<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Nickolay,<br><br></div>The zones you mention are retained for historical reasons; in particular, their timestamps differ in 1991 and years prior. See <a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/6eeb85f72939e58c34bf0140fe82993270964873/europe#L2833">https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/6eeb85f72939e58c34bf0140fe82993270964873/europe#L2833</a><br>
<br></div><div>Additionally, tzdb uses the "mainstream English spelling" for place names wherever possible; "Kiev" is more common in English than "Kyiv". See <a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/cbea42a15974c395cf45dcf9bcee775c8833051b/Theory#L433">https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/cbea42a15974c395cf45dcf9bcee775c8833051b/Theory#L433</a><br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 April 2014 17:14, Nickolay Olshevsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:o.nickolay@gmail.com" target="_blank">o.nickolay@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi.<br>
I am aware about tz database for a while, and today, during FreeBSD installation found out that it still propose ancient and non-usable zones like Ruthenia, Zaporozhye or Crimea for time zone in Ukraine, while for last years only one time zone exists at the whole Ukraine area (except Crimea for now).<br>
So, it would be nice to remove all of them except Ukraine/Kyiv, or is this not possible due to historical reasons (to keep history of all those time zones)?<br>
Also, the other issue is that in Ukrainian language correct spelling is Kyiv, not Kiev (russian pronunciation).<br>
It would be quite logical to change default zone to Europe/Kyiv.<br>
Thanks.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Best regards,<br>
Nickolay Olshevsky<br>
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