#1135233 installation-guide: Preseed example time zone setting invalid

#1135233#5
Date:
2026-04-29 18:53:09 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

The preseed example in the installation guide uses the old format of US time
zone which no longer works. It would be nice to have a working value there in
the example.

I haven't done preseed for a while but now am going to set up some VMs, so I
downloaded the example-preseed.txt file for trixie, modified & tested (with
latest trixie netinst iso). Time zone setting didn't apply (used US/Central -
also tried US/Eastern, which is exactly what is in the example). Looked in
/usr/share/zoneinfo and saw the links for the old US/ format are no longer
there. Changed my file to America/Chicago and it the setting applied
successfully.

It would be nice if the example were updated to America/New_York or some other
working value.

#1135233#10
Date:
2026-04-29 21:19:06 UTC
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To:
Hello,

Bug #1135233 in installation-guide reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/-/commit/f100e1ffff867a21f11229c1817a319710de5809
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Fix timezone preseed example to America/New_York

(Closes: Bug#1135233)
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https://bugs.debian.org/1135233