[tz] Adding Asia/Beijing timezone into the database

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sat Dec 10 07:30:06 UTC 2011


JJS <jjs.global at gmail.com> writes:

> In light of the above, and simply as someone who often has to take
> different time zones into account, I suggest that, for practical
> reasons, Taiwan 臺灣 (or 台湾
> <http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E6%B9%BE> in simplified
> orthography) and at least the city of Taipei 臺北 (台北) be given the
> same treatment as, say, Beijing 北京, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Perth, or
> Singapore.

Asia/Taipei is already there, so far as I can tell, for the standard
reason that its time has varied from other zones since 1970.  Maybe you
didn't check the database before sending this message?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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