GeoPlanet is now returning the current Olson time zone name for India.

Eddie Babcock
Y! Geo

--- In yws-geo@yahoogroups.com, "v1cch1" <garyg@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> We have refreshed the timezone names in our latest software release;
this is not currently
> publicly available but will be made so as part of our next public
push of updates.
>
> As soon as this is available we'll let you know.
>
> Regards
>
> Gary Gale
> Yahoo! Geo Technologies Group
>
> --- In yws-geo@yahoogroups.com, "v1cch1" <garyg@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In yws-geo@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Murdock" <dave.murdock@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > Thanks for bringing this to our attention; this is a great problem
report as it provides
> not
> > only a description of what you've found but also lots of
additional data and examples.
> >
> > I've passed this onto our Geo Data Engineers and they're looking
into it now.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gary Gale
> > Yahoo! Geo Technologies Group
> >
> > > If you make a call like this:
> > > http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/28350818?appid=[yourappid]
> > >
> > > that is supposed to return the the time zone for India. This
used to be Asia/Calcutta,
> > but
> > > has been renamed to Asia/Kolkata. However, GeoPlanet is still
returning Asia/Calcutta
> > as
> > > the time zone name for any city in India. Doing this:
> > >
> > >
http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/2295411/belongtos?appid=[yourappid]
> > >
> > > That is the woeid for Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. The time
zone listed is
> > > Asia/Calcutta.
> > >
> > > The popular tz database, http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm,
has Asia/Kolkata
> as
> > > the current time zone name for India. A number of other
development frameworks,
> e.g.
> > Cocoa on OS X and Cocoa Touch on the iPhone, use the most up to
date version of the
> tz
> > > database to get time zone names and data. A mismatch like this
makes it more
> difficult
> > to
> > > integrate the data from the GeoPlanet service with these frameworks.
> > >
> > > Is there are workaround, other than me writing my own logic in
these cases, to get
> the
> > > newest time zone names?