<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Iso is a living international standard, and it's their mandate, not the mandate of timezone collectors to do the negotiation and diplomacy in order to arrive at and maintain the world standard.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I certainly don't believe we have the mandate or skillset to ignore the international standard widely used in modern computer technology.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: "Clive D.W. Feather via tz" <tz@iana.org> </div><div>Date: 2021-09-22 03:34 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> </div><div>Cc: tz <tz@iana.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [tz] Preparing to fork tzdb </div><div><br></div></div>Tony Finch said:<br>>> Oh, please define "country".<br>> Jon Postel deftly answered that question in the 1980s by deferring to ISO<br>> 3166,<br><br>Except that the ISO 3166 list contained Belorussia and Ukraine, both of<br>which were part of the USSR that was also in the list.<br><br>The only reason they were in the list was a 1940s deal to give the USSR<br>three votes in the UN to counter the fact that there were more "western"<br>countries than Warsaw Pact ones.<br><br>So there was no genuine logic to that list, just politics.<br><br>-- <br>Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler,<br>Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge.<br>Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer<br>Mobile: +44 7973 377646<br></body></html>