[Bug 892370] Re: The time zone for China should default to Beijing not Shanghai

[Martin Pitt]

We really don't want a permanent diversion from upstream tzdata;
maintaining this database is quite a huge task, and introducing a delta
will only make us slower to respond to updates and introduce more margin
for error. More importantly, we'll make Ubuntu installations
(/etc/timezone) incompatible with all other systems out there which use
tzdata (which is "everything but Windows").

What seems more realistic is to extend the time zone picker to behave
more like the one from gnome-control-center, where all of the major
cities are being recognized and shown. This could re-use the data from
libgweather (/usr/share/libgweather/Locations.xml) which also provides a
nice type-ahead capability for searching your city.

** Package changed: tzdata (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) => (unassigned)

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Title:
  The time zone for China should default to Beijing not Shanghai

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in OEM Priority Project oneiric series:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu and selecting Simplified Chinese as the default
  language, the default timezone should point to Beijing instead of
  Shanghai.  Everything in China is referenced to Beijing time.  In
  mainland China this standard time is called Beijing Time (北京时间)
  domestically but it is commonly referred to as China Standard Time
  (CST) internationally.

  This seems to have come up a lot in past bugs:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/228554
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/517621

  Steps to recreate:

  1) Install Ubuntu and select Simplified Chinese for the language.

  Actual Results:
  At the timezone page, the default city is Shanghai.

  Expected Results:
  Most Chinese users prefer it be set to Beijing.

  It looks as if the upstream tz database needs to be updated for
  Beijing for starters, as Beijing is not listed in there.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: tzdata 2011n-0ubuntu0.11.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov 18 15:26:03 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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