Bug 625905

Summary:	Shows Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Calcutta in timezone
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dhaval <dhaval4linux>
Component:	tzdata	Assignee:	Petr Machata <pmachata>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	mnewsome, nphilipp, pmachata
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Description Dhaval 2010-08-20 18:32:01 UTC

Description of problem:
Timezone is not updated in System-Config-Date GUI. Specifically Asia/Kolkata timezone. Actually its Asia/Calcutta. /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta shows perfect file but in System-Config-Date its showing Kolkata


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
System-Config-Date
Name        : system-config-date
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 1.9.59
Release     : 1.fc13
Size        : 3.5 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates

tzdata
Name        : tzdata
Arch        : noarch
Version     : 2010k
Release     : 1.fc13
Size        : 1.8 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : updates


How reproducible:
Install above version of tzdata and System-Config-Date open system-config-date and see timezone Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Calcutta

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install tzdata
2. yum install System-Config-Date
3.
  
Actual results:
Asia/Kolkata

Expected results:
Asia/Calcutta

Additional info:
I had upgraded to Fedora 13 from Fedora 10. I tried to change timezone but its showing Asia/Kolkata if I select that and click on Ok button then it gives error "Couldnt make changes to /etc/ntp.conf or /etc/sysconfig/network file"

Solution:
After Checking some Codes of python script. I found that python script reads timezone from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab file which shows Asia/Kolkata instead of Asia/Calcutta

Comment 1 Nils Philippsen 2010-08-24 09:36:42 UTC

These are two separate issues:

1. The time zone being named "Asia/Kolkata" which is the correct name as far as I can say ("Calcutta" is a formerly used, anglicised name according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata ). I think nothing should be changed, but if at all, this would have to be done in the tzdata component.

2. The error message, which seems to be the same as bug #623237 to me. I've added you onto the CC list of this bug.

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