[Bug 458331] Re: time-admin doesn't have Brazil's official time zone

[Benjamin Drung]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

As of tzdata 2022g there are following timezones of Brazil:

America/Noronha
America/Belem
America/Santarem
America/Fortaleza
America/Recife
America/Araguaina
America/Maceio
America/Bahia
America/Sao_Paulo
America/Campo_Grande
America/Cuiaba
America/Porto_Velho
America/Boa_Vista
America/Manaus
America/Eirunepe
America/Rio_Branco

See https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html for details about the
naming. Quote from there: "Timezones are typically identified by
continent or ocean and then by the name of the largest city within the
region containing the clocks."

This kind of change must be done via the upstream project instead of
only in Ubuntu. Please contact upstream via the tz at iana.org mailing
list. Expect them to ask for evidence. Having Brasília time publicly
used might convince them to change this timezone name.

I am marking this bug as "Won't Fix" (as in not deviating from the
upstream naming) for the Ubuntu tzdata package. Upstream changes will
trickle down to Ubuntu.

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Won't Fix

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Title:
  time-admin doesn't have Brazil's official time zone

Status in gnome-system-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

  This is a feature request.  Brazil's official time zone, Brasília time
  (GMT -3), is not on Ubuntu's Time Zone list.  This is a very important
  time zone for us, because practically all national events are
  advertised as "X hours, Brasília time".  The current workaround is to
  set it to America/Sao_Paulo, because the city of São Paulo follows the
  country's official time, but Ubuntu would feel a lot more comfortable
  to us brazilians if there was an America/Brasilia time zone to choose.
  Not to mention that, although São Paulo is Brazil's biggest city,
  Brasília is the actual capital, and because it is nowhere near São
  Paulo (they're a thousand km apart), it is not obvious that they share
  the same time zone.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 22 12:40:19 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/time-admin
  Package: gnome-system-tools 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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