<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 June 2017 at 11:23, Michael H Deckers via tz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" target="_blank">tz@iana.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id="m_-2235545235446083354:90e" class="m_-2235545235446083354a3s m_-2235545235446083354aXjCH m_-2235545235446083354m15c9ce76b57527ee"> • an odd time (1867-10-19T00:31:13Z) of a local event in Sitka<br>
is certainly not the effective time of an international treaty<br>
like the Alaska purchase;</div></blockquote></div><br>Why not? That wasn't an "odd time" in Sitka; it was 15:30. The modern notions of UTC and, moreover, standardized time zones would not have been a contributing factor at the time. And while it may not have been an exact time spelled out in the treaty (and, indeed, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=AywBjGzUxKgC&lpg=RA2-PA671&ots=qBt4ldOetr&pg=RA2-PA671#v=onepage&q&f=false">it does not appear such a time was even specified</a>), it certainly represents a distinct transfer of power, which could reasonably be said to be when the treaty actually came into "effect".</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Thanks for your work on this, Paul. I'd put a little effort into a similar patch after the <a href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2017-March/024895.html">discussion on Asia/Manila in March</a>, but life got in the way of its completion. I suspect you were piqued by the same sources as I was on this matter. :)<br><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-2235545235446083354gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">--<br>Tim Parenti<br></div></div>
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