On Feb 5, 2019, at 3:46 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2019-02-05 12:33, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2/5/19 8:55 AM, Paul.Koning@dell.com wrote: ...
It's not clear why ISO would be any more successful at cajoling country governments into early notice than the existing structure.
Yes, it's unlikely that (for example) the government of São Tomé and Príncipe would notify the ISO more reliably than they notify us.
They might as ISO is a treaty org like ICAO and IATA: govs and their airlines seem to promptly forward TZ and DST updates to local times for schedules and tickets, as the pols would not want to be inconvenienced on their "business" trips.
My understanding is that ISO is *not* a treaty organization but a non-government body. I notice that the Wikipedia article does not contain the word "treaty". Also, the members of ISO are not countries but national standards organizations; for example, the US member of ISO is ANSI. paul