On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 Jul 2008, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am forwarding a mail I sent to timezone mailing list sometime back. >> I should have first discussed this on the ilugd list, but it is still >> not late. >> >> I don't mean to introduce a geographical divide, but just want the >> timezone package to be "politically correct". >> >> Your views are welcome, and could probably post directly to the >> timezone mailing list. > > The longitude that represents IST is 82.5 degrees east (Mirzapur, UP). > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time> > > From your post it is not clear whether Kolkata should be changed to > Mirazapur. Is this what you are getting at? Logically, the city > closest to the ref. longitude should be in the time zone data. >
Logically yes, but not with respect to popularity. Timezone package contains major cities of the timezone rather than the city/suburb of the correct meridian. eg, CET/CEST. I wish to propose to change the city to Delhi from Kolkata. -- 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/
