On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:41:08AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > 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. > > Now there is news! Hebron is bigger than Ramallah? Not really. Of course it is. Read e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank Hebron has population over 160000, Ramallah not even 30000. Jakub -- 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
