[tz] [PATCH] Add Asia/Beijing
James M Leddy
james.leddy at canonical.com
Mon Aug 13 19:49:23 UTC 2012
This adds Asia/Beijing to the zone.tab file, as an alias to Shanghai
timezone. This is necessary because it's confusing to Chinese users,
who use the name "Beijing Time", and sometimes "Chinese Standard
Time", but never "Shanghai Time".
Signed-off-by: James M Leddy <james.leddy at canonical.com>
---
asia | 2 ++
zone.tab | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index a02e109..ae3cd55 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -387,6 +387,8 @@ Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
8:00 PRC C%sT
+# Native Chinese users prefer this be called Beijing time
+Link Asia/Shanghai Asia/Beijing
# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;
# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index 6bda826..87ada17 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ CK -2114-15946 Pacific/Rarotonga
CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago most locations
CL -2709-10926 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez
CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala
+CN +3954+11625 Asia/Beijing alias to Asia/Shanghai
CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai east China - Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, etc.
CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang (except Mohe), Jilin
CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China - Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Guizhou, etc.
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