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

[Germán Poó-Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 15:54 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:05 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> 
> >     - Mexico: 8 timezones, many <location>s, not divided into <state>s,
> >       so I didn't even try sorting them out. Everything got
> >       America/Mexico_City
> 
> Fixed all of Mexico (added states and capitals).  I'm not sure if I got
> the Mexico/BajaNorte and Mexico/BajaSur timezones correctly; they are in
> my /usr/share/zoneinfo, but check_timezones.sh said they were invalid.

I'm not sure about the criteria selected, but at least the guys in
charge of tzdata uses as criteria the biggest city around, which not
always is the capital or the state (in a federated nation).

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Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile