On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 at 19:02, Paul Menzel via tz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I looked for *Doha*, but didn’t find it in GNOME [1]. > Looking through the Time Zone Database archive, there is in `asia` [3]: > > # Bahrain > # Qatar > # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] > Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al > Dawhah / Doha > 4:00 - %z 1972 Jun > 3:00 - %z The zone ID for Doha is indeed named Asia/Qatar, as you found. There are other places named Doha <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doha_(disambiguation)> in Asia, so the name "Qatar" was chosen to avoid ambiguity. This principle is applied in a few other places as well — for example, America/Puerto_Rico instead of "San Juan" and America/Miquelon instead of "St Pierre". is there another way to make it easier for people to find the right time > zone entry? In general, we continue to recommend that end-users use a tool like our tzselect or something similar packaged in their operating system to help find the proper zone ID, rather than perusing through tzdata source code directly. -- Tim Parenti
