On 05/23/2018 04:43 PM, George Savva wrote:
I don’t think of Nicosia and general Cyprus as being in Europe because i like it. It is the law.
That's fine, as tzdb is not intended to take or endorse any position on legal issues. If tzdb had authoritative legal effect in Cyprus or Crimea or Jerusalem or any of dozens of other areas of conflict, we would never be able to get our work done. Luckily for us, tzdb is merely a low-level tool to help programs set civil-time clocks. Names like "Europe/Nicosia" and "Europe/Istanbul" are not supposed to be visible to any but experienced users, and applications are expected to instead display names that users are likely to recognize and understand. For more on this subject, please see: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming which points to the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) here: http://cldr.unicode.org/ The CLDR gives the strings "Λευκωσία" and "Κωνσταντινούπολη" as the suggested way to display the abovementioned time zones for Greek-language user interfaces. Errors in these strings can be reported as described here: https://www.unicode.org/contacts.html