[ubuntu-in] Bombay is shown with Pakistan Standard Time

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao
<dasaratharao at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All!
> I am slowly catching up with Linux/Ubuntu OS. Currently, I am using Hardy
> Heron. Few problems, but solving them with the help of friends like you. I
> liked the addition of local information in the date/time stamp in desktop. I
> added Bombay as one of my locations. Alas! the time shown is Pakistan
> Standard Time and not IST. The names of locations also require changes.
> Madras should be changed to Chennai and Bombay to Mumbai. Can anyone
> report/fix these bugs please? Thanks.

As far as I know. IST actually maps to Calcutta (Kolkata) time. And
yes the difference between Bombay (Mumbai) time and Karachi time is
less than Bombay time and Calcutta.

I think there have been discussions previously as to if India should
have two timezones considering the the longitudes covered by width of
India i.e distance between east and west extreme ends. I don't
remember where the discussion have been held.
Please correct me if I am wrong.

And for filing bug you are welcome to register at http://launchpad.net
and file a bug there. Of course it will be even better if you can file
a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org itself for the world clock applet.

And yes I admit that the location/timezone entry is not very friendly.
In fact there should be a way to simply put something like UTC+5:30 in
the timezone entry. I will file a feature request for this myself.


Onkar
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