On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 at 15:31, Michael H Deckers via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 2022-06-06 17:56, Russ Allbery via tz wrote:
And just to set expectations, the time range you should be thinking of here is on the order of ten years.
I disagree: as the name "Turkey" does not appear in the interfaces produced by tzdb (not even in tzselect), the change can and should be effected as soon as it is internationally agreed (if it is, anyway). That's what we did when Swaziland was renamed Eswatini a couple of years ago.
And (somewhat) similarly with North Macedonia. I agree that commentary-only changes warrant a lower threshold. Furthermore, it's much easier and less disruptive in such cases to justify inclusion of a few alternate names, as it doesn't affect the data at all, as we did with Eswatini: # Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) Even if this change is formally adopted by several international bodies, most people will take longer to adapt their usage, and we should keep the data files useful to them, as well. -- Tim Parenti