On 2019-06-26 16:31, Paul.Koning@dell.com wrote:
On Jun 26, 2019, at 3:06 AM, Even Scharning <tzdb@time.is> wrote:
NRK.no revealed today that this story was in fact a marketing campaign, hatched by the government-owned Innovation Norway.
That's very disturbing. It's problematic enough that not all governments give timely notice about time zone rule changes.
But if in addition we have to deal with government agencies supplying deliberately false information, the TZ work becomes that much more difficult.
I wonder if it would make sense for Dr. Eggert to issue a letter of complaint to the Norway government, pointing out the trouble caused by this sort of false information. It might even make sense to state that doing so will cause us to treat future (possibly real) change notices with doubt and not act on them promptly, as we normally would do given that we normally assume government notices are not deliberately false.
paul
It was rather obvious that this was a publicity stunt, and I think most media and people reading the story understood that. The reason that the media still took the bait, was that it made a cute story. The only real surprise here is that the idea came from a government-owned agency. Anyway, I support the suggestion of writing a formal complaint. It would give even more publicity to my home country. ;) Even Scharning Time.is - exact time for any time zone https://time.is/