Robert Elz said:
Attempting to contact everyone responsible, directly, would be a lot of work, just identifying the parties involved, so I thought it might be possible to take an easier route, and just ask the UN to do the contact work for us - that is, we write to the UN Secretary General, and ask that the message be redistributed to all member states - the message being a request that they ask whoever (whatever agency) is responsible for actually implementing time issues, to please inform us of any planned or actual changes - and perhaps, if they're able, any historical data they have.
I think this is a good idea, with one rider. You might find it's more likely to work if you ask your own government to submit the request; in other words, they're more likely to listen to a member state than a (to them) random member of the public. I don't know how much work that will be for you.
Also, while I'm happy to draft (and circulate to the list before sending) the letter involved, it would probably be nice from the UN's viewpoint, if we could send in both English and French (and anything else? I doubt we need to consider attempting all 6 official languages.)
I'm pretty sure we have native Russian and Spanish speakers on the list. I have Chinese colleagues who I can ask whether they can do a Mandarin translation, though I make no promises. I don't know any Arabic speakers, but some of my Israeli colleagues may.
That I cannot do, so I'd need assistance with translation into French (and anything else suggested as a good idea) - and that assistance needs to be from a fluent (native) speaker I believe, not someone who learned the language in school.
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