<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491811245271_247594">I'll put in a plug for my project timezone-boundary-builder (https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder). timezone-boundary-builder does attempt to exactly quantify the geographic boundaries of timezones in the timezone database. Maybe it can help you design some software that chooses the right timezone.<br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, 13 April 2017, 2:22, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div dir="ltr"> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:42:20 +0800<br clear="none"> From: gfb hjjhjh <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:c933103@gmail.com" href="mailto:c933103@gmail.com">c933103@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"> Message-ID: <CAGHjPPLow5kkwBmSTb=<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:-P-M4W27Pgd1VXzCZLfhA-PpMeumHWQ@mail.gmail.com" href="mailto:-P-M4W27Pgd1VXzCZLfhA-PpMeumHWQ@mail.gmail.com">-P-M4W27Pgd1VXzCZLfhA-PpMeumHWQ@mail.gmail.com</a>><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> | Yeah, however in the current situation when manufacturer choose to default<br clear="none"> | the time in Xinjiang to UTC+8, UTC+6-users in the region can only pick for<br clear="none"> | example some Russian cities in their device to force their devices to use<br clear="none"> | UTC+6,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Then you should complain to the maunfacturer (of the software, not necessarily<br clear="none">hardware, though you might need to go through the latter to get to the former)<br clear="none">about how things are shipped, and the defaults chosen.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This project locates what timezones exist, and makes zones (in the database)<br clear="none">for each of them. If a zone is missing from the tz database, or contains<br clear="none">incorrect (time/date) data (please don't complain about names...) then<br clear="none">we would love to receive corrections, particularly if supported by some kind<br clear="none">or verifiable evidence (but even rumors can be useful as a starting point.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Once the zones exist, users (either end users who install this themselves<br clear="none">or system manufactures/integrators) are free to apply them however, and in<br clear="none">whatever manner they like - we have neither control, nor even influence over<div class="yqt5106828944" id="yqtfd24284"><br clear="none">that.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">The closest we come is with tzselect (which some, including me, believe is<br clear="none">really outside the scope of this project, and shouldn't be included at all.)<br clear="none">But in this case, that should/would work for what you want, had the<br clear="none">manufacturer chosen to use it (but it is a fairly primitive interface, and<br clear="none">it is understandable why they would prefer something better.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Note: it is entirely possible that some manufacturers might choose not to<br clear="none">risk upsetting the Chinese authorities by admitting the existance of a<br clear="none">time zone in China that the authorities would prefer to believe does not exist.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Again, there is nothing that we can do about that ... your only real<br clear="none">recourse (if a simple bug report to the manufacturer does not change things)<br clear="none">is for affected users to refuse to buy products from manufacturers who<br clear="none">refuse to support them properly, and hope that the economic consequences<br clear="none">will sway the manufacturer ... or to convince the authorities that having<br clear="none">a single time zone for all of China is not the best approach, so a policy<br clear="none">change could allow everyone to be happy.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Again none of that is anything this project can assist with.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">kre<div class="yqt5106828944" id="yqtfd08873"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>