On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Tanveer Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 02-Jul-08, at 3:37 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: >> >>> 1. Legacy Calcutta Standard Time used during the British carried over >>> 2. Delhi stands very close to Dili in pronunciation and spelling, and >>> can be confusing. >> > If it aint broken why fix it?
Why did India choose to switch to standard metric system, when the britsh system of measurment in miles and pounds works well in quite a few countries? I am looking from the perspective of a newbie who is doing his first installation, and sets his timezone as India. (S)he tries to find Delhi on the drop down list but fails to find it, and probably later resorts to the map. Yes, (S)he does have a choice but not what was in his mind. Or take example of another person who wishes to set multiple clocks on his desktop, with one as India, and finds Kolkata rather than a more obvious choice. I just propose to be politically correct. Kolkata might be sounding good to you since both cities are in India. > I concur. > Moreover Delhi has very high crime rate against women. Changing > Calcutta to Delhi would drive women tuxer's(not that there are too > many of them) away from Linux. > And what should be done with Harare, with Zimbabwe's inflation rate increasing to 1,60,000% ? Such decisions must be made based on popularity (sometimes even negative ;)) of the city rather than factors such as crime rate. For example, New York is represented for EDT rather than Washington, which is the capital of US. Whether Delhi is more popular than Kolkata is debatable. -- Goldwyn _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
