[LEAPSECS] Legal violation for failure to know sunrise/sunset to nearest minute

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2011-09-20T13:18:15 -0400, Gerard Ashton hath writ:

> Of course, discovering if the rules are actually enforced as rigorously

> as indicated by the

> spokeswoman would be an enormous effort, visiting the locations where

> the relevant court

> cases are stored and searching through them, or conducting polls of

> hunters and/or

> game wardens.


Yet this is pretty much what Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert have
orchestrated in the tz mail list as those members comb through the
various bureaucratic, legislative, administrative mazes of every
jurisdiction tracking whether and when decrees have actually been
issued and whether the local residents conform or not.  Neverminding
the political and territorial squabbles that accompany all the
changes, they succeed.

The technical ability to keep UTC as a timezone distinct from an
underlying uniform broadcast is demonstrated.

The political will to conform to existing treaties and resolutions is
not evident.

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