Jason, The timezone abbreviations in the zoneinfo database are not, nor are the intended to be a fully localized timezone abbreviations for end user display. The Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) project of the Unicode Consortium is an open project for collecting and disseminating a common set of resources for localization information. The scope of the CLDR project encompasses time zone information, including time zone definitions sourced from the zoneinfo project, and display names and abbreviations for metazones (collections of time zones that share display strings) contributed directly to the CLDR project. The latest release of CLDR does include localization resources for Indonesian, but it appears to be missing the resources corresponding to the metazone names and abbreviations for the Indonesian metazones. Since you seem to have knowledge about what these resources should be, I would highly encourage you or the user who reported the problem to contribute that knowledge to the CLDR project: http://unicode.org/cldr/ The project is currently accepting data submissions for the 1.7 release. You can take advantage of these updated timezone abbreviations for Indonesian by integrating CLDR into your project, or by integrating a a project that uses CLDR itself, like ICU. -Scott On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] < olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Grimes [mailto:jg@proz.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:23 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Jason Grimes Subject: Incorrect time zone abbreviations for Indonesia
Dear time zone data maintainers,
I'm a developer at ProZ.com, a website for human language translators. One of our users has reported that the time zone names for the time zones in Indonesia, specifically Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Pontianak, Asia/Makassar, and Asia/Jayapura, are incorrect in the current time zone data.
According to her, and to the following references, it appears that these time zone abbreviations should be updated as follows:
ID offset current new Asia/Jakarta UTC+7 WIT WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat) Asia/Pontianak UTC+7 WIT WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat) Asia/Makassar UTC+8 CIT WITA (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) Asia/Jayapura UTC+9 EIT WIT (Waktu Indonesia Timur)
References: http://time.kim.lipi.go.id/ http://www.statoids.com/tid.html
I noticed a similar bug report from 2005 but I was unable to find any resolution: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc/12741/match=indo nesia
I hope this gives enough information to update these time zone names.
Thanks to all of you who help to maintain this valuable resource.
Best regards,
Jason Grimes
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