Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Rename the city (calcutta) to kolkata in India #109

Open
vkante opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 1 comment
Open

Rename the city (calcutta) to kolkata in India #109

vkante opened this issue Jan 9, 2025 · 1 comment

Comments

@vkante
Copy link

vkante commented Jan 9, 2025

Calcutta is no longer a city in India now. It's name was changed to Kolkata 20 years ago. please correct Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata.

https://github.com/manuelmhtr/countries-and-timezones/blob/dev/src/data.json#L572

@AlyoshaVasilieva
Copy link

Asia/Kolkata is already in the data:

"Asia/Kolkata": { "u": 330, "c": ["IN"] },

Asia/Calcutta is an alias to it.

tzdb contains backward compatibility aliases, see file backward in the original tzdb data which contains a link from Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata.

https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming

If a name is changed, put its old spelling in the 'backward' file as a link to the new spelling. This means old spellings will continue to work. Ordinarily a name change should occur only in the rare case when a location's consensus English-language spelling changes; for example, in 2008 Asia/Calcutta was renamed to Asia/Kolkata due to long-time widespread use of the new city name instead of the old.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants