"Correct" in the English language is determined solely by the usage of the community of English speakers, not by the organized brigading of a technical mailing list. No state has any authority over the language.

“Correct” in the English language could only be determined by the rule of English grammar. Sometimes people consider “correct” as being “standard form of spoken or written English”, but this applies only for the specific communities (it can be a very large group, even in the form of a country). Although any dialect of English is also considered to be correct. Standard English has grammatical differences in different countries; therefore no one can name a single form of English as “correct” English.

As it happens, the maintainer of tzdb has made a judgment that English usage has sufficiently shifted to justify changing the internal database identifier for this time zone. In the absence of actual urgent changes to timekeeping, this does not on its own justify a new tzdb release.

So, the tzdb does not provide a real course of the event rather than a judgment of its maintainers? вс, 10 июл. 2022 г. в 19:01, Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>:

On July 10, 2022 11:23:52 AM EDT, Artur Nakonia via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:

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What is the problem with Kyiv? Why it is still as Kiev?

"Correct" in the English language is determined solely by the usage of the community of English speakers, not by the organized brigading of a technical mailing list. No state has any authority over the language.

As it happens, the maintainer of tzdb has made a judgment that English usage has sufficiently shifted to justify changing the internal database identifier for this time zone. In the absence of actual urgent changes to timekeeping, this does not on its own justify a new tzdb release.

-GAWollman