On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 03 Jul 2008, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: > >> Kolkata AFAIK, is listed because Calcutta Standard Time during the >> British Raj was GMT+5:30. This has been abolished after unification >> of India. > > British raj was over in 1947. How did Calcutta show up in Linux time > zone data?
Legacy perhaps. I am not sure of this. > > Is it possible to list several names e.g. "Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, > Mumbai" like in Windows *or* just "India" since we have only one time > zone? > Unfortunately no. This is a "city" file listed in /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/ I suppose, looking at India's diverse nature, the maker of Windoze just made a smarter decision :) -- 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/
