Comment 7 for bug 228554

I don't know how tzdata evaluate the largest city in the time zone, however, Beijing is capital of China, where held 2008 Olympic games, and it IS large enough.

And the problem is even not so related to the size of the city, however, there is actually no Shanghai timezone in China. China government officially use GMT+8 in Beijing time zone as standard time in the country since maybe 50 years ago. I don't know where tzdata come from, but obviously out of date.

Since "Beijing local time", GMT+8, is the standard time for whole the country, it is very strange to choose other city in the time zone, no matter how large the city is. So, Beijing should be the REQUIRED city in the time zone, since it is standard time in China, and other city like Shanghai, Chongqing, may be OPTIONAL cities.

So, please add Beijing to the TimeZone. if tzdata don't, ubuntu should.