[tz] Please Don't Feed the Trolls (was Kyiv not Kiev)

[Petro Ord]

> Nowhere in the Theory file does it say, “make a change to a database key
> because we want to take sides in a war.”  Good thing, too, or the list
> would really explode.

The Crimea time zone was rather quickly updated and added to the
upcoming release in 2014, especially considering that Crimea is
internationally recognized as being part of Ukraine.
I don't think it was guided by the Theory file.

ср, 29 июн. 2022 г. в 08:58, Eliot Lear via tz <tz at iana.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 28.06.22 14:54, Martin Burnicki via tz wrote:
> > Bill Seymour via tz wrote:
> >>
> >> It probably won't help to keep explaining the same thing over and
> >> over again.  Maybe if we quit paying attention to them, they'll go away.
> >
> > Hm, I wonder what you guys would do if your country was attacked by an
> > aggressor.
>
> Nowhere in the Theory file does it say, “make a change to a database key
> because we want to take sides in a war.”  Good thing, too, or the list
> would really explode.
>
>
> >
> > The whole discussion if and why to change the spelling to Kyiv is
> > obsolete if the change has already been made in the repo
>
> You should have stopped there.
>
>
> > , and even though usually a new version of the DB is only released if
> > some TZ rule was changed, it should not be too hard to simply release
> > a new version now, due to the specific situation, and don't wait until
> > another country decides to stick with or abolish DST.
>
> Absolutely not.  That invites abuse down the line.
>
> El
>