On 08/14/2012 03:49 AM, James M Leddy wrote:
* The common proposed fix is that we should be using "human presentable" names and have a mapping from these names to the actual timezones. Since that proposal, indeed since the inception of desktop Linux/Unix, no one (as far as I know) has actually done this
I happened to read this on my laptop which runs Ubuntu 12.04 and uses the tz database. I clicked on the time in the upper right-hand part of my screen, clicked on "Time & Date Settings", typed "Beijing", and it automatically changed my desktop to Beijing Time aka CST. So, not only has it been done, it's been done on a platform that your company helps maintain....
* we have a link from the Vatican to Rome, even though it should be pretty obvious that they're the same time zone.
In hindsight perhaps we should not have had a separate entry for each country, as this has resulted in all sorts of nationalistic commentary that has little to do with the actual data. I'd rather not make matters worse, though.
It's called "Beijing Time".
And time in London is called "Greenwich Mean Time". But we do not have a Europe/Greenwich entry.