I agree with the drawbacks of using the most populated city as a proxy for a time zone. In this case, what's wrong with calling the tz zone Asia/China and being done with it? ++PLS -----Original Message----- From: tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov] On Behalf Of Zhe Su Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 7:06 AM To: Paul Eggert Cc: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Some modifications of China related timezone info. Hi, And in my opinion, using the rule of using most populous location to identify each region is not a generic way for every countries. IMO, we should use different rules for different countries to fit their local circumstances. For China (or more exactly, PRC), it's apparently not suitable to use the population rule. Because the most populous location in China is Chongqing, which is belong to Sichuan province, the most populous province of China. But Chongqing is far less developed than Shanghai and Beijing, so it's far less popular than Beijing and Shanghai. So for China, I'd prefer to use the most important and popular location, Beijing, the capital of China to identify our unique timezone. Regards James Su On 4/29/06, Zhe Su <james.su@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I still can't agree with you. It's harmless to add "Asia/Beijing". And China now uses only one timezone, which is called officially "China Standard Time" and indeed it's known as Beijing Time. Now we have five timezones for China in asia/zone.tab: "Asia/Shanghai", "Asia/Chongqing", "Asia/Urumqi", "Asia/Harbin", "Asia/Kashgar". But they are known as historic timezones (according to comments in asia file). After 1949, the establishing of People's Republic of China, we uses only one timezone, which is called "Beijing Time" or "China Standard Time" officially. So if you think we should choose a most populous city of China to represent the only one "China Standard Time", that is Chongqing rather than Shanghai, because Chongqing has more than 27 million population. But, I still think using "Asia/Beijing" to represent the only timezone used in Peoples Republic of China is the most reasonable way.
Regards James Su
On 4/29/06, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
"Zhe Su" <james.su@gmail.com> writes:
So, is it ok to just add "Asia/Beijing" into the database along with "Asia/Shanghai"? So that people can choose whatever they want.
For now I'd rather not do that, for the reasons already mentioned.