John Summerfield wrote:
Not at all. Timezone and locale may be related, but one does not imply the other. My timezone is CET - what does that tell you about my locale? You probably don't speak any variety of Chinese, Urdu, Japanese or Hindi:-) Just that statement rules out languages spoken by over 1/3 of the people on planet Earth today.
Probably, you have a fair skin not dark, English isn't your first language, are (culturally) Christian not Shinto, use Euros not Pesos or Dongs and don't normally eat grubs or snakes.
So, in effect the timezone tells you very little about my locale - which includes things like number-format, thousands-separator, time-format, and currency-symbol.
Your choice of language (for installation) and keyboard would go far to informing one better about you.
Probably not - I usually use English for installation, and I use a US-english keyboard for the moment. But we're digressing. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution.