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

Guilherme Bernardes Rodrigues oguilherme at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 04:26:43 UTC 2011


I am having the same problem

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 2:13 AM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

>  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> <random832 at fastmail.us>  To: Peter Ilieve
> <peter at aldie.co.uk> <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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