On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:54 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > 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 Well you are right. As someone who has spent a lot of time in the area I was surprised. But you live and learn. Thanks for straightening me out. -- ======================================================================= If something has not yet gone wrong then it would ultimately have been beneficial for it to go wrong. ======================================================================= 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
