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

[Vivek Khurana]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

 Nope, IST actually maps to time in Mirzapur U.P. and not Kolkata.
What you are referring to is "Calcutta time" used by rail companies
during pre-independance era.

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>  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.
>

 Well showing Mumbai time as PST is a bug definitely and OP should
file a bug. The gnome time is br0ken.

regards
VK
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