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