On 5/30/07, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
A much bigger example is Asia/Calcutta. "Calcutta" is still somewhat more popular than "Kolkata" in English, according to Google, but the margin is much closer.
There's no hurry, but I have been thinking of changing it to Asia/Delhi. These days Delhi is a bit larger than Calcutta/Kolkata anyway. And nobody is messing with Delhi's spelling. Yet.
I am an ex-Delhi resident, and one who still has family there. There are calls to rename the city "Dilli", which is how it is pronounced phonetically locally, and written in Hindi. I have not seen any official moves on this, yet, but I am afraid it may not be long. The pressure to prove that we Dilli-walas are as anti-colonial as our neighbours is hard to resist. I would have suggested Asia/Allahabad, being the official standard (I believe) of IST, but there are issues here, too. Some locals wish it renamed "*Ilāhābād*", being the phonetic spelling, and others want it to be Prayag, which is the older (Hindu) name of the spot. I am new on this list, just wanted to muddy the waters with too much info :-) -- Sanjeev "ghane" Gupta