[tz] Belarus is listed in MSK timezone

Paul_Koning at dell.com Paul_Koning at dell.com
Thu Apr 23 23:51:31 UTC 2015


> On Apr 23, 2015, at 5:08 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> <<On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:34:36 +0300, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk <dkazimirchyk at gmail.com> said:
> 
>> I am having impression that many of the "for MSK" arguments are invented 
>> only to defend the questionable decision made not so long ago.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> I know that Paul wants to "avoid politics" but in this case he has
> imposed a very sensitive and inherently political choice, which the
> "people on the ground" have made it clear to us is undesired.

No, I think what he’s doing is refusing to make any changes whose reasoning is political, which makes sense.  The problem is that it would open the floodgates to all sort of stuff we don’t need, like debates about what country certain towns are in, or what countries exist, and so forth.

	paul



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