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Re: [tz] Europe/Kiev update for 1992-1995
by Doug Ewell June 26, 2022

June 26, 2022

Євген Доманський wrote: > 'Kyiv' has been used word-wide as the only correct Latin spelling of > Ukrainian city since the V century. 'Kiev' was only used in soviet > union and russia for a relatively small period of time. > Here is a example of the book written in 1570 - see KYIV You accidentally attached a picture of a book written in Greek, in the Greek script. I'm sure you meant to attach one that had something to do with English and the Latin script. -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org

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Error in Ukraine time zone
by Євген Доманський June 26, 2022

June 26, 2022

Dear All It has been 19 169 days since IANA time zone database has an error for Ukraine time zone. Be brave to support Ukraine in the war against russia and correct the mistake as quickly as possible. Thank you *Yevhen Domanskyi* *Study Coordinator* Department of Oncology and Medical Radiology Dnipro State Medical University 31, Blyzhnya Str., Dnipro, 49102, Ukraine *Mobile*: +380 93 060 26 92 *e-mail: *dom.eugene(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.sitetv.net/ <http:/www.sitetv.net/>

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Kyiv not Kiev error
by Євген Доманський June 24, 2022

June 24, 2022

Dear All There is an error in name of the capital city of Ukraine - Kiev ('Київ' in Ukrainian language). Kiev is the transliteration of the city name from Russian language. The only correct transliteration is Kyiv. Please update the name. Best regards. *Yevhen Domanskyi* *Study Coordinator* Department of Oncology and Medical Radiology Dnipro State Medical University 31, Blyzhnya Str., Dnipro, 49102, Ukraine *Mobile*: +380 93 060 26 92 *e-mail: *dom.eugene(a)gmail.com Website: http://www.sitetv.net/ <http:/www.sitetv.net/>

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Change Request: Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv
by Oleksandr Leskiv June 23, 2022

June 23, 2022

The history of timezones has some existing cases where a specific timezone has been renamed. For example, the *Asia/Calcutta* timezone has been deemed obsolete and replaced by *Asia/Kolkata*. In Ukraine, according to international standards, there is a timezone called *Europe/Kiev*. The capital of Ukraine is officially and internationally should be spelled as "Kyiv". "Kiev" is an incorrect version that emerged a long time before the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. We have a really large community of programmers that would like to start the process of renaming the Europe/Kiev timezone to Europe/Kyiv. We understand that it will take a long time for everybody to transition, but it has to be done in the long term. Sincerely, Oleksandr. TakeUsEat.

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time zone boundaries contributing to higher traffic fatalities
by BASTIAN Michelle June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

Hi all, I thought you might be interested in this recent paper on time zone boundaries and links with traffic fatalities - just published in Time & Society https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0961463X221104675 Living in the wrong time zone: Elevated risk of traffic fatalities in eccentric time localities Jeffery Gentry, Jayson Evaniuck, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Ivana Mali Abstract Chronobiology research has uncovered a host of maladies linked to social jetlag (SJL), the sleep-disrupting disconnect between solar time and social time. This interdisciplinary study applies chronobiology theory to the potential effect of misaligned time zones on motor-vehicle deaths. In the U.S. 53 million residents live in counties located outside their official time zones' standard 15° span of longitude, based on degrees west of the prime meridian. We refer to these counties as eccentric time localities (ETLs), all of which lie west of their time zones' standard western border in the U.S. In contrast, counties within 7.5° of their time zone's standard geographic center are what we call solar zones. Solar zones do not vary more than 30 minutes from true solar time. ETL residents are forced to rise before dawn, possibly restricting their sleep-time and suppressing both morning and evening zeitgebers that would support their circadian entrainment. Hypothesizing that living in ETLs amplifies social jetlag, data on 417,399 traffic fatalities in the U.S. between 2006 and 2017 from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) census were analyzed via GIS mapping and population-data statistics. Road fatalities among residents of solar zones were compared to those living in ETLs within the same official time zone. ETL residents across the U.S. indicated 21.8% higher fatality-rates than solar residents, with a mean of 1286 additional (i.e., unexpected) deaths-per-year. Results support circadian entrainment theory and are consistent with the SJL construct. The socio-political ramifications of these findings are discussed, as well as the subject of best practices when analyzing whole-population data. The authors conclude that the unquestioned rhetoric of time-zone boundaries should be reconsidered in social policy. Best, Michelle. --- Dr Michelle Bastian Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities ESALA, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Mid-Career Fellow, Independent Social Research Foundation (Project info<https://www.isrf.org/fellows-projects/michelle-bastian/>) (2021-2022) Associate Professor II, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo (2022-2024) Level 1, Room 303B, The Maltings | Minto House, 20-22 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JZ | 0131 651 5779 Work hours: I normally work 8am-4pm M-F. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Invalid tm handling in %s pattern in strftime
by Almaz Mingaleev June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022

