Comment 6 for bug 228554

2008/10/29 Martin Pitt <email address hidden>

> ForLuck [2008-10-29 1:11 -0000]:
> > Actually, we Chinese people would like to use Asia/Beijing for we're
> > using the Time Zone in our daily life or work but not Asia/Shanghai.
>
> Right, the time zone selector in the GNOME panel should have all the
> big cities. However, in tzdata there is only ever one representative
> city (usually the largest) for a time zone.
>

By the time zone selector in GNOME panel do you also mean the Time/Date
selector in GNOME Adminstration? Because that has Harbin, Chongqing,
Shanghai, Urumqi, Hong Kong and Macau but no Beijing.

Interestingly enough the time zone of Urumqi is officially China Standard
Time (GMT+8). But locally they adopt, unoffically, GMT+6.

Also I'd be interested to know how the tzdata people chose the biggest city,
urban population or municipal population. If it's the latter then Chongqing
is much larger than Shanghai by about 14 million.

regards