From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!pavel Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Minor error in cal Article-I.D.: cornell.2974 Posted: Sun May 16 16:14:03 1982 Received: Mon May 17 00:36:04 1982 References: tekid.16 You mentioned that "the Gregorian year has recently been changed". By whom? Who makes these ex deus pronouncements? The UN? The Vatican? I feel as paranoid as Dunbar in Catch-22; "Who's 'they'?". On a related question, who makes changes in the time zone definitions? Also, does anyone know how whoever they are got the whole world to agree on them? (Or have they? Maybe I'm a victim of American propaganda...) I remember reading an article in Scientific American a while back about the time zones. Did anyone else read it and still have a copy? It probably has the answers to my questions. Pavel Curtis