On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 12:37 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:08:16AM +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > > still has to sit within that. Hebron as a time zone, no idea why > > Fedora has it, nor why the author takes particular exception to it, > > don't care. > > That guy clearly should read /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2011n/Theory > which explains why cities are chosen instead of region names and when > new timezones need to be added (as has Asia/Hebron been recently added). > Asia/Jerusalem is different from Asia/Hebron or Asia/Gaza in when DST is or > is not observed, either this year or at least in some years since 1970. > The timezone database uses Hebron instead of Ramallah because Hebron > is bigger, similarly how most of China uses Asia/Shanghai instead > of Asia/Beijing. > > Jakub Now there is news! Hebron is bigger than Ramallah? Not really. Sorry that is really OT. The other information included above was interesting and informative. -- ======================================================================= Am I SHOPLIFTING? ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
