On 11/28/20 10:37 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
If a similar schedule applied this time around, we'd rename Asia/Kiev in 2023.
I meant to write "Europe/Kiev" of course. Our naming problem could be worse. Suppose the the biggest city in Ukraine was not Kyiv / Kiev, but was instead Kropyvnytskyi / Inhulsk / Kirovohrad / Kirovograd / Kirovo / Zinovievsk / Zinovyevsk / Elysavet / Yelisavetgrad / Yelysavethrad / Elisavetgrad / Elizabethgrad / ...? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kropyvnytskyi#Name_origins That city's official name changed most recently in 2016, but Google suggests "Kirovograd" is still the most common English-language spelling. This means English-language spelling is trailing official spelling by two or three official name-changes now (the uncertainty depending on which "official" one is referring to). I mention this not because of any imminent effort to create a Zone called Europe/Kropyvnytskyi, but because it's an extreme case of city name changes that, if it were to become more common in the future, could pose a real challenge to how tzdb is maintained.