On 2026-06-07 13:59, Byron Valdivieso via tz wrote:
In almost all modern Linux distributions and open-source installers, users in Ecuador are forced to select "Guayaquil" as their geographic anchor, creating confusion since Quito is the nation's capital and the administrative center.
Even in 'tzselect', the simple text selector that comes with TZDB, by default users select "Americas" then "Ecuador" then "Ecuador (mainland)", so there's little confusion there. And most Linux distributions have a map-based selector that is similarly unambiguous. Also, Ecuador's users are not that unusual: nearly half the world's population lives in countries like Brazil and the US whose capitals lack TZDB Zone names. We've long had a guideline of sticking to the name of the most populous among locations in a region[1], and it's not clear that Ecuador should be an exception. [1]: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming