June 7, 2012
9:41 p.m.
Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> writes:
<<On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:11:53 +0200, Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> said:
We translate some of the strings in zone.tab, yes. system-config-date is a GUI application for clock management that presents a map and a list of zones. The zones IDs and descriptions need to be localized, that's why we translate it.
Why does the user even see the TZid? I'm curious as to the reasoning behind this design decision. In FreeBSD, the only reason a user has to know about TZids is if they want to explicitly invoke a timezone other than the system default from the shell.
To set up that default zone, you would use system-config-date. Thanks, PM