No matter how strongly we oppose the current and 2014 invasions, or the actions of the Third Reich, time zone identifiers are not political statements.
Indeed they are not. For those of you who have no social, cultural and historical background with the current KyivNotKiev issue, it is not an error.
they're not primarily intended for human consumption. And yet I can see it as a user; it bothers me that it is wrong.
was not the string "Europe/Kyiv", but rather, the number 7252, I would (personally) rather prefer it as a number than an incorrect identifier.
вт, 5 июл. 2022 г. в 22:46, Steve Summit via tz <tz@iana.org>:
Doug Ewell wrote:
No matter how strongly we oppose the current and 2014 invasions, or the actions of the Third Reich, time zone identifiers are not political statements.
Indeed they are not. Well said. (In fact it's right up there with Jamie Lee Curtis's line from A Fish Called Wanda: "The London Underground is not a political movement.")
As regulars well know, but newcomers may not, time zone identifiers are just that: identifiers. They're somewhat arbitrary; they're not primarily intended for human consumption. If you can imagine for a moment that the identifier for the zone of interest here was not the string "Europe/Kyiv", but rather, the number 7252, we wouldn't be having these internecine and unnecessarily politicized debates over spelling.
What end-user interfaces are there that present raw tz identifiers for selection, and that might therefore confuse or offend users if the spellings are culturally inappropriate? If the time and energy being spent lobbying this list for unnecessary changes to the database could instead be directed towards rooting out and correcting those interfaces, it would be far more productive.
(A while back, I went and implemented the old suggestion that we augment or replace the tz names by arbitrary numbers like 7252. I suppose I should post that code for consideration.)