Drop tzdata aliases from the timezone pickers - #11288
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Picking a timezone shows near-duplicates:
Asia/Ashkhabadright underAsia/Ashgabat,Asia/CalcuttaunderAsia/Kolkata, and so on.Both pickers list
timedatectl list-timezones. Since systemd v249 that list comes from/usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.ziand includesL(Link) records as well asZ(Zone) ones, so all 257 backward-compatibility aliases land next to the real zones — about 600 entries where ~420 are meaningful.Read
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tabinstead: one row per country per distinct zone, no obsolete aliases, and unlikezone1970.tabit still listsEurope/Oslo,Europe/Stockholmand the other zones tzdata has since merged into links.UTCis added back explicitly sincezone.tabomits it and the setup form falls back to it.Applied in both places that ask —
install/provisioning/setup-form.sh(ISO configurator and first-boot owner setup) andbin/omarchy-menu-timezone.Tests:
setup-form-test.shasserts the piped list offersAsia/Ashgabatand notAsia/Ashkhabad;timezone-test.shpins the menu tozone.tab. Both pass../test/clifails the same pre-existinghardware groupassertion with and without this change (run on macOS).