Dec. 10, 2011
7:30 a.m.
JJS <jjs.global@gmail.com> writes:
In light of the above, and simply as someone who often has to take different time zones into account, I suggest that, for practical reasons, Taiwan 臺灣 (or 台湾 <http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E6%B9%BE> in simplified orthography) and at least the city of Taipei 臺北 (台北) be given the same treatment as, say, Beijing 北京, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Perth, or Singapore.
Asia/Taipei is already there, so far as I can tell, for the standard reason that its time has varied from other zones since 1970. Maybe you didn't check the database before sending this message? -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>