#1124006 installation-reports: Argentina's time zone doesn't work in the Debian installer

#1124006#5
Date:
2025-12-26 03:02:42 UTC
From:
To:
(Please provide enough information to help the Debian
maintainers evaluate the report efficiently - e.g., by filling
in the sections below.)

Boot method: network
Image version: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/
debian-13.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: <Date and time of the install>

Machine: Asus PRIME X570-PRO Mother - AMD Ryzen 7 5700X processor - amd64
Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred>


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:           [O]
Detect network card:    [O]
Configure network:      [O]
Detect media:           [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [E]
User/password setup:    [O]
Detect hard drives:     [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O]
Install base system:    [O]
Install tasks:          [O]
Install boot loader:    [O]
Overall install:        [O]

Comments/Problems:

<Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments
      and ideas you had during the initial install.>

In the graphical installation of Debian 13 (netinst), when selecting Spanish
language, and place Argentina, the time is not configured in UTC -03 (Buenos,
Aires, Argentina), the system is installed in UTC 00

#1124006#10
Date:
2025-12-27 14:13:59 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Am 26. Dezember 2025 04:02:42 MEZ schrieb Lalo <lalo_massa@yahoo.com>:

This has already been reported (and fixed) in
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1111332>

#1124006#15
Date:
2025-12-27 22:27:00 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2025-12-27):

Thanks Lalo for the report and Holger for the reference, I'll prepare an
upload for trixie-proposed-updates, and check the situation for bookworm.
If and when that gets accepted, images build for further point releases
should be fixed.


Chau/tschüss,

#1124006#20
Date:
2025-12-27 23:08:33 UTC
From:
To:
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (2025-12-27):

As far as I can see, that was triggered by tzdata's splitting legacy
names into a separate package:

https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/81fcc2bdf2cc464f24aee7524c476d82bcbcbf9a

which was published in 2023c-8 (even if some small parts of it were
reverted in 2023c-9 and 2023c-10), during the trixie release cycle, so
bookworm should be unaffected.

And indeed, on my up-to-date bookworm system, I'm seeing these four:

  /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
  /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Buenos_Aires
  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kiev
  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kyiv

while a trixie devel chroot only has:

  /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
  /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kyiv

(I failed to mention this in my initial reply but of course I'm taking
both fixes…)


Cheers,