On 27/11/2020 11:39, Andriy Ivanchenko wrote:
I understand correctly that you do not plan to change Kiev to Kyiv? Do I still have to wait a while for the final decision? I don't understand how your system works. Can you write about it in more detail?
One important thing to note here is that none of the historic material that uses the current 'long time stable' timezone identifiers is going to be changed since the identifiers where correct when that material was created. Indeed changing the archived material could well introduce other historically inaccurate problems, so the existing id's need to remain purely for historic reasons. This then requires the addition of 'new' id's for the same entries which results in a lot of duplication if every request for spelling changes and more often name changes is to be handled. It has been decided that it is tidier to retain the original id's since as has been reiterated by others these are not intended to be displayed, and a number of other services provide both translations and links to all the other unsupported location names. Programs resorting to using only the list of TZ identifiers are where the fault is and these should be taken to task for not providing a more user friendly interface in the language of the end user? There is no plan to change this since it is essential to maintain compatibility with historic material. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - https://lsces.uk/wiki/Contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - https://lsces.uk Model Engineers Digital Workshop - https://medw.uk Rainbow Digital Media - https://rainbowdigitalmedia.uk