On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 08:09:00AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > But not for the *original* timezone name, right? (which was, imho, the > point of Holger's original proposal).
Right, changing the name of the file on disk would be different. > I don't know exactly how tiezone names are handled upstream. Is there > any kind of standard that's followed or is this just upstream's "inspiration"? There is no formal standard. As I recall, it took a bit of a fight for Asia/Saigon to be renamed to Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh, and that change still didn't satisfy everyone. To the point at hand, I think it would be worthwhile to ask for Ponape to be renamed to Pohnpei. Fernando de Noronha won't work, because it's too long to fit into the field. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100509122403.ga26...@scru.org
