Robert Elz <kre <at> munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
But with a simple question "what's the largest city/town that always has their clock set the same as yours", and for people who can actually answer the question, that will be easy.
To come back on the original subject of this thread: 1) I understand now that I was wrong in the first place believing that time zone name was related to some political choice ; it's not and so there is no more reason to ask to switch to "Hanoi" for the Vietnam time zone name. 2) I would have loved to see "Hanoi" as a link in the database, but as I understand it now, it would just add more unnecessary work for tzdata maintainers and also distributions maintainers (confirmed by one Debian Developer) for not that much added value considering point 1), so let's forget it. 3) The primary goal of this thread was to change from "Saigon" to "Ho_Chi_Minh_City", because this is a real needed change, and it has been suggested that we use "Ho_Chi_Minh" to respect POSIX constraints, so be it ; TIA for changing it ASAP. On my side, I will make my best to teach people what I have been taught here: time zone have a simple rule to select their names which is not politically related, so there is no reason to ask for a change when it doesn't make match this rule. On the other side, I will propose my favorite distributions (Debian and Ubuntu) to make some cosmetics changes to show multiple cities for the same time zone, as we can see in some other systems. Thanks everybody for your answers, best regards, J.C.