[tz] Fwd: Re: Introduction and apology for slamming you "with that TZ is a legal thing" commentary out of the blue.

[Random832]

Why doesn't the "reply-to" header get set on these messages?

I sent this directly by mistake:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [tz] Introduction and apology for slamming you "with that 
TZ is a legal thing" commentary out of the blue.
Date: 	Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:11:53 -0400
From: 	Random832 <random832 at fastmail.us>
To: 	Peter Ilieve <peter at aldie.co.uk>



On 10/20/2011 1:39 PM, Peter Ilieve wrote:
>  Assuming you managed to set up this mechanism where a legal authority
>  can make requests, how many requests do you think would get made?
>  My guess would be hardly any, maybe even zero. Based on my reading of
>  this list over many years, lots of governments can barely be trusted
>  to tell their own citizens what will happen to the clocks. They
>  probably won't be interested in contacting a bunch of geeks like
>  us, even if they knew we existed.

It may be that these governments are thinking that this is all still
done by people changing clocks by hand, so it won't inconvenience anyone
if they just announce on the saturday evening news that people should
change or not change their clocks that sunday morning.

So maybe it would be a good idea to prepare a form letter that can be
sent to any agency which enacts a timezone change without any advance
notice, explaining the issues involved, and in general the fact that
computer systems have to be updated to know the rules, and that some
lead time is necessary for this.



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