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Alternative Timezone Naming in Calamares
Quoting: Alternative Timezone Naming in Calamares | [bobulate] —
Calamares is a Linux system installer. During installation, it asks the user where they are on the globe, in order to set the timezone correctly on the installed system. Calamares displays the nearest timezone after you click on a map. I would like to leverage that a little for social good (or at least a tiny bit of awareness).
The last time I wrote about the Calamares timezone selector, I also said it is terrible.
One thing I do like about the timezone selector is that it supports translating the name of a timezone. That way, even though the string in the timezone database is Europe/Kiev – a relic of the time-period that the timezone database was conceived – it displays the correct Europe/Kyiv. That’s when you run Calamares in English, anyway.
I added timezone translations to Calamares because a friend asked for it, and then did a couple of Dutch translations. That is because Dutch has exonyms (names in Dutch for other places) and calls Berlin, Berlijn and Paris, Parijs. There is a timezone Europa/Berlijn. The official Dutch name – last I checked – of Kyiv is Kiev, though.