TIME_ZONE (settings.py) Europe/Kiev to Europe/Kyiv

[Mykola]

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.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Thanks for this ticket, however Django doesn't define or maintain list of timezones on it's own. We're using Python's ​zoneinfo implementation.