Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread James Beirne
>Just say 12 weeks Personally, I prefer the date to be as consistent as possible rather than the day of the week. Not that the elections are obliged to be then, of course, but it's just my preference. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:37 PM, James Beirne wrote: >> I'd definitely prefer just saying "wi

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread James Beirne
> I'd definitely prefer just saying "within 3 months before" and letting the > IADoP handle any disputes. > —Machiavelli And I suppose it would only be a problem something like 5 days per year, and even then only if there was supposed to be an election.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread omd
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Tanner Swett wrote: > I'd definitely prefer just saying "within 3 months before" and letting the > IADoP handle any disputes. Just say 12 weeks; we already use "N days before/after" to mean "a span of time lasting N full days after", not "the Nth start-of-day aft

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread Tanner Swett
On Jul 22, 2013, at 12:17 PM, James Beirne wrote: > My preferred alternative would be something like: > >> a) by announcement, if e is the IADoP, or the office is vacant >>or assumed, or no election has been initiated for the office >>since the Nth of M-3, where N is the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread James Beirne
This was intended to mean that it will be on the Nth of month + 3, but I wasn't thinking about end-of-month elections. My preferred alternative would be something like: >a) by announcement, if e is the IADoP, or the office is vacant > or assumed, or no election has been initiated f

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: I can't be arsed to remember / how many days hath September

2013-07-22 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 22 Jul 2013, James Beirne wrote: > >a) by announcement, if e is the IADoP, or the office is vacant > > or assumed, or no election has been initiated for the office > > within 3 months before the announcement; I hate calendars. Does this mean that if the ear