Bug 263841
Summary: | need a central, central-time city in timezone selector GUI | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michael Williamson <michael> |
Component: | tzdata | Assignee: | Petr Machata <pmachata> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7 | CC: | mnewsome |
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Last Closed: | 2007-08-30 11:51:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Michael Williamson
2007-08-29 15:48:24 UTC
The cities clustered just below Chicago are mosty part of Indiana, where there were a lot of changes, DST-wise as well as zone-wise, historically as well as recently. We need to treat each city separately because zoneinfo (tzdata) are are also historical database, and historical records for these cities differ. So the reason why only Chicago is here to represent Central time is that there were no historical breakups in this region that would warrant stuffing more cities into the database. Actually, what zoneinfo does, is that it provides generic identifiers, that only happen to match names of the cities (because it's convenient from the maintenance point of view). If there is a need e.g. to display exact geographical, country or state boundaries, list all cities, filter cities according to some rule (e.g. to address the Chicago cluster which may be irrelevant today), this calls for a project that would define and *maintain* independent list that maps to the generic zoneinfo identifiers. I don't see this going to happen inside upstream zoneinfo project. |