Re: [tz] Zone name policy

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Maksym Besida <maks.besida@gmail.com> wrote:

Because me, as a developer, have to use those russian transliterated names when I want to specify a time zones.

If that would provide any reconciliation, the tzdb adopted spelling of "Kiev" does not follow the official Russian transliteration rules either. Russian name "Киев" would be transliterated as "Kiyev" ("е" after a vowel is transliterated as "ye".) As others have mentioned already, tzdb does not use transliterated local names. It uses English names.