Oh, and I forgot... French Canada uses "cf" as console keyboard, and "ca_enhanced" in
X-windows.
Jean-Michel
Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> 'French (Canada)' => 'Canada/Eastern'
> 'English (Canada)' => 'Canada/Eastern'
> The right setting is Canada/Eastern. That covers 90% of the target. Our Capital,
> Ottawa is in the middle of that timezone.
>
> For USA, we should take the timezone of Washington DC. For most countries, the
> timezone is named by the Capital, so why not follow that pattern?
> 'English (USA)' => 'USA/Eastern'
>
> Jean-Michel
>
> Gr�goire Colbert wrote:
>
> > Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> > >
> > > >ok, now it is:
> > > >
> > > >(please, add the addings in place, so that i can take the final list ;-)
> > >
> > > 'English (USA)' # This one won't make anyone happy...
> >
> > Well, let's say the timezone of Alaska... =)
> >
> > > 'English (UK)' => 'Europe/London'
> > > 'French (France)' => 'Europe/Paris'
> > > 'French (Belgium)' => 'Europe/Brussels'
> > > 'French (Canada)' => 'Canada/Newfoundland' # or Atlantic ? or Eastern ?
> >
> > I think "Eastern" would be better since Qu�bec is on the east... Someone to
> > correct me?
> >
> > > 'German (Germany)' => 'Europe/Berlin'
> > > 'Hungarian' => 'Europe/Budapest'
> > > 'Icelandic' => 'Atlantic/Reykjavik'
> > > 'Indonesian' => 'Asia/Jakarta'
> > > 'Italian (Italy)' => 'Europe/Rome'
> > > 'Italian (San Marino)' => 'Europe/San_Marino'
> > > 'Italian (Vatican)' => 'Europe/Vatican'
> > > 'Italian (Switzerland)' => 'Europe/Zurich'
> > > 'Japanese' => 'Asia/Tokyo'
> > > 'Norwegian (Bokmaal)' => 'Europe/Oslo'
> > > 'Norwegian (Nynorsk)' => 'Europe/Oslo'
> > > 'Portuguese (Brazil)' => 'Brazil/East' # most people live on the east coast
> > > 'Portuguese (Portugal)' => 'Europe/Lisbon'
> > > 'Romanian' => 'Europe/Bucharest'
> > > 'Russian' => 'Europe/Moscow'
> > > 'Slovak' => 'Europe/Bratislava'
> > > 'Spanish (Spain)' => 'Europe/Madrid'
> > > 'Turkish' => 'Europe/Istanbul'
> > > 'Ukrainian' => 'Europe/Kiev'
> > > 'Walon' => 'Europe/Brussels'
> > >
> > > PS: are all these Italian's needed? Thought Vatican and Italy would be the same
> > > for everything...
> > >
> > > timzeonz are sometimes strange; during WWII Monaco (and Vichy) have
> > > different hour (same as London) than Paris (same as Berlin).
> > >
> > > But if, as I think it, you plan to make a first guess of the timezone
> > > from the choosen locale; then there are only it_IT and it_CH locales in
> > > Linux.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ki �a vos v�ye b�n,
> > > Pablo Saratxaga
> > >
> > > http://www.ping.be/~pin19314/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975
