On 29/06/2022 09:55, Petro Ord via tz wrote:
The Crimea time zone was rather quickly updated and added to the upcoming release in 2014, especially considering that Crimea is internationally recognized as being part of Ukraine. I don't think it was guided by the Theory file.
Time zones are added/updated for pragmatic reasons to reflect the history of actual wall clock time in a particular region, not for idealogical reasons. See these comments in the "europe" file for Europe/Simferopol: # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17): # time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014 # https://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30): # Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks # late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial # and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about. And from the Theory file: | Most timezones correspond to a notable location and the database | records all known clock transitions for that location; some | timezones correspond instead to a fixed UTC offset. -- -=( Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> || MEV Ltd. is a company )=- -=( registered in England & Wales. Regd. number: 02862268. )=- -=( Regd. addr.: S11 & 12 Building 67, Europa Business Park, )=- -=( Bird Hall Lane, STOCKPORT, SK3 0XA, UK. || www.mev.co.uk )=-