Re: Timezone specification

[Steven Timm <timm fnal gov>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> I found that with F-10, I can no longer use
>
>  timezone --utc US/Central

    timezone --utc America/Chicago

should work.

Steve

> to specify my timezone.  For some reason this is no longer valid, even
> though it has been a valid timezone for Unix systems since as far as I
> can remember.
>
> The installer drops me into the timezone chooser, and unfortunately
> that makes it rather difficult to choose a city in US/Central, because
> it either suggests Monterrey (which has different DST rules) or forces
> me to somehow know the myriad DST rules for all of the little cities
> in Indiana which are represented on the map in preference to cities
> like Houston or Dallas.  My complaints about that have always been
> closed NOTABUG, though, so I guess there's no point in complaining
> here, except that I honestly do not know how to specify the proper
> timezone for my location any longer.  Does anyone happen to know?
>
> - J<
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