[tz] Add new timezone for Hanoi Capital, Vietnam

KP khaiphan9x at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 07:31:12 UTC 2019


Perhaps national government intervention is needed for this time zone issue

Vào 12:47, Th 3, 19 thg 2, 2019 Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net đã viết:

> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 8:50 PM Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> > KP wrote:
> > > - After merging with Ha Tay, Hanoi (capital) is the largest province in
> > > Vietnam
> >
> > tzdb goes by cities, not provinces. citypopulation.de estimates a
> population for
> > Hanoi (including Ha Tay) that is less than that of Ho Chi Minh City.
> > https://www.citypopulation.de/Vietnam-Cities.html gives 2017 estimates
> of 7.4
> > million for the former, and 8.4 million for the latter. Although both are
> > growing, the ratio of Ho Chi Minh City vs Hanoi (including Ha Tay)
> population
> > also appears to be growing, suggesting that Hanoi is not catching up.
>
> By populations...
>
> % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/|wc -l
>      144
> % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/|wc -l
>       99
>
> Asia has around 59% of the world's population in 48 countries; the
> Americas have 14% in 35 countries. Seems quite possible there's scope
> to improve things in Asia.
>
> Kevin
>
> --
> Kevin Lyda
> Galway, Ireland
>
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