Indian Standard Time needs update

[Nicholas]

Binary package hint: tzdata

Hi,

I would like to suggest important updates to the Indian Time Zone (IST).

1. The timezone is sometimes listed as Asia/Calcutta. There are three things wrong with using "Calcutta". A] The city is now Kolkata (I think I have seen Asia/Kolkata somewhere). B] Kolkata is no longer the largest city in India. C] No time-keeping related activity is associated with Kolkata. (IST is measured from Mirpur, near Allahabad) So, instead of using Kolkata, please change it to the capital city, New Delhi.

2. In the list of Indian cities, the old city names are present, and not the new. It's been 15 years since some of the city names have been changed, but no such updates are seen in Ubuntu. eg, Bombay > Mumbai, Calcutta > Kolkata, Madras > Chennai, Bangalore > Bengaluru. Instead of deleting the old names, I would suggest that new entries be copied from the old names so that Bombay and Mumbai both exist.

I am interested in adding more Indian cities to the list of available cities in India when selecting a time zone. How do I do this?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 25 01:31:31 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: tzdata 2010e-0ubuntu0.9.10
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: tzdata
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Yaron (sh-yaron)]

Please forward this request to the IANA timezone committee:
http://www.iana.org/time-zones

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I checked tzdata 2022g. There we have Asia/Kolkata. So your point A was addressed.

I am marking this bug as fixed. If there are issues remaining, please contact the upstream mailing list <email address hidden> to get it fixed there. The fix will then trickle down to Ubuntu.