On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:43:06AM -0400, Arthur David Olson wrote:
Patrick Ford is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado
-----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ford [mailto:patrickdotford@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 8:21 PM
This will probably sound like a rather petty request and to be honest it is...but I was wondering what one could do to have a specific location added to the timezone listing?
An official entry? Simple: have your politicians create some more arbitrary complexity (politicians seem to enjoy such endeavors) by giving your locality a new time zone observance anomaly, which will necessitate a new tz entry in order to record your local time history.
I have only recently fully switched to linux as my only OS on my notebook and while installing (K)Ubuntu I noticed on the timezone selection that Kentucky/Monticello was available as a place.
Because Wayne County, currently following New York's rules, has had a different history of time observation (until October of 2000 it followed Chicago's rules), and Monticello is the most populous location in Wayne County.
I live in Kentucky but in the Central timezone and thought it would be cool to have my city (Russell Springs) listed.
For a local hack that doesn't involve adding complexity to the rest of the world, you could create a link on your own system(s). I'm not certain about how KUbuntu lays out its directory structure, but something like this should do it: zonedir=/usr/share/zoneinfo #change path, if needed for your system ln -sf ../Chicago $zonedir/America/Kentucky/Russell_Springs ln -sf $zonedir/America/Kentucky/Russell_Springs /etc/localtime --Ken Pizzini