Sujay Phadke said:
I was browsing through the tz database and I don't see a single city in the country of India for the timezone setting. Would you enlighten me as to why it is so?
The zone is called "Asia/Kolkata".
I am specifically looking at this:
That is out of data; it refers to database version 2014b, whereas the current version is 2015a.
Secondly, what is this "Indian/<island names> ? This is some old relic information that needs to be updated. None of those island have anything to do with India, so why keep the naming convention?
"Indian" refers to the Indian Ocean, not to India. As far as I am aware, the Indian Ocean still exists.
I did go through one discussion in your achives: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-December/018488.html, but I couldn't see any reason why Mumbai or New Delhi cannot be added.
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