Fedora - time to blink

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:54 +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:41:08AM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > That guy clearly should read /usr/share/doc/tzdata-2011n/Theory
> > > which explains why cities are chosen instead of region names and when
> > > new timezones need to be added (as has Asia/Hebron been recently added).
> > > Asia/Jerusalem is different from Asia/Hebron or Asia/Gaza in when DST is or
> > > is not observed, either this year or at least in some years since 1970.
> > > The timezone database uses Hebron instead of Ramallah because Hebron
> > > is bigger, similarly how most of China uses Asia/Shanghai instead
> > > of Asia/Beijing.
> > 
> > Now there is news! Hebron is bigger than Ramallah? Not really.
> 
> Of course it is.  Read e.g.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank
> Hebron has population over 160000, Ramallah not even 30000.
> 
> 	Jakub

Well you are right. As someone who has spent a lot of time in the area I
was surprised. But you live and learn. Thanks for straightening me out.
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