUI. But of course I will be glade if the support is both in TUI and GUI. I can create a new bug for GUI if you like.

Comment 3 David Cantrell 2014-09-24 15:35:13 UTC
(In reply to Vratislav Podzimek from comment #1)
> I believe this is a valid request, but there needs to be a distribution-wide
> agreement on which timezones are supported. One can, of course, create a
> symlink to whichever zoneinfo file they want, but the question is how GUI
> tools like gnome-control-center would handle it.
> 
> In anaconda the only problem is how to show these timezones on the timezone
> map which doesn't support them (we use the TimezoneMap widget from the
> gnome-control-center).
> 
> David, could you please suggest who are the people that should make that
> distribution-wide decision on which timezones should be supported?

For Fedora, I believe this should be a FESCo decision as it is a technical policy decision for the project.

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