"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 Bugs, which is subscribed to 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 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iso-codes/+bug/1920987/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs