Re: Is there timezone data for any Indian cities such as Mumbai, Dehli, &c.?

Thanks Jim,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Jim Monty <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ted wrote:
> > I looked and couldn't find any names of Indian cities that I recognized:
> > Dehli, New Dehli, Mumbai, Kolkata Bangalore, Madras, Chandigarh,
> Amritsar,
> > &c., &c., &c.  None of the timezones I found beginning with "Indian/" are
> > actually in India.
>
> >
> > So, are Indian timezones supported, using a name I am not aware of, or is
> > there a way to add support for Indian timezones without breaking
> anything?
>
> Yes, of course India is represented in the tz database. It's Asia/Kolkata.
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia/Kolkata.
>
> And here I was looking for Indian/Kolhata


> For a convenient list of all the time zones in the tz database, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones.
>
> Given that it seems the entries are generaly 'continent/city',is there
something in Datetime that will take any city or state and lookup the entry
for the closest city?  Or is that something I'll have to write, based on
lat/lon data for cities (I am pretty sure I saw a database with lat/lon
data for cities somewhere, but ... if it already exists, I don't have to
write it)?


> For everything you ever wanted to know about time and time zones in India,
> start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_India. This article states
> "The IANA time zone database contains only
> one zone, namely Asia/Kolkata."
>
> Read all about the tz database itself in the Wikipedia article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database. The Perl DateTime module
> DateTime::TimeZone uses the tz database.
>
> Jim Monty
>

Thanks again.

Ted.