[tz] Timezone error (Kyiv not Kiev)

[Petro Ord]

> More recently, there is also the common appeal that this change
> should be made not on the basis of “mainstream English spelling,”

Neither Kyiv nor Kiev is an English spelling word, it is a
Roman-letter (Latin) spelling word.

> but as a protest against the 2014 and 2022 invasions
For years people cannot separate Ukraine from russia. Kiev is
something that was in soviet union and continues to be in russia. But
Ukraine is an independent country, we always have Kyiv.
And keeping Kiev instead of Kyiv is your way of saying that we do not
consider you as a country.
Up until 2014 some of you have never heard about Ukraine, but it does
not mean that there were no errors in naming Kyiv as Kiev. It has
always been an error.
Considering it as a protest is your way to dissociate yourself from reality.

вт, 5 июл. 2022 г. в 21:14, Doug Ewell via tz <tz at iana.org>:
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> Bill Seymour wrote:
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> > It's beginning to look like there's an organized group of trolls who
> > expect to force a name-only release by being annoying.
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> It’s been evident for many months, even before the invasion, that this is a concerted letter-writing campaign. These are usually organized by people who believe the same request, repeated enough times, will influence technical decisions.
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> Some telltale signs that requesters are reading from the same script are the common tagline (“Kyiv not Kiev”), the common insistence that the use of “Kiev” is an “error” rather than simply an obsoletism, retained up until now for stability, and the common, self-evident pattern of brand-new participants posting without first reading the list archives or documentation.
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> More recently, there is also the common appeal that this change should be made not on the basis of “mainstream English spelling,” but as a protest against the 2014 and 2022 invasions.
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> Technical decisions are much more justifiably made by a single contributor with sound rationale and evidence than by a thousand visitors who act as though they are signing a petition.
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> Marc Wick wrote:
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> > I am in favor of releasing the change.
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> The change will be released.
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> > The current situation is only comparable to September 1939 and setting
> > a precedent can not be feared.
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> No matter how strongly we oppose the current and 2014 invasions, or the actions of the Third Reich, time zone identifiers are not political statements.
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