Bugzilla – Bug 120618
Russian time zones are missing
Last modified: 2005-10-12 12:17:36 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.
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?
Created attachment 51594 [details] screenshot: timezone dialog with Russia region
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.
10.1 means also SLES 10
done
update: the fix was also submited to SLES9-SP3
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.