Re: New home for time zone stuff by 2012?

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:

Someone may try to formalize the laws and document the process, but a dictator must not be bound to them or he becomes a slave.

That isn't true if the processes include a sensible amount of scope for discretion on the part of the leaders, and appropriate mechanisms to revise them. There's a vast amount of middle ground between your extremes. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.