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Authored by emaste on Mar 25 2024, 8:28 PM.
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During the install process tzsetup asks a question like

Does the abbreviation `EDT' look reasonable?

The installer asks lots of questions, some that relate to the previous
screen or topic and some that do not. A new user installed FreeBSD for
the first time and was confused by this question, not realizing that it
was asking whether the abbreviation is correct for the selected
timezone.

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emaste created this revision.
brooks added a subscriber: brooks.

Seems reasonable.

I'm not entirely convinced this dialog should exist at all... Can we really not trust the user to select something from a list? Especially since the consequences of getting it wrong are pretty minor...

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 25 2024, 8:38 PM

I'm not entirely convinced this dialog should exist at all...

Good point, I think we could just eliminate it (and might take a look at that in the context of more significant installer & related rework). I'll make just this small change for now though for 13 and 14, so that installer screenshots and instructions continue to largely match.

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Agnostic on it's existence... maybe lean for removing it