From d1c462fae23386330215c31e872f9341c9128c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2023 12:32:18 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] Minor Kyiv/Kiev commentary cleanups MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * NEWS: Say “Europe/Kiev” not “Kiev”, to make it clearer that this 2011 news item talks not about the city, but about the TZDB Zone which was still named “Europe/Kiev” in 2011. * europe: Omit obsolete/unnecessary commentary mentioning the city. --- NEWS | 4 ++-- europe | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e5ead4cf..8fb10142 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4506,8 +4506,8 @@ Release data2011m - 2011-10-24 21:42:16 +0700 In particular, the typos in comments in the data (2011-11-17 should have been 2011-10-17 as Alan Barrett noted, and spelling of Tiraspol that Tim Parenti noted) have been fixed, and the change for Ukraine has been - made in all 4 Ukrainian zones, rather than just Kiev (again, thanks to - Tim Parenti, and also Denys Gavrysh) + made in all 4 Ukrainian zones, rather than just Europe/Kiev + (again, thanks to Tim Parenti, and also Denys Gavrysh). In addition, I added Europe/Tiraspol to zone.tab. diff --git a/europe b/europe index 2410dc4d..27f821e7 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -3730,11 +3730,7 @@ Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 # and not at 3:00 as would have been under EU rules. # This is why I have set the change to EU rules into May 1996, # so that the change in March is stil covered by the Ukraine rule. -# The next change in October 1996 happened under EU rules.... -# TZ database holds three other zones for Ukraine.... I have not yet -# worked out the consequences for these three zones, as we (me and my -# US colleague David Cochrane) are still trying to get more -# information upon these local deviations from Kiev rules. +# The next change in October 1996 happened under EU rules. # # From Paul Eggert (2022-08-27): # For now, assume that Ukraine's zones all followed the same rules, -- 2.40.1