However, the six-time world champion Steve Davis said: "In a very short space of time things have changed in the calendar and therefore very quickly players are having to re-think their strategy.
"A change in the calendar date might be interpreted pessimistically as a downgrade of the committee's economic outlook rather than as conveying the committee's determination to support the economic recovery," some participants noted according to the minutes.
Nadal has rarely focused on the prize money issue publicly, focusing more on reducing the physical toll of the sport by calling for change in the calendar, ranking system and Davis Cup, the team event which he won with Spain in December but does not plan to play in this year.
While there are records at the Uspensky Church in Gori that list the dictator's day of birth as Dec. 18, 1878, a change in the calendar observed in the region and Stalin's own revision of his birthdate changed it to Dec. 21, 1879.
"It's backwards," said Ruy Teixeira, who has been studying changes in the school calendar as a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a liberal-leaning Washington research organization.
"Mark my words, in 2008 when our presidential candidates start to introduce themselves to the American public, the changes in the primary calendar will continue to take attention away from where it should be — on their visions for this country," she said.
I have four very specific proposals for changes in this calendar.
If that happens, Arizona would set off a cascade of other changes in the 2012 voting calendar.
Ms. Salgado disputed that idea Tuesday, saying that another change in the election calendar would not be "a good idea".
Some or all of the opposition claims may be false or exaggerated, but why take the chance over a few months' change in the electoral calendar?
