Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Viksit Gaur
Oh good lord, the entire list is aflame. Oh wait, no its just the regular flamers who're flaming. India has only one timezone. I woulid like to suggest to change the city to Delhi (from Calcutta), which is the capital of India, and has been stable since the country's independence in 1947. If

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Viksit Gaur [04/07/08 01:49 -0700]: Oh good lord, the entire list is aflame. Oh wait, no its just the regular flamers who're flaming. India has only one timezone. I woulid like to suggest to change the city to Delhi (from Calcutta), which is the capital of India, and has been stable since

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Yashpal Nagar
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ Viksit Gaur [04/07/08 01:49 -0700]: Oh good lord, the entire list is aflame. Oh wait, no its just the regular flamers who're flaming. India has only one timezone. I woulid like to suggest to change the city to

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 04 Jul 2008, Yashpal Nagar wrote: I agree Vivek's point to checkout, how other countries with single timezones handled this issue. Taking the example of a small country like Netherlands, the capital is Den Haag. Linux time zone data lists Amsterdam. -- Arun Khan

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:29:28PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote: | On Friday 04 Jul 2008, Yashpal Nagar wrote: | | I agree Vivek's point to checkout, how other countries with single | timezones handled this issue. | | Taking the example of a small

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 04 Jul 2008, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: ,--[ On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:29:28PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote: | On Friday 04 Jul 2008, Yashpal Nagar wrote: | I agree Vivek's point to checkout, how other countries with | single timezones handled this issue. | | Taking the example

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Mani A
Viksit Gaur [04/07/08 01:49 -0700] wrote: This is exactly, where this thread started under what basis linux time zone start showing only Calcutta as the only choice. Is there can be other reason apart from, British considered it as the capital during their time? No problem, Kolkata can be

[ilugd] Home Automation in Linux

2008-07-04 Thread Vivek Kapoor
Hi I was wondering if anyone has worked on some sort of home automation in Linux. The switching on/off is sufficient for the time being. If yes, then what devices did you use and where did you get them from? Also how did you interact with the devices. I have gone through some of the pages on

[ilugd] ISO approves PDF as an international standard

2008-07-04 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adobe PDF v1.7 is now standardized as ISO32000-1. For details of the news, visit following URL: http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/070208-iso-approves-pdf-as-an.html Ashish - -- ·-- ·- ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· ---

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Anand Shankar
Sorry to note that despite 31 posts on the thread there is no meaningful explanation I can offer on the subject to a serious audience. I think the issue deserves more serious thoughts rather than some frivolous comments seen in the thread. My take: Q: Why fix it ...? A: Just because every one

Re: [ilugd] Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Naresh Narang
Guys, NE region ought to be in a different timezone. They should be 30 min ahead. Now go beat this :-) Regards, -- Naresh ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/7/5 Naresh Narang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NE region ought to be in a different timezone. They should be 30 min ahead. Now go beat this :-) More like 1 hour if we are to take benefit of daylight. Or the more sensible way is to keep working hours 7-4 instead of 8-5 (say for example) but keep

Re: [ilugd] Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Naresh Narang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, NE region ought to be in a different timezone. They should be 30 min ahead. Now go beat this :-) Regards, -- Naresh Please propose this change to Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). When that is approved as a