Bug 208892 - Remove Busingen from tzsetup
Summary: Remove Busingen from tzsetup
Status: Closed Not A Bug
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: misc (show other bugs)
Version: 10.3-RELEASE
Hardware: Any Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2016-04-18 13:12 UTC by Lars Engels
Modified: 2019-01-16 07:31 UTC (History)
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Description Lars Engels freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-04-18 13:12:34 UTC
In tzsetup when you select "Germany" as timezone another window pops-up asking if you live "Busingen" or "most locations".

Büsingen is a tiny German exclave in Switzerland with 1,300 citizens. The probability that this small village will ever be in a different timezone than the rest of Germany is nearly zero.

Please remove the pop-up window and do no longer confuse German users.
Comment 1 Oleksandr Tymoshenko freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-01-16 07:31:26 UTC
tzsetup operates on the list of zones from tzdata, 3rd-party library/dataset, FreeBSD uses it as-is, without modifications. Apparently at some point DST rules in Busingen and DD/DE were different which by tzdata rules warrants creating dedicated record for it:

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe#L1422

# From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12):
# Büsingen <http://www.buesingen.de>, surrounded by the Swiss canton
# Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE
# (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did.
# DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1,
# which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin.
#
# Source for the time in Büsingen 1980:
# http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3