All locations in Ukraine belong to the same timezone (EEST), so there is no point, to ask user to pick his region, if any of his choices result in the same timezone setting. It is even stranger, how those four regions and their naming were picked, neither official administrative boundaries nor naming were used, in general there is no particular logical reasons to be seen. Looks like clear case of some sort of political/ethnical revisionism, which certainly does not belong to the scope of FreeBSD project. Fix: Set EEST time zone for entire Ukraine, like for the rest of East European countries. How-To-Repeat: Run /stand/sysinstall, choose Configuration->TimeZone->Europe->Ukraine, check result of choosing any region (all will set TZ to EEST).
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->ru Ruslan is our zoneinfo maintainer by way of association. :-)
<<On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 07:32:49 -0700 (PDT), pam@polynet.lviv.ua said: > Looks like clear case of some sort of political/ethnical revisionism, > which certainly does not belong to the scope of FreeBSD project. BZZZT! Wrong, but thanks for playing. Quoting /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/europe: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Ukraine # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev. Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # Kiev Mean Time 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 2:00 EU EE%sT # Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991. Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct 1:00 - CET 1940 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 1:00 1:00 CEST 1944 Oct 26 1:00 - CET 1945 Jun 29 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00 2:00 - EET 1992 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 2:00 EU EE%sT # Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991. # Zaporozh'ye has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 2:20 - CUT 1924 May 2 # Central Ukraine T 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 2:00 EU EE%sT # Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. # Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened # sometime between the 1994 DST switches. For now, guess it changed in May. 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May # From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. # Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 EU EE%sT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you have any issues with this history, please take it up with the maintainers of the timezone database at <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>. -GAWollman
State Changed From-To: open->closed The fact that the Simferopol and Lviv use the same timezone at the moment does not mean that they were using it all the time. Remember the USSR times? :-) But if you still have any issues with this history/naming, please take it up with the maintainers of the timezone database at <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov>.