"America" does not maintain neither tzdata nor ISO 3166-2 database, both of which are delegated to international community of Internet Standards via RFC & to a committee headquartered in Genera with delegates from all around the world. All of which has lots of experience with classifying and updating territorial disputes, as and when things change.
I would like to remind everyone to be respectful, and to not make any generalizations of any individuals based on apparent or perceived country of origin. Note that participation on the Launchpad bug tracker for Ubuntu is subject to the Ubuntu Code of Conduct https://ubuntu.com/community/code-of-conduct -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to iso-codes in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1920987 Title: IANA tzdata file format cannot represent different country code for a given timezone in different time periods [ i.e. Europe/Simferopol country code changes ]; iso 3166-2 has no RU subdivisions for Crimea Status in iso-codes package in Ubuntu: New Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Europe/Simferopol, Crimea is RUSSIA ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04 Package: tzdata 2021a-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-11.12-generic 5.11.0 Uname: Linux 5.11.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu60 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: MATE Date: Tue Mar 23 21:44:56 2021 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-21 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210321) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: tzdata UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes/+bug/1920987/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
