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

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

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.

tzdata includes lots of backward-compatibility links so as to not break
systems using old names, but check_timezones.sh only accepts the current
zone names (from zone.tab). In this case, Mexico/BajaNorte ->
America/Tijuana, and Mexico/BajaSur -> America/Mazatlan.

-- Dan