In a message dated 2/4/00 9:48:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:

It is much less likely that the respective countries will report timezone changes directly to IANA officially.

I may be the very least qualified on this mailing list to comment (since the only other time I've posted concerned my intense interest in discovering the time zone observed by an island which spends 6 months/year underwater) but ... I can see the advantage of having a web presence to which reports, rumors, and hearsay can also be reported, then brought to this list for scrutiny. Perhaps a form page, where such things can be entered. I'm trying to imagine the "signal to noise" ratio of a central reporting venue like this one, but I can't. It might be worth a try. Cliff Hancuff www.ClearDaySoftware.com