Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > UTC-8 is presented by Shanghai, it is very strange. Beijing is > > > the capital of China. So, there is no reason that Beijing is not > > > in the list. > > > > > > I want to file a bug, but I don't know which packages are > > > related. Who can help me? > > > > Ottawa is the capital of Canada, and Toronto is the capital of > > Ontario, but our timezone is represented by Montreal in Linux. Go > > figure. It's not even the capital of Quebec, which is - > > incidentally - Quebec. > > Here, the timezone is determined in Durban (which is almost on -30 > degrees), capital is Pretoria (windows uses > Pretoria/Harare/Jerusalem IIRC), but all unix tools (including > Evo/Solaris apparently) use Johannesburg.
pablo offered to add new aliases in timezone db:
--- glibc-2.3.2/timezone/backward_old 2003-05-28 10:33:33.000000000 +0200 +++ glibc-2.3.2/timezone/backward 2003-05-28 10:53:06.000000000 +0200 @@ -93,3 +93,18 @@ Link Etc/Universal Universal Link Europe/Moscow W-SU Link Etc/Zulu Zulu + +# links requested by users (to access timezones by the name of main cities) +# [EMAIL PROTECTED] +# Canada/Saskatchewan +Link America/Regina America/Saskatoon +# Canada/Mountain (Alberta) +Link America/Edmonton America/Calgary +# Canada/Atlantic (New Brunswick) +Link America/Halifax America/Fredericton +# America/Eastern (Ontario) +Link America/Montreal America/Ontario +# PRC +Link Asia/Shanghai Asia/Beijing +# South Africa +Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Pretoria
