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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: conf/47468: Sysinstall offers different timezones for Ukraine.
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The following reply was made to PR conf/47468; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: netch@netch.kiev.ua
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, jc@minjust.gov.ua
Subject: Re: conf/47468: Sysinstall offers different timezones for Ukraine.
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:03:02 -0500 (EST)

 <<On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:33:18 +0200, Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> said:
 
 > Four different Ukrainian timezones are reflections not of current
 > timezone, and not of official regulations, but of former ones in
 > quite historical times.  One can see, e.g., comment for definition
 > of Crimea time:
 
 It is the objective of the database maintainers to maintain one entry
 for every documented history of offsets-from-UTC for every country
 since the beginning of the epoch (1970-01-01).  This is necessary in
 order to be able to correctly process historical timestamps.
 
 To the extent historical information is available for dates prior to
 the beginning of the epoch, the database will also include it, but
 will not break out separate zones for differing histories.
 
 The FreeBSD Project defers to the design and maintenance decisions of
 the (third-party) timezone database maintainers, who are recognized
 experts on the topic.
 
 I hope this makes matters clearer.
 
 -GAWollman
 

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