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

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