[ec2-beta] Locale and timezone in beta2

[Eric Hammond]

Though it is easy to change the locale and timezone, I agree that
reasonable defaults are important.

I think UTC is the only timezone nobody can legitimately complain about.
 After some complaints and discussion in the EC2 Ubuntu community back
in June, that's where I ended up with the Ubuntu images on
http://alestic.com

I have no idea what single locale would be "best", though I suppose an
argument could be made for en_US.UTF-8 for images in the US region.

The EU region is tougher as there are so many locales there.  The data
centers (and Canonical) are in the UK, so perhaps en_UK.UTF-8, but
getting more specific they are rumored to be hosted near Dublin,
Ireland, so... :)

Perhaps you just go with the largest expected customer base for locale.

--
Eric Hammond
ehammond at thinksome.com



Michal Frackowiak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> first of all - beta2 is great, congratulations to the whole team.
> 
> However I am wondering why the default locale is en_CA.UTF-8, and the  
> timezone: America/Toronto?
> 
> 
> ---------------
> Michal Frackowiak
> http://michalfrackowiak.com