[Bug 886480] Re: tzdata refers to unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

[Jeremy Bicha]

https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo-data/blob/master/data/europe#L1788

The time zone database is not about official political recognition. It
is simply a database of local time. That region announced they were not
switching to "winter time" so an urgent change was made to reflect that,
but the officials changed their mind so the change was reverted almost
immediately:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2011n-1

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Title:
  tzdata refers to unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  the code of tzdata contains information regarding a non-existing
  country, the so called "pridnestrovian moldavian republic" (an illegal
  political entity that emerged out of a bloody conflict, the conflict
  being currently still unresolved). This so called "pridnestrovian
  moldavian republic" is not a member of the UN, and its existence has
  not been recognized by any world state.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria

  I think the presence of erroneous information in the code constitutes
  a bug and should be removed.

  Bellow is an example of code from the update package that went out for
  all versions, from Hardy Heron to Precise Pangolin:

   tzdata (2011n-1) unstable; urgency=critical
    * New upstream veersion, fixing DST for:
      - Cuba.
      - Fidji.
      - Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.
    * Set urgency to high as some of the above changes are already
      effective.
  etc.

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