Per Jessen wrote:
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.
Well, it doesn't define your curency symbol, but there are vanishly few choices:- Look at what it _does_ say: those choices should be the ones offered by Yast (along with other) when configuring locale. Of course, timezone doesn't tell everything, but it tells a lot, just as currency does: if you normally use Francs, you're not part of the EU, your date format is not mm/dd/yy Oh, your timezone also suggests that the local a few km (you don't use miles) up the road are likely to speak with quite a different accent: if you know that my WST applies to Australia/Perth, you on't be surprised to hear that my wife and I, from opposite sides of our country, speak with the same accent:-) Accent might be an element of locale not used atm, but when speach syntheses gets going, you really do not want to use an American accent for Australians!
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.
Consider the general case, not you specically: "Per" suggests to me you're from Scandinavia, maybe Denmark, but "John" (with variations such as Juan, Ivan) is used all over the world, and people often adopt the local variant when they move to another country. Applying some logic, some consistency check, would have made the choice of UK currency and an Australian timezone relatively difficult: while I can imagine someone migh want our timezone coupled (by default, maintaining some accounts in a foreign currency is different) with a foreign currency, I can't explain _why_ they'd want to.