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

[Petro Ord]

# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17):
# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014
# https://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html
# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30):
# Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks

Here is the news about russia initiative to revoke independence of
Lithuania (https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1714852/russia-s-duma-mulls-revoking-recognition-of-lithuanian-independence)
If tomorrow russia have the news abuot changing time in Lithuania,
will you update the uncomping repo to include this change?!

And from the Theory file:
| Most timezones correspond to a notable location and the database
| records all known clock transitions for that location; some
| timezones correspond instead to a fixed UTC offset.

> Nowhere in the Theory file does it say, “make a change to a database key
> because we want to take sides in a war.”

The Theory does not take sides, it is the person who makes the change does.

Please do not consider it any personal implication, but the number of
previously neglected requests about Ukraine only supports the
intolerance.

ср, 29 июн. 2022 г. в 12:32, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk>:
>
> On 29/06/2022 09:55, Petro Ord via tz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Time zones are added/updated for pragmatic reasons to reflect the
> history of actual wall clock time in a particular region, not for
> idealogical reasons.  See these comments in the "europe" file for
> Europe/Simferopol:
>
> # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17):
> # time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014
> # https://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html
> # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30):
> # Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks
> # late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial
> # and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about.
>
> And from the Theory file:
>
> | Most timezones correspond to a notable location and the database
> | records all known clock transitions for that location; some
> | timezones correspond instead to a fixed UTC offset.
>
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