On 2017-11-11 23:31:28 (+0000), Sébastien Bouchard wrote:
It would be nice if Montreal was included in your database. There are smaller cities that are listed. I am using the latest Linux Mint Mate (18.2) and i had to choose Toronto to get into the right timezone. Montreal is not there.
Please read http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/theory.html#naming and the archives of this mailing list for many (many!) previous discussions about the names of timezones. Specifically: Montreal (like other parts of Quebec) has been in the same time zone as Toronto since 1970. If you need (often) correct timestamps before 1970, you may be able to use the data in the `backzone` file, though note the comment about correctness in there.
It doesn't matter much to me but there are some people here who will find it strange. Toronto is like... in another country. It's about History and the French people in Canada...
The boundaries used in the tz database are the boundaries of time zones since 1970. While these boundaries are often in the same place as political boundaries this is not always the case. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information