Description of problem: When using the 'none' (option 11 selection) from the first menu in tzselect, and entering a timezone value, you receive the following: Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent or ocean. 1) Africa 2) Americas 3) Antarctica 4) Arctic Ocean 5) Asia 6) Atlantic Ocean 7) Australia 8) Europe 9) Indian Ocean 10) Pacific Ocean 11) none - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format. #? 11 Please enter the desired value of the TZ environment variable. For example, GST-10 is a zone named GST that is 10 hours ahead (east) of UTC. GST-5 awk: cmd. line:5: warning: escape sequence `\.' treated as plain `.' The following information has been given: TZ='GST-5' Therefore TZ='GST-5' will be used. Local time is now: Tue May 10 20:31:06 GST 2005. Universal Time is now: Tue May 10 15:31:06 UTC 2005. Is the above information OK? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This is in: glibc-common-2.3.3-27 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.invoke tzselect 2.select option 11 3.name a valid timezone descripter Actual results: see above Expected results: Would not expect to see the awk command failure Additional info:
This bug does not have security implications, so it won't be fixed by Fedora Legacy for FC2. Please reopen against a newer FC version if the problem still persists there.