On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mohan Dasaratha Rao > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
