Why doesn't the "reply-to" header get set on these messages? I sent this directly by mistake: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [tz] Introduction and apology for slamming you "with that TZ is a legal thing" commentary out of the blue. Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:11:53 -0400 From: Random832 <random832@fastmail.us> To: Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> On 10/20/2011 1:39 PM, Peter Ilieve wrote:
Assuming you managed to set up this mechanism where a legal authority can make requests, how many requests do you think would get made? My guess would be hardly any, maybe even zero. Based on my reading of this list over many years, lots of governments can barely be trusted to tell their own citizens what will happen to the clocks. They probably won't be interested in contacting a bunch of geeks like us, even if they knew we existed.
It may be that these governments are thinking that this is all still done by people changing clocks by hand, so it won't inconvenience anyone if they just announce on the saturday evening news that people should change or not change their clocks that sunday morning. So maybe it would be a good idea to prepare a form letter that can be sent to any agency which enacts a timezone change without any advance notice, explaining the issues involved, and in general the fact that computer systems have to be updated to know the rules, and that some lead time is necessary for this.