May 2022 - tz - lists.iana.org

Changes to timezone names
by Ростислав Салабай May 12, 2022

May 12, 2022

Good morning! Since Kyiv became an official spelling of the capital of Ukraine, few years have passed. And people more and more use the new spelling, instead of Kiev. That includes large and small news sites, posts of politicians and most social media feeds (seeing Kiev right now is much more rare than Kyiv). Even Wikipedia and Oxford English Dictionary have changed their spellings to Kyiv too, and large companies like Apple follow along. And actually, using Kiev causes more inconvenience for some people than Kyiv, in things that use tz database, as many are unable to find the right timezone (and this isn't something made up, I've seen lots of complains in forums and GitHub issue requests that Kyiv is missing or spelled wrong). Also, the outgoing war in Ukraine has sped up that process of switching Ukraine to Ukrainian-based things, and not Russian ones. So, in my opinion, it's the perfect time to finally ditch Kiev for good, and start using Kyiv (and so the Europe/Kyiv timezone) as the only name for that beautiful city. Rostyslav

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Updates on Iranian Time Zone (IRDT)
by Mohammad Ali Tofighi May 11, 2022

May 11, 2022

Hi. Recently the Iranian parliament has decided to remove daylight saving from the Iranian time zone, eliminating the one-hour shift in the summer time. Hence, it is always going to be UTC+3:30. *This is not their final decision yet* and there is a final confirmation to be made, but I just wanted to inform you about the update to prepare possible modifications. I'm a software engineer and if we have the update on *tzdata* package as soon as possible, the software companies can adjust themselves accordingly. Please read these official news: https://www.isna.ir/news/1400122419045/ https://www.yjc.news/00Xw0k Regards, Ali Tofighi

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Request to provide .tar.gz tarballs for tzdb
by Kim Davies May 6, 2022

May 6, 2022

Dear colleagues, We’ve been asked by this correspondent to forward this request on to this list. In response to the original request we explained the lzip distribution is largely an amalgam of the gzip distributions, and they indicated they still wanted gzip to be considered specifically to increase “availability for low end systems as lzip isn’t that widely supported”: Subject: Provide .tar.gz tarballs for tzdb Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 13:23:15 +0300 From: "Firas Khalil Khana" <firasuke(a)gmail.com> To: iana(a)iana.org Hey there, I've come to notice that both tzcode and tzdata have .tar.gz tarballs but tzdb only has .tar.lz (lzip) tarballs which isn't a commonly used format. Would it be possible to provide gzipped tarballs for tzdb as well? Thanks! -- Kim Davies VP, IANA Services, ICANN President, PTI

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Changes to the tz database
by Shlomi Sasson May 1, 2022

May 1, 2022

hi, i opened this PR <https://github.com/rogierschouten/tzdata-generate/pull/11> on GitHub and I've been told I need to contact you, and specifically Paul Eggert, to fix it. The fix should replace the Ukrainian city Kiev with the official name Kyiv, put Kiev in the legacy zone and add Kyiv to a new zone (per Rogier Schouten <https://github.com/rogierschouten>) Can u pls help me fix that? -- Shlomi Sasson Engineering Group Manager, Bringg +972-52-4440986

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