[tz] Add new timezone for Hanoi Capital, Vietnam
Brian Inglis
Brian.Inglis at SystematicSw.ab.ca
Tue Feb 19 15:40:30 UTC 2019
On 2019-02-19 00:53, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:47 PM, Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> wrote:
>> By populations...
>> % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/|wc -l
>> 144
>> % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/|wc -l
>> 99
>> Asia has around 59% of the world's population in 48 countries; the
>> Americas have 14% in 35 countries. Seems quite possible there's scope
>> to improve things in Asia.
> Yes, Asia could split itself into more countries, for example....
> Or perhaps Asian countries are not as crazy as Western Hemisphere countries
> about doing silly things with summer/daylight savings time rules:
> $ egrep '^Rule' northamerica southamerica | wc -l
> 610
> $ egrep '^Rule' asia | wc -l
> 463
> or about having multiple zones per country (China has two, the contiguous 48
> states of the US has four plus various random places that don't do DST):
> $ egrep '^Zone' northamerica southamerica | wc -l
> 140
> $ egrep '^Zone' asia | wc -l
> 61
> I.e., having a lot of stuff in the tzdb for your continent could be
> considered a bug rather than a feature; that is *not* necessarily a sign that
> the tzdb doesn't do a good enough job of covering your continent, it may be
> just a sign that your continent doesn't impose as much of a burden on the
> tzdb....
...also the tzdb requires a documentary reference source for time zone history -
someone to translate that into English - and post it to this list - finding the
former - doing the latter - and posting it here - seems to be a barrier -
perhaps due to language - perhaps lack of interest, involvement, skills to
address the issue, or the combination thereof leading to finding this list?
--
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains
too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.
More information about the tz
mailing list