[Bug 546210] Re: Indian Standard Time needs update

[Yaron]

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

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Title:
  Indian Standard Time needs update

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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

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