[tz] Please Don't Feed the Trolls (was Kyiv not Kiev)

Petro Ord petro.ordyn at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 11:56:58 UTC 2022


> MacOS 12.3.1 will take as input Kyiv and Kiev.  This is also true for certain older releases, I believe.  And this is a key point: most modern operating systems don't simply present or allow only the distributed database keys.

It depends upon the provider of the service. For example, IBM
overrides data to show only Europe/Kyiv (at least this what I see from
Ukraine).

ср, 29 июн. 2022 г. в 14:21, Eliot Lear <lear at lear.ch>:
>
>
> On 29.06.22 12:17, Petro Ord wrote:
>
> The difference between the two has been explained on the list. Please
> read and internalize that explanation.  In the meantime, have you
> reviewed what the OSes actually present as the TZ name? I note that
> MacOS presents both.
>
> Could you please be more specific and provide an example?
>
> MacOS 12.3.1 will take as input Kyiv and Kiev.  This is also true for certain older releases, I believe.  And this is a key point: most modern operating systems don't simply present or allow only the distributed database keys.
>
> Eliot


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