[tz] Politics of TZ changes

[Paul Eggert]

Arthur David Olson wrote:
> Has any government gotten closer to a zero lead time than Egypt?

I'm afraid so.  I don't know the record, but the least notice that I 
recall recently was Libya last October.  The Libyan government 
announcement was published at 12:51 (10:51 UTC) October 24 canceling a 
daylight-saving transition at 02:00 (00:00 UTC) October 25, which is 
less than 14 hours' notice.  The tz mailing list was notified (by Even 
Scharning) at 10:27 UTC October 25 and we announced a new release at 
00:32 UTC October 26, nearly a day after the change.

http://pm.gov.ly/news/%D8%AA%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%89-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%8A.html

http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-October/020472.html

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