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
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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