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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>To the maintainers of the </span></font><code><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>tz</span></font></code><font
size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>
database,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>We are using the TZ database in our navigation SW,
and we have had feedback from our users in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> that the time zone city names
included do not make sense to local users. Neither <st1:City w:st="on">Harbin</st1:City>,
<st1:City w:st="on">Shanghai</st1:City> nor Chungking (this is a very strange
spelling, it is spelled <st1:City w:st="on">Chongqing</st1:City> in Pinyin) is
used in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>
to indicate a time zone. It would make most sense to remove these 3 entries and
replace them with a single <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beijing</st1:place></st1:City>
entry in the database.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>As HongKong and <st1:State w:st="on">Macao</st1:State>
are <font color=black><span style='color:black'>special administrative regions
(SAR) in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
listing these makes sense.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>For the cities listed that
are located in Xinjiang (Kashgar and <st1:City w:st="on">Urumqi</st1:City>), these
should not be listed as <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region>
only has one official time zone. But in practice Xinjiang uses its own time
zone so keeping these would be better.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Walter Korte<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>TomTom Asia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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