Timeline for Does the government control what time it is?
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| Jun 18, 2020 at 20:50 | comment | added | Jirka Hanika | @PaulJohnson - Gregory XIII asked whoever would listen to return to an earlier calendar - the one internationally used by the early church. That's how the proposal was framed. I'd compare that to initiating a restoration movement than to a standardization effort, full of compromises, taken up by an intergovernmental organization, even if the end effect may be the same or similar. | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 15:47 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | @JirkaHanika I would argue that it was an international standard: it directly appealed to national rulers to adopt the new calendar, and they gradually did so. This is essentially the same process used by ISO today. As for the first, do you have any earlier examples of formal written standards (as opposed to informal conventions) intended to be applied internationally? | |
| Jun 18, 2020 at 15:39 | comment | added | Jirka Hanika | Inter gravissimas didn't start out as an international standard - and even less the "first ever" one. It directly applied only in Stato della Chiesa, a small part of today's Italy. But other countries found it convenient to converge to it in a process taking centuries which still goes on. (Even within a single country, the adoption is often gradual because it is possible to use several calendars for different purposes in parallel.) | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 15:10 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | States get to make their own rules regarding elections, however, so half an hour after the proclamation, the secretaries of state of those states could simply announce "due to an emergency of unprecedented assholism, polling places will open as previously scheduled in half an hour, and remain open for at least 12 hours, regardless of what dates and times the federal government decides to label that, and we'll see you in court." | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 12:45 | comment | added | DrSheldon | Eternal October is not the only way that the executive branch could try to interfere with an election. An hour before California, Oregon, and Washington are supposed to start voting, the executive could change the time zones of those states to the other side of the International Date Line, eliminating their election day. There's no way such a change would pass judicial review, but that wouldn't stop them from trying, or at the very least causing confusion. | |
| Jun 16, 2020 at 7:46 | history | edited | Paul Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added note on intent to use Gregorian calendar.
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 7:41 | history | answered | Paul Johnson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |