(Specifically, if you live in [or are knowledgeable about] AR, AU, BR, CA, CN, CD, GL, ID, KZ, MY, MX, RU, UA, or UZ, please read this. Thanks :)
Vincent has just committed the patches to fix the "clock applet guesses the wrong timezone" bug, but this relies on libgweather/data/Locations.xml.in having the correct timezones listed for various places. For large countries that span multiple timezones, it takes some work to get this right. I spent a while getting the US right, and I did some investigation on most of the others, but there are still places where the information is wrong (especially in the non-English-speaking countries, which it was harder for me to find reliable information about). Specifically: - Argentina: /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab lists 11 zones, though Wikipedia claims that there is only a single zone for the entire country. It's possible that the other 10 zones reflect historical distinctions that are no longer relevant. I assigned the whole country to America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires. Is this right? - Australia: I assigned a timezone to each <state> in AU, but /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab has multiple zones for most states, so some <location> entries on the edges of states may need to override the <tz-hint> inherited from their state. - Brazil: /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab lists 15 zones. I did not even bother trying to figure them out, and assigned the whole country to America/Sao_Paulo. - Canada: I assigned a timezone to each <state>, and split things up further within states in a few cases where it was easy to distinguish timezones by longitude. Still needs some tweaking around the edges. - China: 5 timezones listed, but everything I've seen says that only Asia/Shanghai is still in use. Right? (Taiwan and Hong Kong are listed separately.) - Democratic Republic of the Congo: 2 timezones. I assigned the whole country to Africa/Kinshasa - Greenland: 4 timezones, several locations. I assigned the whole country to America/Godthab - Indonesia: 4 timezones, somewhat guessable based on longitude. Probably not 100% right though - Kazakhstan: 5 timezones. A few of the <location>s matched the name of a timezone, but the remaining ones got defaulted to Asia/Alamaty. - Malaysia: 2 timezones on widely separated islands, so I think I got these right just going by longitude. - Mexico: 8 timezones, many <location>s, not divided into <state>s, so I didn't even try sorting them out. Everything got America/Mexico_City - Russia: 15 timezones, many <location>s. Everything got Europe/Moscow. - Ukraine: 4 timezones, Everything got Europe/Kiev - Uzbekistan: 2 timezones, Everything got Asia/Tashkent If you can provide better data for any of these, please check out libgweather, add <tz-hint> lines to the appropriate <country>, <state>, or <location> entries in data/Locations.xml.in (the <tz-hint> has to come immediately after the <_name>; run "make check" when you're done to validate the XML), and submit a patch to the libgweather product on bugzilla.gnome.org. Thanks. -- Dan _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n