On 03/17/2014 11:41 AM, Julian Cable wrote:
This suggest we should have not Europe/Simferopol but Ukraine/Simferopol and Russia/Simferopol.
We are not a political body and do not have the resources to deal with political disputes. That's why the tz database prefers more-neutral names like 'Europe/Simferopol', which (thank goodness) is the name the tz database is already using and which will be unaffected by the forseeable political changes in Crimea. At this point we should be thanking our lucky stars that the name is *not* Ukraine/Simferopol (or USSR/Simferopol or Russia/Simferopol or ...). Let's not mess with success. As for whether zone.tab should say UA or RU for Simferopol, we don't have the resources to arbitrate disputes like that either. If this turns into a real dispute that starts taking up our resources, then we'll need to change zone.tab's format so that it is less of a political flashpoint. This will entail some technical conversion hassles, but in the long run that'll less work for us and for our users than the neverending political hassles.