https://timesys.pro/bulletin/ What the corpus turns up — corrections, reports and time-critical notices, published when there is something and silent when there is not. en-GB Sun, 23 Aug 2026 02:37:19 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/a-fire-festival-after-new-year https://timesys.pro/bulletin/a-fire-festival-after-new-year Two Iranian provinces held the same festival five days apart, and one of them had it falling after the event it leads up to. Both dates were symptoms. The fault was a rule that could not express the rule. Divergence Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/you-can-add-but-not-take-away https://timesys.pro/bulletin/you-can-add-but-not-take-away A subdivision inherits its parent's calendar and may add to it. It cannot decline a day. Three territories hit that wall in a single afternoon, and the honest response was to publish the contradiction rather than tidy it. Borrowed calendars Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/nine-minutes-from-midnight https://timesys.pro/bulletin/nine-minutes-from-midnight The Chinese calendar was being approximated with an average month length. It works until a leap month, and then a hundred and twenty-five dates across twenty-five jurisdictions are wrong, one of them in the wrong year. Machinery Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/nepal-runs-out-in-april https://timesys.pro/bulletin/nepal-runs-out-in-april A country's entire calendar rests on one annual notice, published as a twelve-page scan, dated in a calendar the engine cannot compute. Reading it was the easy part. Knowing when the next one arrives is the finding. The appointed day Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/the-citation-was-about-poultry https://timesys.pro/bulletin/the-citation-was-about-poultry Twelve Danish holidays cited a government URL that returns HTTP 200. It is an avian influenza order for a municipality in Jutland. No automated check can catch that, and only one thing can. The record Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/where-the-weekend-is https://timesys.pro/bulletin/where-the-weekend-is A country page drew a Saturday–Sunday weekend for Saudi Arabia — on the page a reader visits to learn that Saudi Arabia rests on Friday and Saturday. The assumption was not in that chart. It was underneath everything. Silence Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/one-full-moon-three-answers https://timesys.pro/bulletin/one-full-moon-three-answers Mid-Autumn is a single full moon and our records resolved it to three different dates. One of the three was legitimate. Finding the other two needed no external source at all — a corpus contradicting itself is evidence on its own. Divergence Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/fourteen-closures-three-national https://timesys.pro/bulletin/fourteen-closures-three-national In India, "closed" has four separate authorities, three of which issue a new answer every year. A calendar with one row per holiday cannot tell you which one it is quoting. Reach Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/public-unless-you-are-in-the-wrong-country https://timesys.pro/bulletin/public-unless-you-are-in-the-wrong-country A Mexican state legislature returned a plain-text refusal: your location has been blacklisted. It was not bot detection. It was geography, and it means the word "blocked" in a research record is not a fact until you say from where. The record Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/some-pass-a-law-others-send-a-notice https://timesys.pro/bulletin/some-pass-a-law-others-send-a-notice One instrument settles a country's holidays for a decade. Another settles them until December. The distinction predicts almost everything about keeping a calendar accurate, and almost nobody models it. The appointed day Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/cannot-search-for-what-you-did-not-think-of https://timesys.pro/bulletin/cannot-search-for-what-you-did-not-think-of A dataset assembled from the open web inherits the shape of that web without anyone choosing it. No validator catches the result, because nothing is malformed — the record is consistent, correctly sourced, and missing most of the festival. Silence Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/bank-in-whitehorse https://timesys.pro/bulletin/bank-in-whitehorse Boxing Day is a statutory holiday under Canadian federal law and, among the provinces, only in Ontario. Both facts are true at once, and a calendar with one row for Canada cannot hold them. Reach Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/ascension-six-days https://timesys.pro/bulletin/ascension-six-days An island named after a feast day was recorded as not keeping it. Three South Atlantic territories share a government and legislate three different calendars, and none of the three is the United Kingdom's. Borrowed calendars Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/where-is-an-equinox https://timesys.pro/bulletin/where-is-an-equinox The March 2027 equinox falls on 20 March in London and 21 March in Tokyo. It is the same instant. We computed it correctly and then dated it in the wrong place, and so does most software that touches this. Machinery Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://timesys.pro/bulletin/mawlid-2026-no-single-date https://timesys.pro/bulletin/mawlid-2026-no-single-date Thirty-seven jurisdictions appoint the Prophet's birthday and they will not all keep it on the same day. The divergence is visible in the laws themselves, before any announcement is made. Divergence Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000