On 10/4/2026 3:29 PM, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:
On 2026-10-04 12:27, James Bellaire via tz wrote:
Perhaps through the ITU? While there is no international approval
required for a country to change their time zones, educating the
right agencies in each country might help the decision makers in
their countries. (Although with local politics the decision makers
may still decide to ignore the technical hurdles.)
I am not sure how much they or the national telecomms or standards
agencies would care about times or zones, except at levels where
multiple zones are involved, nationally across North America, wide
South American countries, someone at the EU level; tropical and Asian
countries mostly don't use DST or have multiple zones.
I am just considering a path to their policymakers. I expect there is
some staff involvement. And while some staff and agencies may be
surprised by an edict put forth by top leadership, one hopes that there
is at least some rumor or discussion in advance or the edict (or a
process where staff and agencies are involved in the mechanics of the
change) that would allow for the people who know the challenges to help
guide the process.
I think perhaps IATA is the closest linked to us (thru SSIM schedules,
notice periods, standards, and notices) and best placed agency to
reach the travel industry, transport utilities, regulators, and
legislators, if we can get some cooperation, possibly also involving
their government related counterpart ICAO, to document and illustrate
the impacts, losses, and penalties when the passengers, staff, and
crew devices, and business systems, are not on the same local times as
airline and airport systems, with illustrations from short notice,
high impact events like Egypt's fiasco, without mentioning anyone
explicitly!
Good suggestions. The more in country / local people who know the
ramifications of changing time zones the better in affecting the process
from the ground up in every jurisdiction.
