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    > Senator Marco Rubio said after input from airlines and broadcasters that supporters agreed that the change would not take place until November 2023.
I have a better idea. Let's make the change _today_ and see which organizations are technically competent enough to change a clock. Survival of the fittest.


By some coincidence, I was reading some web pages of the TZ database, and your comment reminded me of this:

> If your government plans to change its time zone boundaries or daylight saving rules, inform tz@iana.org well in advance, as this will coordinate updates to many cell phones, computers, and other devices around the world. The change should be officially announced at least a year before it affects how clocks operate; otherwise, there is a good chance that some clocks will operate incorrectly after the change, due to delays in propagating updates to software and data.

Source: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html




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