[tz] China time zones 1949 - 1980: appeal to speakers of Mandarin

[J Andrew Lipscomb]

Le 1 juil. 2014 à 02:09, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> a écrit :

> On 2014-04-22 Luther Ma wrote:
> 
>> computers and smart phones list Urumqi (or Kashgar) as having the same time as Beijing.
>> 
>> I don't know why this would be a very big problem to fix. Then users can choose to set their computers or cell phones to Beijing time if they want, or to Xinjiang time if they want (instead of choosing some other locality like Dacca, which works until they go on daylight time.)
> 
> Good point, and thanks for looking into this and forwarding that info. This combines with the problems that Alois Treindl has been reporting for other Chinese time zones.  I did a bit more research on my own into timekeeping practice in Shanghai and came up with the attached proposed patch, which I hope addresses the issues that you and Alois raised. I've installed this into the experimental tz repository on github.
> <0001-Simplify-China-s-time-zones-from-five-to-two.patch>

Isn't this in conflict with what was decided last cycle re: pre-1970 differences (e. g. the Toronto/Montreal mess)?