Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: tzdata
Hi,
I would like to suggest important updates to the Indian Time Zone (IST).
1. The timezone is sometimes listed as Asia/Calcutta. There are three
things wrong with using "Calcutta". A] The city is now Kolkata (I think
I have seen Asia/Kolkata somewhere). B] Kolkata is no longer the largest
city in India. C] No time-keeping related activity is associated with
Kolkata. (IST is measured from Mirpur, near Allahabad) So, instead of
using Kolkata, please change it to the capital city, New Delhi.
2. In the list of Indian cities, the old city names are present, and not
the new. It's been 15 years since some of the city names have been
changed, but no such updates are seen in Ubuntu. eg, Bombay > Mumbai,
Calcutta > Kolkata, Madras > Chennai, Bangalore > Bengaluru. Instead of
deleting the old names, I would suggest that new entries be copied from
the old names so that Bombay and Mumbai both exist.
I am interested in adding more Indian cities to the list of available
cities in India when selecting a time zone. How do I do this?
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 25 01:31:31 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: tzdata 2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: tzdata
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64
** Affects: tzdata (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Indian Standard Time needs update
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546210
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