Hi Paul, https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/8b238ec54c09556eb2aa405c1741eedfd12c4a8… added validation of tm argument. I wonder why localtime_r call is done: 1) According to the man page mktime sets errno if tm is invalid. Why is it not safe to just check errno value (saving and restoring it if needed)? 2) man page says that in error case mktime "returns (time_t) -1 and does not alter the members of the broken-down time structure". Wouldn't it be enough to check that tm.tm_yday is >= 0? Thanks, Almaz

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Subject: Re: Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?
by nadir altinbas June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022

@ Topic 4. Re: Change Turkey to Turkiye or not? (Ian Abbott) i am resident in Istanbul, Istanbul is a city where a bridge of between Europe and Asia? most of the part of istanbul city is in Europe side. Telephony numbering coding system for PBX Europe is 0212 and Asia 0216 begins. Turkey -Turkiye- Turquie (Tr) name can be positined name as it Tr /Turkiye-Istanbul (Europe -Asia) ....... This is my idea. regards , nadir ALTINBAS nadiraltinbas(a)yahoo.com n.altinbas

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Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?
by 柳芯宇 June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022

In some of the tz files, I found several mentions of "Turkey", this could be confusing since in my dictionaries, Turkey points to a food made by chicken, rather than a country. As recently UN and NATO suggests, I think it would be better and more representative to use Turkiye instead of Turkey, as we shound't setup times for just foods, right?

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Re: [tz] Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?
by Doug Ewell June 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

柳芯宇 wrote: > In some of the tz files, I found several mentions of "Turkey", this > could be confusing since in my dictionaries, Turkey points to a food > made by chicken, rather than a country. I checked with a few turkeys (the bird) and they objected loudly to the notion that they are actually chickens. All joking aside: 1. The country has been known in English as "Turkey" for centuries, and although this has certainly given rise to some jokes, no one is genuinely confused when the word is used in context. 2. The identifier in the tz database which has by far the greatest visibility and relevance to users is "Europe/Istanbul", which avoids the issue altogether. 3. The rule name "Turkey" is comparatively invisible to most users, and there does not seem to be any mechanism for changing rule names, as there is for zone identifiers. 4. Any other mentions, such as in comments, can be changed freely, but there seems little point in doing so, at least at this time. > As recently UN and NATO suggests, I think it would be better and more > representative to use Turkiye instead of Turkey, as we shound't setup > times for just foods, right? "Turkiye" is not the name of the country in any language; the Turkish name is spelled "Türkiye" with diaeresis. -- Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org

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Historical data for Iran
by Roozbeh Pournader June 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

Hi, The timezone database currently lists Iran switching to standard time in 1946. I've been doing some research on the history of the adoption of standard time by Iran, and while it's very hard to find much, I found that the correct date is actually 1935. Here's an order from the Cabinet to the rest of the government to switch to Tehran time, which is mentioned to be already at +03:30: https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/180138 Just in case that goes away, I also saved a copy at archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220530111940/https://qavanin.ir/Law/TreeText/… Here's my translation: "Circular on Matching the Hours of Governmental and Official Circles in Provinces Approved 1314/03/22 [=1935-06-13] According to the ruling of the Honorable Cabinet, it is ordered that from now on in all internal provinces of the country, governmental and official circles set their time to match Tehran time (three hours and half before Greenwich). It is required to mind the above order. For Minister of Judiciary, Dr Matin-Daftari" Now, I still haven't found out when Tehran itself switched to +03:30 (let's assume some time earlier in 1935), but it is clear that standard time in Iran started on 1935-06-13 and not 1946. Thanks, Roozbeh

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