re 7 days for voting

[Terry Allen <tallen@sonic.net>]

Eduardo wrote:
...
| > I think the reason we have the concept of business day is that you
| > get to take weekends off.  If we say "seven calendar days" we cover
| > five business days no matter what the weekend is, less holidays.
| 
| I don't see how you arrive at the above conclusion. Posit a
| country where there are religious holidays that last seven
| days, then there is no way that seven calendar days will cover
| five business days. Also the idea of five being the magic number
| is not universal, witness Israel. I think the ideal of reaching
| a universal solution in this context is misguided. I firmly
| support "seven calendar days".
|  
| > And it's rare that there are more than 2 holidays in any
| > 7-day stretch, so we get pretty good assurance thant TC
| > members will have 3 days to take note of a motion, consider, and
| > vote.  Why is this inapropos?

As for 5 being the number, if you have a six-day week (or a four-day
week) you still have some opportunity to vote within a seven-day
span.  And I'm not forgetting lengthy holidays - I just don't think
we can provide for them in the bylaws.  We could insist on the Truce
of God during August and enforce inactivity during the college 
football bowl season ...

But it seems you're agreeing with my anyway, perhaps against your
better judgement.

regards, Terry