Nepal timezone spelling
Phil Vandry
vandry at TZoNE.ORG
Thu Dec 4 21:09:46 UTC 2008
Hello,
I propose that the name of the Asia/Katmandu zone be changed to
Asia/Kathmandu. Although Katmandu is an acceptable alternate spelling,
I can attest, having recently returned from a holiday in Nepal,
that it is hardly ever used. In fact, I saw no occurence at all of the
spelling 'Katmandu' while inside the country.
This patch keeps the Katmandu spelling for backward compatibility.
After trying Asia/Kathmandu and then grepping the whole database for
Kathmandu, I nearly concluded that this timezone definition was
missing from the database before finally finding it under the
alternate spelling!
-Phil
--- asia.orig 2008-10-08 08:35:57.000000000 -0400
+++ asia 2008-12-04 16:05:36.000000000 -0500
@@ -1474,7 +1474,7 @@
# Nepal
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
+Zone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
5:30 - IST 1986
5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
--- backward.orig 2008-09-09 22:33:26.000000000 -0400
+++ backward 2008-12-04 16:05:28.000000000 -0500
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad
Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking
Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca
+Link Asia/Kathmandu Asia/Katmandu
Link Asia/Kolkata Asia/Calcutta
Link Asia/Macau Asia/Macao
Link Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv
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