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. Best regards, Carlos On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM Tom Lane via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: > Brian Inglis via tz <tz@iana.org> 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. > > regards, tom lane >
