Re: [tz] Rename Ukrainian cities to their official transliterated names

On Oct 4, 2018, at 2:37 PM, Ken Murchison <murch@fastmail.com> wrote:

I happen to agree with Mike that the naming of the zones can be extracted out as meta-data to go along with the tz rulesets. The IANA db can use UUIDs, urns or whatever to label the zones and also provide a mapping from the current names to the opaque ids. Consumers of the data can use the existing mapping or create their own.

I'm still not sure why there is a need to do a whole pile of work on the tzdb, merely to work around people who ignore the documentation. paul