Timezone name changes
Greetings! Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, for a few months now, Ukrainian based transliterations of city names are getting more and more commonly used. Firstly, it started with Kyiv, and now other names follow along. Some names like Odessa or Kharkov are still more commonly using Russian transliterations, but two other cities, Uzhgorod and Zaporizhzhia, on tz timezone list, aren't like that. It can be seen online, for example, on social media or on platforms like Google Analytics. So, I think that it's time to change Europe/Zaporozhye to Europe/Zaporizhzhia and Europe/Uzhgorod to Europe/Uzhhorod. Of course, while leaving old timezone names as links to new ones, for fallback reasons
The current tzdb release has already changed spelling from Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv. The other Ukrainian locations' spellings shouldn't matter as they are planned to be removed (actually, moved to 'backzone') in the next release, as their pre-1991 data entries were most likely wrong and so they were out of scope for the database. See: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2022-August/031878.html
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Paul Eggert -
Ростислав Салабай