On Oct 4, 2026, at 9:57 AM, Kim Davies via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > With that said I think the key is identifying the right forums to share this > work so it actually makes a useful impact. The nature of the work we do at > IANA > and broadly within ICANN tends to be more with national governments.
How many of the people in those national governments who are involved with timekeeping changes are aware that the IANA and ICANN are involved with the time zone database, how many think "they're the Internet people; time zones are something else, so they wouldn't have anything to do with them", and how many aren't even aware of the *existence* of the time zone database? Note that these people aren't necessarily bureaucrats and technicians in a timekeeping department of the government; legislators may be involved (to the extent of provoking a peeved head of government to publicly disclose a legislator's personal cell phone number to get people to call him and demand a change). > With the > recent changes in Canada it seems this is being more driven at a provincial > level, and there is probably not a good nexus there to reach the right people. I think daylight saving time might also be under the control of states rather than solely of the federal government in Australia as well. The states have some more limited control in the US, as they can opt out of daylight saving time, as Arizona has done. > So, where can we spread the message to help it resonate? Is there any place > where the message could help make an impactful difference to policymaking? That's a good question (and one for which I have no good answer, as I'm not in the circles where the policymaking is done).
