Re: help needed with non-US time zones for clock applet

[Germán Poó-Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 16:26 -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
> (Specifically, if you live in [or are knowledgeable about] AR, AU, BR,
> CA, CN, CD, GL, ID, KZ, MY, MX, RU, UA, or UZ, please read this. Thanks :)
> 
> Vincent has just committed the patches to fix the "clock applet guesses
> 
> the wrong timezone" bug, but this relies on
> libgweather/data/Locations.xml.in having the correct timezones listed
> for various places.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
>     - Argentina: /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab lists 11 zones, though
> 
>       Wikipedia claims that there is only a single zone for the entire
>       country. It's possible that the other 10 zones reflect historical
>       distinctions that are no longer relevant. I assigned the whole
> 
>       country to America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires. Is this right?
> 
> Argentina it.s ok with the time_zone from Buenos Aires (GMT-3)

Currently Argentina has only one official hour for the whole country,
which also means one time zone.  UTC-0300 in Standard Time, UTC-0200
in Daylight Saving Time.

The Navy in Argentina is in charge of their official time:
http://www.hidro.gov.ar/ / http://www.hidro.gov.ar/Hora/Hora.asp

Regards,

-- 
Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile