Aug. 29, 2013
7:54 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013, at 15:17, Paul Eggert wrote:
I do not favor adding rules that would place further political constraints on the tz database's contents. We already have too many problems with political issues that are unrelated to the core problem of timekeeping, and we should strive to avoid these problems rather than make them worse.
These "problems" are not in evidence. There was not, in fact, any technical reason _not_ to make the requested change in the incident you are thinking of.