Bug 120618

Summary: Russian time zones are missing
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Peter Albrecht <peter.albrecht>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Alpha 1   
Target Milestone: Alpha 2   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: screenshot: timezone dialog with Russia region

Description Peter Albrecht 2005-10-06 12:42:13 UTC 
Most of the Russian time zones are missing. There are only three time zones
listed in YaST. All of the Russian time zones can be found in
/usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab. The concern is about taking care of daylight
savings time, this will not be handled correctly when using global time zones
like UTC+8.
Comment 1 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-06 13:10:25 UTC 
OK, I can add them to yast2-country.

I can add the to the specific regions (Europe and Asia), however it looks like
it  would be nice to have special "Russia" region. It is easy to do it at YaST
level, which would only hide those Europe/Asia regions from user and present him
Russia region and all russian time zones under this region, while the system
would still use the values like Asia/Krasnoyarsk or Europe/Moscow.

However - as Russia is quite specific, being a 2-continent country - it might be
a good idea to introduce Russia region officialy, as a new directory in
/usr/share/zoneinfo. Thorsten, what do you think of this? Does it mean too much
work upstream?

Another question - also for Thorsten: I would suggest to move this to
10.1/SLES10 product line. Or do you want to have it fixed in SP3?
Comment 2 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-06 13:12:04 UTC 
Created attachment 51594 [details]
screenshot: timezone dialog with Russia region
Comment 3 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-10-06 13:48:10 UTC 
1. We will not do that for SP3.

2. I have no influence on the people who define the zoneinfo data.
   This are not open source developers.
Comment 4 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-06 13:56:09 UTC 
10.1 means also SLES 10
Comment 5 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-07 09:32:36 UTC 
done
Comment 6 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-12 12:11:00 UTC 
update: the fix was also submited to SLES9-SP3
Comment 7 Jiří Suchomel 2005-10-12 12:17:36 UTC 
One more clarification: fix for SLES9-SP3 doesn't present new "Russia" region as
presented in comment #2 (this will be only available in SL10.1/SLES10), but only
adds missing time zones to appropriate Europe and Asia regions.