<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 08/14/2012 03:49 AM, James M Leddy wrote:<br>
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> * The common proposed fix is that we should be using "human<br>
> presentable" names and have a mapping from these names to the<br>
> actual timezones. Since that proposal, indeed since the inception<br>
> of desktop Linux/Unix, no one (as far as I know) has actually done<br>
> this<br>
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</div>I happened to read this on my laptop which runs Ubuntu 12.04 and uses<br>
the tz database. I clicked on the time in the upper right-hand part<br>
of my screen, clicked on "Time & Date Settings", typed "Beijing", and<br>
it automatically changed my desktop to Beijing Time aka CST.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br><br>For whatever it is worth, on Mac OS X (10.7.4), the System Preferences Time & Date panel allows you to choose the time zone by clicking on a world map. Clicking on one place in China came up with a name like 'Yueying - China' , so I typed 'Beijing - China' and that was accepted (and the highlighted location moved nearer to where Beijing actually is).<br>
<br>So, Apple has done this job on Mac OS X, I think.<br><br>That's not a definitive for or against the addition — it is just a data point for consideration.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>
Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2011.0612 - <a href="http://dbi.perl.org" target="_blank">http://dbi.perl.org</a><br>"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."<br>