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As of tzdata 2022g there are following timezones of Brazil: America/Noronha America/Belem America/Santarem America/Fortaleza America/Recife America/Araguaina America/Maceio America/Bahia America/Sao_Paulo America/Campo_Grande America/Cuiaba America/Porto_Velho America/Boa_Vista America/Manaus America/Eirunepe America/Rio_Branco See https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html for details about the naming. Quote from there: "Timezones are typically identified by continent or ocean and then by the name of the largest city within the region containing the clocks." This kind of change must be done via the upstream project instead of only in Ubuntu. Please contact upstream via the t...@iana.org mailing list. Expect them to ask for evidence. Having Brasília time publicly used might convince them to change this timezone name. I am marking this bug as "Won't Fix" (as in not deviating from the upstream naming) for the Ubuntu tzdata package. Upstream changes will trickle down to Ubuntu. ** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458331 Title: time-admin doesn't have Brazil's official time zone Status in gnome-system-tools package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools This is a feature request. Brazil's official time zone, Brasília time (GMT -3), is not on Ubuntu's Time Zone list. This is a very important time zone for us, because practically all national events are advertised as "X hours, Brasília time". The current workaround is to set it to America/Sao_Paulo, because the city of São Paulo follows the country's official time, but Ubuntu would feel a lot more comfortable to us brazilians if there was an America/Brasilia time zone to choose. Not to mention that, although São Paulo is Brazil's biggest city, Brasília is the actual capital, and because it is nowhere near São Paulo (they're a thousand km apart), it is not obvious that they share the same time zone. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Oct 22 12:40:19 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/time-admin Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/458331/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
