Lucas Rocha wrote: > Hi Dan, > > 2008/4/7, Dan Winship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> - 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. > > There are 4 timezones in Brazil. Have a look at: > > http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/america/brazil/
Right, sorry, I didn't explain this fully in the email... (I'd spent a week dealing with it, so it was all obvious *to me*... :). The issue is that in order for the clock applet to be able to guess the right timezone for a location, someone has to go through and figure out which locations are in which timezones. Eg, Brazil has 44 cities (or at least "locations") listed: <country> <_name>Brazil</_name> <iso-code>BR</iso-code> <tz-hint>America/Sao_Paulo</tz-hint> <location> <_name>Bagé</_name> <code>SBBG</code> <coordinates>31-21S 054-07W</coordinates> </location> <location> <_name>Belém</_name> <tz-hint>America/Belem</tz-hint> <code>SBBE</code> <coordinates>01-23S 048-29W</coordinates> </location> <city> <_name>Belo Horizonte</_name> <location> <_name>Confins Airport</_name> <code>SBCF</code> <coordinates>19-56S 043-56W</coordinates> </location> </city> ... You can see here that I cleverly guessed that Belém is in the "America/Belem" timezone, but most of the locations don't have a specific guess, and so they're going to inherit the default from the <country> entry. To get better guesses, someone would have to go through all 44 <location> entries and assign the right <tz-hint> to each one (using maps and google results, etc, to figure out which timezone each city is in). In the US, this was made a little bit easier by the fact that the Locations file already splits the US up by states, and most states are entirely in a single timezone, so I could just assign one <tz-hint> to the whole <state>. So if Brazil also has states or provinces, and if the time zone divisions fall mostly along the borders of those states/provinces, the easiest solution might be to split it up according to those first, and just assign <tz-hint>s to the <state>s. -- Dan _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n