User:CyclePat/UTC Timezone

Introduction

A categorization of cities by their UTC timezone is part of the Category:Geography by time. Please note: this category does not reflect the current time of these cities but only the time zones in to which editors of the {{template:Infobox cities}} have "truthfully" filled out the sections. To find out if these cities are observing DST please consult their respective article page or search for "DST +<corresponding country name>" in google. For more information please see UTC, DST and {{template:infobox city}}.

Table of contents and searching

You may browse the categories in several maners, however we sugest you utilize the following table of contents if you wish to find a specific city.

FAQ

Q.: A city article has been categorized and it appears at the bottom of that article but why doesn't the city name appear within the category?

A.:Please note that recent additions of categories may not be shown within the sub-categories for 24 hours due to wikipedia's servers. If you wish for a specific city article to appear "immediatelly", open that article for editing and re-save it.

Q.: What is the use of having articles that utilize the "infobox city template" to automatically categorize cities within their respective UTC and DST UTC category?

A.: Currently the only way to know what articles utilize the infobox city template is to click the what links here. The what links here is a good tool but it is a far cry from the ability of categories. One advantage to categories is the ability to add a table of contents and to easily browse through the large list of cities. To see the full advantages and possibilities of categories please visit WP:Categories. Furthermore, this category can be used to help establish a list of various cities withing different timezones. More importantly it can help identify anomolies. Take for example Carmel, New York which, at one point in time, appeared within this main category. This location was a town at the time and should not have been utilizing the {{template:infobox city}}. Respectivelly it should have utilized it's own "infobox town" template. Similarly this category may help identify a list of other villages, towns, territories, Indian reserves, etc. which should utilise their own template. Another example of usefulness is to know exactly which cities that actually need to have a timezone added to their template. If you take a look at the bottom of this category you will see 200+ cities that require maintenance in adding the UTC time. Please add this information if you have the time.

Q.: The category for a city, which is a UTC+ area, doesn't display properly. It says {{category:Cities in the UTC1 timezone}} instead of {{category:Cities in the UTC+1 timezone}}. How can I fix this?

A.: This problem occured with the city Cairo, Algiers and several other cities. To fix the problem we added a | at the end of the utc_offset (See Algiers example) and the utc_offset_DST = +3 |.(See Cairo example) This problem is caused by some cities which utilize the infobox template with some extra spaces. The two afformentioned cities have spaces inbetween the | and "sub-parser category". (Example:"| official_name = Cairo/Ciaro") Furthermore, if you take a look at the Gothenburg article there is no problem in displaying the UTC+ category. This is because there are no spaces inbetween | and the "offical_name" or any of the | and "sub-parser categories". (Example:"|official_name = Gothenburg")

Q.: How do you plan to deal with the problem that several countries change Daylight Savings Time (DST) at different times? And, some countries don't even use DST!

A.: That is correct some countries don't even use DST. There really is no problem here except for perhaps on how wikipedians interpret the two different UTC and DST UTC category names. Some wikipedians may be confused with the wording of the category. For example "Cities in the UTC-5 timezone" may imply that a city such as Ottawa should currently be within UTC-5, when in fact Ottawa could be observing DST. The misconception is that perhaps these categories should reflect the "current status" of these cities. (See WP:CCT for such a project) This is not at all the case and is not necessary. The categories reflect the idea that such cities, at any given time, (generally determined by there country) can and may be observing the UTC timezone to which they have been categorized. Though this is clarified within the wikipedia article on UTC and DST this must and will be stated and clarified at the top of every UTC and DST UTC city category. Note: From the "second Sunday in March" Ottawa and all cities in North America begins to observe DST.[1] Issues on implementing a current city time are being discussed at WP:CCT.

List of UTC sub-categories

List of places in the UTC-5 timezone

Please help sort and begin these categories. Please help fix the minor errors which exist do to minor typos in the infobox template design of certain article. (Ex.: category UTC2 vs. category UTC+2)

Other categories

The following categories are created when there are no expressions being used in the UTC or DST UTC.