Hello! This discussion about timezone renaming started on April 11th and didn't have any activity since April 13th. Following up, I wanted to ask what is currently the status of changing "Europe/Kiev" to "Europe/Kyiv"? Sincerely, Oleksandr. TakeUsEat. On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 1:24 PM Oleksandr Leskiv <sasha26.05.2012@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everybody. As a native Ukrainian speaker, I do agree that "Europe/Uzhhorod" and "Europe/Zaporizhzhia" do have a more correct version of transliteration compared to "Europe/Uzhgorod" and "Europe/Zaporozhye". On the other hand, to my knowledge, Ukraine does not actively use these timezones, as every town in Ukraine has the same UTC offset, which is determined by the "Europe/Kyiv" timezone (formerly, "Europe/Kiev"). So in my opinion, these changes, while important, are not so urgent to be made.
Regarding Philip Paeps's comment about "the current conflict" - I believe that this is not a correct term that should be for the situation that has been happening between Ukraine and Russian Federation lately. I do think that besides Ukraine, almost every country has qualified this as Russo-Ukrainian War.
Sincerely, Oleksandr. TakeUsEat.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 5:59 AM Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:
On 2022-04-13 08:42:32 (+0800), Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
On 4/11/22 11:49, Jonathan Leffler via tz wrote:
I agree that the time has probably come to make the switch, leaving the old spelling as a backwards compatibility link.
Yes, things have changed significantly since the last time I did a survey. Proposed patch attached, and installed into the development repository.
Thanks for (finally) making this change!
I would suggest some minor changes to the commentary though. Referring to "the current conflict" will not age well. Words like "traditional" and "popular" have unhelpful connotations which the word "common" neatly avoids.
I also wonder if it wouldn't be less disruptive to our users to take this opportunity to also rename Europe/Uzhgorod and Europe/Zaporozhye to Europe/Uzhhorod and Europe/Zaporizhzhia at the same time...
Philip
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