Guys, Thank you for clarifications. Let me try to exemplify the problem. It is strange that in Brazil we have 4 major timezone areas: Fernando de Noronha (GMT -2) -> America/Noronha Brasilia (GMT -3) -> America/Sao_Paulo Amazonas (GMT -4) -> America/Manaus Acre (GMT -5) -> America/Rio_Branco Manaus is capital of Amazonas Rio Branco is capital of Acre Brasilia is capital of Brazil and in state of Goias Fernando de Noronha is an island People in Brazil, call it as "Horario de Brasilia" as the main timezone. In Windows it displays Brasilia for user. In iOS has the Brasilia entry as well. In Android (my interested area) the timezone list uses Exemplar location, so "Sao Paulo" is shown. I don`t know how other systems manages timezones. But it is sure that there is some mismatching. What do you guys think ? An entry like America/Brasilia, mapping to America/Sao_Paulo and changing displayName would be the solution ? Thanks in advance. Marcio Ikeda From: Matt Johnson [mailto:mj1856@hotmail.com] Sent: sexta-feira, 9 de outubro de 2015 16:43 To: J Andrew Lipscomb; MARCIO IKEDA/LGESP R&D GSM SW(marcio.ikeda@lge.com) Cc: tz@iana.org Subject: RE: [tz] Timezone in Brazil Hi Marcio! "Metazone" is a CLDR term. See: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-dates.html#Metazone_Names http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml CLDR depends on TZDB, but not vice-versa. You may also be interested in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Brazil Cheers! -Matt ________________________________ From: silverpie2@mac.com<mailto:silverpie2@mac.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:04:54 -0400 To: marcio.ikeda@lge.com<mailto:marcio.ikeda@lge.com> CC: tz@iana.org<mailto:tz@iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Timezone in Brazil This is one of the most common questions we get. Being the capital is not meaningful--it's the largest city in the zone that names it. Thus, Brasilia would be in the São Paulo (or Rio de Janeiro) zone. (Similarly, Washington DC is in the New York zone, and Ottawa in the Toronto zone.) Envoyé de mon iPad Le 8 oct. 2015 à 17:21, MARCIO IKEDA <marcio.ikeda@lge.com<mailto:marcio.ikeda@lge.com>> a écrit : This is Marcio Ikeda from LG Electronics in Brazil. Nice to meet you! I would like to know if there are some background history for timezones in Brazil. It seems that Brasilia city which is the capital, is only treated as a metaZone and not a timeZone. I would like to know if are there some discussions on why America/Brasilia is not in the list. And if It is possible to include it. This is causing people from QA here to question this. Thank you! Marcio Ikeda Software Engineer | UIFW - LGESP SCA R&D Lab Office: + 55 11 2202 5339 Mobile:+ 55 11 9 9966 6457 E-mail: marcio.ikeda@lge.com<mailto:marcio.ikeda@lge.com> <image001.jpg> LG ELECTRONICS DO BRASIL Av. Dr. Chucri Zaidan, 1170 - 10º andar - CEP 04583-110 - São Paulo/SP www.lge.com/br<http://www.lge.com/br> <image002.jpg>