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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/01/13 15:26, parminder wrote:<br>
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<font face="Verdana">If the charter says 'within 15 months', there
would almost always be a tendency towards delaying and the
election would go to the 15th month, and I am not sure this is
the best thing to do. <br>
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I think we should simply change </font><font face="Verdana"><span
class="author-a-z83zz87z9z87zz80zz88zqz74zz82zoz88zi2ju0">"by
midsummer (the summer solstice)" to "by midwinter (the winter
solstice in the Northern hemisphere) "<br>
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or better still to avoid any valorisation of the North over
South :), to <br>
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"by the December solstice"<br>
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In that case (because what are we, druids?) we could just say "by
the end of the calendar year". That would be even simpler.<br>
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