Bug#519032: Missing zoneinfo/Asia/Beijing in tzdata
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 06:42:05AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > There is no Asia/Beijing in TimeZone, which should have. Beijing is
> > the capital of China, where held 2008 Olympic games. It is one of most
> > important city in China. There is Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Chongqing in
> > tzdata, however, there is actually no Shanghai timezone in China.
At this point we are just following along with upstream's system;
if we are going to present a different set of zones to the user, I
think it should be planned somewhat carefully.
> Would Asia/Beijing be added, I suggest also adding Asia/Lhasa to make it
> easier to people leaving in that place and its neighbourhood to
> understand why the time they have to set has several hours difference with
> the immediate neighbouring countries such as Nepal, India or Bhutan.
We could have something like
Xinjiang Time (Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei, west Qinghai,
Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou,
Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, Xinyi, Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar,
Shawan, Hutubi, Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe,
Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan)
and have that just map to Asia/Urumqi on the backend. I don't know
how much fun that would be for translators though.
> The same probably stands for Urumqi and the several other places that
> have to share their timezone information with Eastern China.
Asia/Urumqi is in there already and has historical data back to 1928.
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