On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 04:23:20PM +0700, Jean Christophe André wrote: > The name of "Saigon" (Vietnam) was changed in 1975, after the liberation > from U.S.A., to the name of the Vietnamese President (Hồ Chí Minh) at > that time: Ho Chi Minh City.
The comment from upstream is # Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. # We'll stick with the traditional name for now. > This city was, when the time zone information was created, the "main > city" for Vietnam from the U.S.A. point of view. But now the "main city" > from the Vietnamese government point of view really is "Hanoi" and so > the time zone name really should be changed to "Asia/Hanoi". You may wish to start participating in this mailing list thread to convey your opinion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2122
