<div dir="ltr">TZ files are changed frequently because a country can pass a law, for example, not to use DST or some region of the country decides to move to other timezone. Why this also can not be changed according to <a href="http://zakon3.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/55-2010-%D0%BF">the decree of Ukrainian authority</a> (text in Ukrainian)? which states that names of geographical objects(and human names) must be transliterated according to the rules mentioned there. This was issued in 2010, from that time TZ database has been changed several times.<div><br></div><div>When you're mentioning a user, could you please specify who do you mean? Because me, as a developer, have to use those russian transliterated names when I want to specify a time zones. Also a lot of libraries depends on the "truth" that is present in TZ database, and users of that libraries might get wrong impression of actual names of the geographical objects, specifically in Ukraine in our case but there are much more such cases for other countries/cities(can't defend them as do not know language policy for them).</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-12-01 20:50 GMT+02:00 Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/30/2016 01:22 PM, Maksym Besida wrote:<br>
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/"more common"/ is a very subjective measure<br>
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It's true that this is to some extent subjective, but I'm afraid that's the best we can do.<br>
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By the way, end users should not need to deal with English-language strings like "Kiev". Instead, they should be seeing translations like "Київ", "基辅", and (my favorite) "Kænugarður". These translations are maintained by CLDR. See:<br>
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<a href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/by_type/timezones.europe.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.unicode.org/cldr/ch<wbr>arts/latest/by_type/timezones.<wbr>europe.html</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">З повагою,<div>Максим Бесіда.</div></div>
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