Renaming the cities of Ukraine

[rublin]

FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev

[cleveHEX]

I believe this is not a correct place for this, the script uses /usr/share/zoneinfo, which belongs to https://www.iana.org/time-zones. I think any changes there would be overwritten.

Edit: I also believe this change is never going to happen, as this would break all existing users, as programs depend on names.

[vshymanskyy]

No, the list of names is hard-coded in gen-tz.py.
Besides that, stating that Europe/Simferopol is MSK-3 is basically neglecting the international law.

[vshymanskyy]

Instead of hard-coding the list of timezones, one could just do:

import os
import glob
import natsort

ZONES_DIR = "/usr/share/zoneinfo/"

def zone_info_filter(zones):
    return [f for f in zones if (
        os.path.isfile(ZONES_DIR + f) and
        not os.path.islink(ZONES_DIR + f) and
        not f.startswith("right")
    )]

ZONES = glob.glob("*/**", root_dir=ZONES_DIR, recursive=True)
ZONES = zone_info_filter(ZONES)
# Sort naturally
ZONES = natsort.realsorted(ZONES)
# Move Etc down
ZONES.sort(key=lambda x: x.startswith("Etc/"))

You'll notice that:

• "Kiev" gets replaced with "Kyiv"
• " Zaporozhye" and "Simferopol" are completely removed
• Among some other subtle changes

It basically means that the timezone files included in this repository are rather outdated

[vshymanskyy]

@nayarsystems what do you think?

Here's the relevant PR: #13