Unlike the status of Jerusalem vis-a-vis Israel, there has not yet been a unanimous decision by the Security Council and General Assembly concerning the independance of Kosovo. I agree it should not yet be listed as a separate country at this point. On 2013-05-20 14:26, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
Kosovo does not have an ISO 3166 code assigned. The historic tzdata practice has been to use ISO 3166 "to help decide whether something is a country", so that would suggest we should wait until after it is made. (If only ISO had a definition for boundaries, then we could have avoid the last big political debate).
If the decision is made to proceed immediately, Wikipedia says that "XK" is the temporary code used for it by the European Commission. CLDR has also included some preliminary support for Kosovo with the code "XK".
However, the last time the use of an "X" code was proposed on this list (XJ for the disputed portion of Jerusalem, or rather to simply be able to include Jerusalem in zone.tab without making any judgement on what territory it is in), it was suggested that we should avoid using user-defined codes because some program could hypothetically consume the zone.tab file while ignoring the included iso3166.tab file in favor of its own list of country codes. I don't believe this objection was substantiated, though.
On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 14:01, Andy Heninger wrote:
Are there plans to add a time zone for Kosovo?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Kosovo
An increasing number of organizations and countries are recognizing Kosovo as a country, and having a representative zone for it would be convenient.
It looks like it would be Europe/Pristina, cloned from Europe/Belgrade
Thanks,
-- Andy
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