Looks like this logic is not well understood by the communities. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgweather/+bug/228554 Even the latest Ubuntu systems still only have Shanghai in the "Time and Date Settings". The same thing for PHP: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.asia.php It's better if you could add the "Asia/Beijing" identifier. Thanks! ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Paul Eggert";<eggert@cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Tue, Jul 21, 2015 09:58 PM To: "寇含军"<hjkou@qq.com>; "Time zone mailing list"<tz@iana.org>; Subject: Re: [tz] Time Zone City for China 寇含军 wrote:
if you take a look at the Windows time zone settings dialog, Beijing is in the list, but no Shanghai.
Similarly, if you look at the time zone settings dialog program published by the tz project, you'll see "Beijing Time", not "Shanghai Time". Please see the shell transcript at the end of this message. The string 'Asia/Shanghai' is a tzdata-specific identifier, not intended to be visible to non-experts. It's like 'America/New_York' (which is not the string that a non-expert user would expect in Washington DC) or 'Asia/Kolkata' (likewise for a non-expert in New Delhi). If you're selecting time zones via a user interface that's showing the string "Shanghai Time", I suggest writing to whoever's maintaining that user interface (it's not us :-). $ tzselect Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly. Please select a continent, ocean, "coord", or "TZ". 1) Africa 2) Americas 3) Antarctica 4) Asia 5) Atlantic Ocean 6) Australia 7) Europe 8) Indian Ocean 9) Pacific Ocean 10) coord - I want to use geographical coordinates. 11) TZ - I want to specify the time zone using the Posix TZ format. #? 4 Please select a country whose clocks agree with yours. 1) Afghanistan 18) Israel 35) Palestine 2) Armenia 19) Japan 36) Philippines 3) Azerbaijan 20) Jordan 37) Qatar 4) Bahrain 21) Kazakhstan 38) Russia 5) Bangladesh 22) Korea (North) 39) Saudi Arabia 6) Bhutan 23) Korea (South) 40) Singapore 7) Brunei 24) Kuwait 41) Sri Lanka 8) Cambodia 25) Kyrgyzstan 42) Syria 9) China 26) Laos 43) Taiwan 10) Cyprus 27) Lebanon 44) Tajikistan 11) East Timor 28) Macau 45) Thailand 12) Georgia 29) Malaysia 46) Turkmenistan 13) Hong Kong 30) Mongolia 47) United Arab Emirates 14) India 31) Myanmar (Burma) 48) Uzbekistan 15) Indonesia 32) Nepal 49) Vietnam 16) Iran 33) Oman 50) Yemen 17) Iraq 34) Pakistan #? 9 Please select one of the following time zone regions. 1) Beijing Time 2) Xinjiang Time #?