On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 09:15, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Attempting to contact everyone responsible, directly, would be a lot of work, just identifying the parties involved, so I thought it might be possible to take an easier route, and just ask the UN to do the contact work for us - that is, we write to the UN Secretary General, and ask that the message be redistributed to all member states - the message being a request that they ask whoever (whatever agency) is responsible for actually implementing time issues, to please inform us of any planned or actual changes - and perhaps, if they're able, any historical data they have.
If people think this is a reasonable idea then I will implement it.
This sounds like a reasonable idea to me, and worth a try.
Also, while I'm happy to draft (and circulate to the list before sending) the letter involved, it would probably be nice from the UN's viewpoint, if we could send in both English and French (and anything else? I doubt we need to consider attempting all 6 official languages.)
English and French are the two sole working languages of the UN Secretariat ( http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/languages.shtml ). Having it in those two would probably be a good start. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>