[tz] Commentary-only releases - let's not (was: Re: Please Don't Feed the Trolls (was Kyiv not Kiev))

[Petro Ord]

> Has there been an announcement from Ukraine that they will be going on permanent standard time ending in 2023?
The Government of Ukraine discusses the possibility to use permanent
standard time each year, but such a decision has not been approved
yet.

пт, 1 июл. 2022 г. в 23:11, Guy Harris via tz <tz at iana.org>:
>
> On Jul 1, 2022, at 12:14 PM, Petro Ord via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
>
> >> If we somehow get through this year's late silly season with no urgent
> >> releases, the current release will be out-of-date on 2023-March-21 (due
> >> to DST changes in Iran) so we'd need a release a few months before then
> >> to allow plenty of lead time for downstream maintainers and consumers.
> >
> > So the fact that Ukraine DST ends in October 2022 does even bother you.
>
> The time zone database currently has the region for Ukraine following EU rules, which specify that DST ends in October.
>
> Has there been an announcement from Ukraine that they will be going on permanent standard time ending in 2023?