Redundant city name entry for timezone selection

[hudatoriq]

There are two cities inside continents-cities.php file that refer to a single city. 'Ujung Pandang' is the old name of 'Makassar'.

The timezone database used by PHP still consider both Asia/Makassar & Asia/Ujung_Pandang as valid timezone strings. But if we use the city list as an interface, it's better to merge them. Let's only use one of the timezone string.

This page states 'Makassar is also known as Ujung Pandang'
​http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=653

'Ujung Pandang' on wikipedia redirects to 'Makassar'
​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujung_Pandang

[nbachiyski]

Your patch won't leave out the string. It just will disable its translation.

If you really want to remove the string, you have to patch wp_timezone_choice().

I don't see the point in removing old names of cities. Is it really important? Aren't there any people who know it under its old name?

[Otto42]

The timezone cities list comes directly from your PHP installation, not WordPress. If you want an up-to-date list, you need to upgrade your PHP installation.

[hakre]

The section in the PHP Manual is ​the Date and Time PHP extension, you find more info in the ​List of Supported Timezones. It infact is based on ​PECL timezonedb which is based on ​the "Olson" database. Please contact your servers administrator for a fix.