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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by dheera on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:21AM (#45239924)
> You can choose that. Set your timezone to Etc/GMT-8.

In the Debian installer yes, but the stupid Ubuntu installer forces you to pick from a map.

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by mindslight on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:01AM (#45240262)
If the map let you pick any arbitrary point rather than having to pick a specific city in the TZ database, that would actually be a better way than a list of cities. See the discussion elsewhere in this thread about mapping Salt Lake City -> (Boise vs Denver).

(I don't think the TZ database contains the information to do this though, but maybe it should?)

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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by prmoustache on Sunday September 14, 2025 @11:18AM (#45240443)
The good option is not to yell at clouds but to open a bug report, provide a patch, use Debian or change it after install.
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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by dheera on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:36PM (#45244820)
I change it after install, but let's be realistic: I'm not Linus Torvalds or Guido von Rustum, it's not like they would listen to me or take my patch.
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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by layer8 on Sunday September 14, 2025 @03:23PM (#45242507)
Why would you use Ubuntu in the first place?
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Re:Recreating the US/* time zone situation by dheera on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:34PM (#45244810)
Because it works? Why wouldn't you?
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