The wiki's timezones?

[SketchSlayer]

Just curious what's up with the way the wiki lists timezones, took a while to hunt mine down as it lists New Zealand's timezone as Pacific/Auckland, When Auckland is neither the country nor capital, just a large city.

I mean surely if it was to reference a city instead of the country it'd go for the capital no?
Sorry if this is the wrong place to be asking.

[MayImilae]

Here is my official wiki admin response!

[Shonumi]

Whatever the time zone, anything that references it can point to any city/country within that time zone. In the U.S. Central Standard Time (UTC -6) generally refers to Chicago, and down south generally refers to Mexico City. Obviously Chicago is not the capital of Illinois, but Mexico City is a capital.

It comes down to what city is most easily identifiable in a given time zone. I've never been to New Zealand; I know nothing about it, not even the slightest bit of its geography. I have know idea what the capital is without googling it. However, I have heard of Auckland here or there, for whatever reason. People use major and memorable cities in a region so time zones can be selected easily even by people who aren't entirely familiar with certain areas. E.g. if you want to set up your time zone in GNU/Linux with KDE, just select the city you best recognize:

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[leolam]

The wiki likely uses the tz database, which is often used with GNU/Linux systems. Here's a full list of them.