Sergij, Could you please give an example of the software or OS that is displaying the classification you object to, and you and I could take it up with them? Unless you an OS or programming language framework developer, you should not be seeing the TZ identifiers. Regards -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 5:00 PM Sergij Marchenko <makars@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Paul,
By making such a proposal to Mr. Demediuk you are in fact taking sides despite your alleged neutrality. Russia's claims to Crimea are not supported by anyone but Russia itself, perhaps barring a negligible amount of countries that have their own governments largely criticized as undemocratic. The vast majority of countries have openly condemned the annexation and Russian aggression and continue to recognize Crimea as a Ukrainian territory it is.
A solution, which is more consistent with your view, exists. The patch could instead make the interface display the timezones in question as Russian to Russian users alone, while in the rest of the world they would be listed as Ukrainian. This practice, although controversial in the face of the international law, is a lesser violation of it than the current state of matter.
By keeping things the way they are now you are sending the world a message. The message is that you are endorsing the aggressor, even though it may not appear to you as such.
With a leaden heart we would accept the territory being assigned to different countries depending on a user's geolocation, provided that RU only shows up for Russian users and UA is the default configuration elsewhere, globally.
Otherwise we would kindly ask you to drop the neutrality claims and make your open endorsement of Russian military aggression against Ukraine transparent.
Kind regards.
-- Best regards, Sergij Marchenko
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