Sept. 21, 2021
7:47 p.m.
<<On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:44:22 -0700, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> said:
That sort of argument would be valid only if one accepted as an axiom that countries (or states) are an inherent part of timekeeping.
Governments self-evidently are: they are why we even have time zones in the first place. Everything in this database is _inherently_ political, and your continued attempts to "avoid politics" do nothing of the sort. -GAWollman