This adds Asia/Beijing to the zone.tab file, as an alias to Shanghai timezone. This is necessary because it's confusing to Chinese users, who use the name "Beijing Time", and sometimes "Chinese Standard Time", but never "Shanghai Time". Signed-off-by: James M Leddy <james.leddy@canonical.com> --- asia | 2 ++ zone.tab | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/asia b/asia index a02e109..ae3cd55 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 8:00 PRC C%sT +# Native Chinese users prefer this be called Beijing time +Link Asia/Shanghai Asia/Beijing # Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) # Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; # most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab index 6bda826..87ada17 100644 --- a/zone.tab +++ b/zone.tab @@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ CK -2114-15946 Pacific/Rarotonga CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago most locations CL -2709-10926 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala +CN +3954+11625 Asia/Beijing alias to Asia/Shanghai CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc. CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc. -- 1.7.9.5