On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Javier Bassi <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the OpenBSD installation, in the question "What timezone are you
> in?" there is an option ("DeNoronha East" in Brazil timezones) that
Those are two different time zones "Brazil/DeNoronha" and "Brazil/East".
$ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Brazil/
total 16
-r--r--r-- 3 root bin 612 Apr 7 00:30 Acre
-r--r--r-- 2 root bin 714 Apr 7 00:30 DeNoronha
-r--r--r-- 2 root bin 2001 Apr 7 00:30 East
-r--r--r-- 2 root bin 602 Apr 7 00:30 West
env TZ=Brazil/DeNoronha date ; env TZ=Brazil/East date
Fri Aug 5 22:51:43 FNT 2011
Fri Aug 5 21:51:43 BRT 2011
--patrick
> makes you enter in a no return cycle, because of the space char in the
> name of the timezone. All two words timezone use underscore instead of
> space (e.g. Buenos_Aires) except DeNoronha East which has this output
> when getting chosen:
>
> What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Canada/Mountain] ?
> /* list of all timezones */
> What timezone are you in? ('?' for list) [Canada/Mountain] Brazil
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil' are you in? ('?' for list) ?
> Acre DeNoronha East West
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil' are you in? ('?' for list) DeNoronha East
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil/DeNoronha East' are you in? ('?' for list) ?
> .
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil/DeNoronha East' are you in? ('?' for list) .
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil/DeNoronha East/.' are you in? ('?' for list) ?
> .
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil/DeNoronha East/.' are you in? ('?' for
> list) oh shit
> What sub-timezone of 'Brazil/DeNoronha East/./oh shit' are you in?
> ('?' for list)
>
>
> There is no way to successfully choose that option. Colons,
> semi-colons or escaping the space with a slash wont work, and once
> chosen you can't go back and you have to quit the installation with
> Ctrl+C
> this was OpenBSD 4.9 installer; install49.iso;md5 sum:
> c50e0889651cac33a468eeafb3d8e955
