Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 140043
Time Zone wrong setting
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:55 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Hello I am from cyprus. In Date & Time if you go to regional settings in the map near greece and turkey their is an island called cyprus. You have our town located in Asia/Nicosia. Cyprus is in Europe now. I think you should fix this :) Europe/Nicosia Thanx Charalambous Glafkos Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Change Asia/Nicosia to Europe/Nicosia Additional info:
This list comes from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab which references Asia/Nicosia but not Europe/Nicosia. Changing the component. The relevant version here is tzdata-2004e-2.
Please argue about this with tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov which is the only place where this can be changed. Fedora tzdata package will get that change as soon as it makes upstream.
Actually, there is Europe/Nicosia too: The source has: # Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. # However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
Unfortunately I can't use that info in s-c-date because it doesn't make it into /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab...
Which is why that should be discussed with upstream. But I think it is better if the reporter argues with upstream than myself, as I'd have to act only as middle-man, I don't know enough from history about this. The sole fact that Cyprus is now in EU doesn't change anything on whether Cyprus is in Europe or Asia, if Turkey ever makes it into EU, it will still be (mostly) in Asia.
hm.. noo Turkey is in Asia. Cyprus was all the time Greece. The Language spoken is also greek. If Turkey comes in EU it will be in Asia but not Cyprus. Cyprus is Greek. It is just wrong from the start for cyprus to be in Asia. It have to be Europe/Cyprus like other Countries.
Just mail upstream and explain them your arguments then.
I don't know what is upstream and how to contact them and what do I have to tell them exactly?
"Upstream" means the source of the original package, the tarball containing the sources for the package. Jakub, who are the upstream people here? I could only find an FTP URL in the spec file.
See comment #2. Upstream for tzdata is tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov mailing list.