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Bug#519032: Missing zoneinfo/Asia/Beijing in tzdata



Package: tzdata
Version: 2009b-1

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.
China government officially use GMT+8 in Beijing time zone as standard
time in the country domain since maybe 50 years ago. I don't know
where tzdata come from, but obviously out of date.

Since "Beijing local time", GMT+8, is the standard time for whole the
country, it is very strange to local people in China to choose other
city in the time zone, no matter how large the city is. So, Beijing
should be the REQUIRED city in the time zone, since it is standard
time in China, and other city like Shanghai, Chongqing, may be
OPTIONAL cities.

So, please add Asia/Beijing to the Time Zone.



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