#34893: TIME_ZONE (settings.py) Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv
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Reporter: Mykola | Owner: nobody
Type: | Status: new
Cleanup/optimization |
Component: | Version: 4.2
Internationalization | Keywords: timezone, Kyiv,
Severity: Normal | Ukraine
Triage Stage: | Has patch: 0
Unreviewed |
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 1
UI/UX: 1 |
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Hi, Community!
My name is Mykola, and I am Ukrainian. In Ukrainian language we have
gorgeous sound which as in my name, we transcribe as "y". It's a very
solid sound, which You can duplicate by pronouncing "e"-sound with mouth
wide open. We use this sound very often, we even have this sound in Our
capital city name, Kyiv. Unfortunately when selecting timezone in
"settings.py" file, there is no chance of selecting my city's name, as it
was named in russian way, Kiev.
You know, it feels very odd, when it was not a decision of your nation,
how people who's using English would call your cities, and I feel that
this have to be changed. And that is why I am here, to ask You, community
and developers, to let me and my people, and all the community to use the
name of our city, the way it sounds in Our native language. This is
important, as it makes a lot of difference.
The patch should be pretty simple, there is a Europe/Kiev timezone, and
what I am asking is to change it's name to Europe/Kyiv.
Thank You all, have a great safe day!
*Historical context*
After beginning of soviet occupation of Ukraine, soviet dictatorship
decided to change international pronouncing of so called "soviet
republics" and city names, for them to sound in russian way. As it sounded
in russian way, many foreigners were tricked into thinking there is no
difference between russians and any other nation under soviet occupation,
as their names sounded pretty similar and been pronounced in similar way.
That is how Kyiv began to be pronounced as kiev, Lviv as lvov, and my
name, Mykola, some been pronouncing as Nikolai, in russians way. Nikolai
is not my name, same as Kiev is not a name of My capital city. Please, let
programmers from Ukraine to use Our names for Our cities natively.
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