[tz] Kiev -> Kyiv

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Tue May 31 16:38:12 UTC 2022


On 31/05/2022 15:38, Doug Ewell via tz wrote:
> Jacob Pratt wrote:
> 
>>> I know you are all busy, but you made a mistake in the timezone name.
>>> Just want to make a request to change "Kiev" to "Kyiv".
>>
>> This change has already been made.
> 
> People keep asking for this because the currently released version of the tz database (2022a) still has "Europe/Kiev".
> 
> The fact that the change to "Europe/Kyiv" is in the GitHub development repo, and will eventually make its way to a released version, is not helpful to these people. They want to see it in a release.

That is likely to happen some time this year (based on the pattern of 
previous years' releases) and should happen way before March 21, 2023 
which is when the earliest outstanding breakage so far is due to occur.

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