This project, which is part of the Unicode Update Project aims to update the time manipulation routines to handle locale-based choices, including displaying time in either Gregorian or Julian calendar as before but also taking global Daylight Savings Time (DST) standards into account (At present, only USA and EU DST procedures are supported).
any time- and date-related ones, in particular GTAD%; ODCNV%, ODTIM%, IDCNV%, IDTIM%.
As with anything just barely touching the countries of the world, political issues are likely to be stirred up around the support in software for any decisions made by repressive regimes. Please understand and accept that our potential implementation of Saudi Solar time is not a statement in support of any other decision by that regime. Time keepers are only responsible for telling what time it is, not for what happens at those times. If you are concerned about this, please consider that many countries apply daylight savings time in a coordinated fashion in order for transnational transportation to work. Refusing to recognize official local time in the many different time zones of Russia would in no way hamper Russia's war effort in Ukraine, nor does it make much practical sense considering the small number of PDP-10 software enthusiasts among the political elite in Moscow. And before you denounce even this symbolic act of "support" as aligning with their political position; consider your own celebration of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an act of alignment with a temporary regime of terror that decapitated thousands of so-called aristocrats for the crime of belonging to the wrong demographic segment. Please take your verbal flame throwers somewhere else, they do not belong here.
That said, we must recognize that computer software, just like litterature, arts and television does have political impact and must be implemented in thoghtful ways, like flag emojis in Unicode, we cannot pretend that politics doesn't exist, but if you are ever in doubt about your decisions, follow Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative