[tz] Time zones in Ukraine

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Tue Apr 15 00:58:19 UTC 2014


Nickolay,

The zones you mention are retained for historical reasons; in particular,
their timestamps differ in 1991 and years prior.  See
https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/6eeb85f72939e58c34bf0140fe82993270964873/europe#L2833

Additionally, tzdb uses the "mainstream English spelling" for place names
wherever possible; "Kiev" is more common in English than "Kyiv".  See
https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/cbea42a15974c395cf45dcf9bcee775c8833051b/Theory#L433

--
Tim Parenti


On 14 April 2014 17:14, Nickolay Olshevsky <o.nickolay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi.
> 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).
> 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)?
> Also, the other issue is that in Ukrainian language correct spelling is
> Kyiv, not Kiev (russian pronunciation).
> It would be quite logical to change default zone to Europe/Kyiv.
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Nickolay Olshevsky
>
>
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