http://www.ietf.org/ The mission of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6557 ------ To be clear, the TZ Coordinator SHALL NOT set time zone policy for a region but use judgment and whatever available sources exist to assess what the average person on street would think the time actually is, or in case of historical corrections, was. ------ Either "average person on street" is to be taken literal, and if there are no streets and no average persons, the section does not apply. Or Paul Eggert (TZ Coordinator) is obliged to adhere to that section in the Bouvet Island case, where Norwegian laws clearly show that the time officially is UTC+01:00 on that island, irrespective of presence of human beings. http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-20070126-004.html ----- § 6. Norsk normaltid Normaltiden i Norge er én time foran koordinert universaltid (UTC+1). ----- -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/