Hi there, I was using a tool that allows me to look at people’s birthdate, time and location and noticed that you still have Hong Kong listed as part of the UK with throws off the timezone for their birthdate. I had to choose another city close to Hong Kong to use it correctly. Is this something that can be changed or updated? Or are you keeping it for historical purposes? Is there a way to do both? Thanks for keeping the time so accurately - I appreciate the work you’re doing. Shelley Finerty Canada
Hi, TZ identifiers are generally of the form Continent/City, so Hong Kong is listed as Asia/Hong_Kong. A (non-canonical) list is available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones They are not generally supposed to be exposed to end-users, and it is likely that the tool you are using is mis-presenting this. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 05:30, Shelley Finerty via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Hi there,
I was using a tool that allows me to look at people’s birthdate, time and location and noticed that you still have Hong Kong listed as part of the UK with throws off the timezone for their birthdate. I had to choose another city close to Hong Kong to use it correctly.
Is this something that can be changed or updated? Or are you keeping it for historical purposes? Is there a way to do both?
Thanks for keeping the time so accurately - I appreciate the work you’re doing.
Shelley Finerty Canada
On 3/15/22 07:03, Sanjeev Gupta via tz wrote:
TZ identifiers are generally of the form Continent/City, so Hong Kong is listed as Asia/Hong_Kong.
Yes, and our auxiliary tables (e.g., zone1970.tab) have never listed Hong Kong as part of the UK; they've always associated Asia/Hong_Kong with the ISO 3166-1 country code HK. If your application lists Hong Kong under the UK, I suppose it could be a downstream typo (HK -> UK) but you'd have to contact whoever maintains that application to see what went wrong.
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