Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-04-03 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Wed Mar 23 00:58:09 +0100 2011: Thanks for the patch! It's a good start, but unfortunately not enough. POSIX defines TZ as std offset dst offset, rule [1], ... No, according to [1] only the std offset form is required, the remaining fields are

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-04-03 Thread James Cameron
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 01:42:49PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Wed Mar 23 00:58:09 +0100 2011: Yes, the system will claim the local time zone to be UTC. This is unchanged from before the patch. The patch was not intended to fix this. Do you

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-03-22 Thread Sascha Silbe
Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Mon Mar 21 04:09:27 +0100 2011: - remove GMT offsets as useless, since GMT tracks UTC and this is not expected to change, - fix #2195 by translating from ISO 8601 to POSIX.1 format, by reversing the sign, - increase UTC timezone coverage for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-03-22 Thread Daniel Drake
On 22 March 2011 22:47, Sascha Silbe sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote: Short term an option might be to parse the /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab file. Probably too invasive for 0.92.x, though (but OLPC can cherry-pick from master). I think you can still solve this quite clearly and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-03-22 Thread James Cameron
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:47:53PM +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: Excerpts from James Cameron's message of Mon Mar 21 04:09:27 +0100 2011: - remove GMT offsets as useless, since GMT tracks UTC and this is not expected to change, - fix #2195 by translating from ISO 8601 to POSIX.1 format,

[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] revise timezone list, #2195

2011-03-20 Thread James Cameron
- remove GMT offsets as useless, since GMT tracks UTC and this is not expected to change, - fix #2195 by translating from ISO 8601 to POSIX.1 format, by reversing the sign, - increase UTC timezone coverage for Kiribati and Tonga. References: