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

[Onkar Shinde]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Vivek Khurana <hiddenharmony at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for corrections. I found this also on wikipedia. Should have
searched before replying. :-)

>  <snip>
>
> >  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.

I second that. I initially thought that showing PST was fine. But even
wikipedia says that timezone used is IST.
By the way, following is an interesting read for problems related to
single timezone -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Standard_Time#Problems


Onkar
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