On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM Tom Lane via tz wrote:
Brian Inglis via tz writes:
Governments like to think external orgs can provide updates in days,
I suspect that the officials issuing these sorts of orders haven't
really thought about implementation at all. Their mental model of
what needs to happen is probably still "everyone will manually
set their mechanical wristwatches forward an hour, job done".
In other spheres governments are well aware of the need for lead
time, but it seems there's a blind spot on this point.
On 2025-03-25 05:22, Carlos Raúl Perasso wrote:
> Unfortunately, the processing time at IANA presented a challenge this time.
The period from the October 2024 development repository update to the
January 2025 deployment version, impacting the March rule change, was longer
than ideal.
I remain a strong advocate for the volunteer efforts that drive our community.
> However, this situation highlights a potential area for improvement.
Delays are not the responsibility of this all volunteer project nor IANA!
If you read the thread just preceding the 2025a release, you will see that the
maintainers were waiting to see whether this change and other expected changes
were going to happen, plus the latest leap second update (also a no change
situation).
As far as anyone involved in this project knows, all countries are equally
likely to decide to make a change or decide not to, and not make any
announcement until the last minute, if at all.
It is up to politicians and their administrations to follow up and announce
their decisions when they said they would do something, rather than just do
nothing, leaving those impacted hanging, waiting to see if there will be any
official announcement.
They have to provide substantial notice to IATA about time changes, and are
fined millions if they make late changes, they just do not bother informing
anyone else, because some politician or bureaucrat has to be scheduled to appear
on camera to take the credit!
So blame politicians who can not make decisions and do not announce whether or
not they have decided to make a change, requiring maintainers to wait until the
last day previously proposed by someone's vapour, possibly even AI! ;^>
All who collaborate here are volunteers contributing information, and
maintaining the data and software.
The IETF tz RFCs documenting the information and BCP 175 procedures are also
written by those maintainers and contributors in their free time.
IANA provides the support infrastructure and organization but little more.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
