Ted Byers quoth
>>> Isn't it odd that, in the Asia data,
[ . . . ]
>>> and yet I don't see any data for the major Indian cities like Mumbai,
>>> Calcutta or Delhi. If there are Indian cities represented there, I
>>> don't know their names. And THAT strikes me as odd, given that
>>> India, by itself, has about a quarter of the world's population and
>>> it has some of the world's largest cities.
In 1996 we had to learn to replace 'Bombay' with 'Mumbai'; five years later
'Calcutta' became--or rather, changed its official English name back to what
its real name has always been--'Kolkata,' but for some reason Western media
seem to have ignored that one. There does appear to be a Kolkata in
DateTime::TimeZone.
Whatever you decide to call the cities, India's easy: the *whole* country is
on IST, with no "D*yl*ght S*v*ng"(*) time. So India is GMT+5.5, everywhere,
all the time. (Except, of course, for some of the huge call-center
communities that set the clocks to, and live by, one of the North American
time zones.)
Best regards,
M. Theo
(*) from Mtheopedia:
"DAYLIGHT SAVING" TIME, abbr. DST; also (illit.) "DAYLIGHT SAVINGS," (n.): A
monstrous contrivance, entailing the annual loss of billions of dollars of
productivity and several human lives, along with untold misery among the
survivors, intended to solve a non-existent problem and contributing its
patch of tar to the road such good intentions inevitably pave, imposed by
legislative scoundrels and maintained by pressure from the so-called
"leisure industry," the whole fraud meekly submitted to by a public capable
of lending credulity to such transparent nonsense as the phrase "'gaining'
an hour." See also under HOAX, SWINDLE, TORTURE TECHNIQUES, TH'EXPENSE OF
SPIRIT IN A WASTE OF SHAME, and WINDOWS.
[I wish I could say the 'human lives' part is merely a tasteless joke. Alas,
it isn't. --Ed.]
--
m. theo
producer / classics without walls
the anti-warhorse zone / www.amural.com
kusf 90.3fm / san francisco
