Martin Pitt wrote on 2008-10-29:

>Ah, so you are saying that the "representatives" for the zones should
>change? If so, this should be discussed at t...@elsie.nci.nih.gov, to
>make this change upstream (maintaining this as a Delta in Ubuntu would
>be error prone and incompatible with other software).

>From the technical view, there's an easy way to fix this bug without any error 
>or incompatible, just add Asia/Beijing and keep Asia/Shanghai. 
US is an example, which have 5 timezones, but have more than 29 cities in the 
timezone table, no problem at all.

>From the policy view, ubuntu should use Asia/Beijing, if you want more chinese 
>people use ubuntu,
I can not imagine that lenovo would OEM ubuntu without Asia/Beijing support, it 
hurt most people in China.

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