Garrett Wollman: Many time-zone regions do not have a `capital' of any sort. To give just one example, the time zone `America/Los_Angeles' has three `capitals': Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia. None of these are obvious choices. `America/Chicago' has even more possibilities.
Dunno, the book "The world almanac and book of facts", World Almanac Books, 1998, gives on page 542 a list of US state capitals with Sacramento as the only capital of California, Springfield (not Chicago) as capital of Illinois, etcetera. Good maps will also show the one and only capital of states. For US states with 2 or more timezones, one could use the most populous county seats or courthouses. For instance, Indiana has 92 counties to choose from (ibid, page 424). The same information can be found (elsewhere) for Canada. But I think it's a bit futile to rework the whole tz database only for the sake of being administratively correct. Here and there a couple of obvious corrections won't hurt. But one may have a different opinion. Oscar van Vlijmen 2000-09-28
Many time-zone regions do not have a `capital' of any sort. To give just one example, the time zone `America/Los_Angeles' has three `capitals': Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia. None of these are obvious choices. `America/Chicago' has even more possibilities.
Dunno, the book "The world almanac and book of facts", World Almanac Books, 1998, gives on page 542 a list of US state capitals with Sacramento as the only capital of California, Springfield (not Chicago) as capital of Illinois, etcetera. Good maps will also show the one and only capital of states.
i think you misunderstand. the timezone that is now desribed by the file America/Los_Angeles, has three states in it with three different capitals -- sacramento, salem, and olympia -- any one of which would be a "good choice" if time zones were to be named after capitals instead of population centers. with America/Chicago (and american central time) there are lots of choices of capitals, but only one really large population center. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
At 00:20 +0200 2000-09-28, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
Garrett Wollman: Many time-zone regions do not have a `capital' of any sort. To give just one example, the time zone `America/Los_Angeles' has three `capitals': Sacramento, Salem, and Olympia. None of these are obvious choices. `America/Chicago' has even more possibilities.
Dunno, the book "The world almanac and book of facts", World Almanac Books, 1998, gives on page 542 a list of US state capitals with Sacramento as the only capital of California, Springfield (not Chicago) as capital of Illinois, etcetera. Good maps will also show the one and only capital of states.
Yes, the only capital of California, but America/Los_Angeles covers (at least the major part of) the states of Oregon and Washington as well (and parts of Canada and Mexico?). America/Chicago I'm pretty sure _excludes_ nearly all of Illinois, including Springfield (if not, then it applies only to most of Illinois). --Alex
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