[tz] [PATCH] Update documentation.
Rune Torgersen
runet at innovsys.com
Mon Nov 12 16:14:08 UTC 2012
The actual law is http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/ldles?doc=/sf/sf/sf-20071214-1420.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of
> Rune Torgersen
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 9:33 AM
> To: Paul Eggert; Time zone mailing list
> Subject: Re: [tz] [PATCH] Update documentation.
>
> Looks like
> http://metlex.met.no/wiki/Sommertid
> is the new URL.
>
> Second paragraph (Sommertid).
> Fra siste søndag i mars til siste søndag i oktober stilles klokka i
> Norge 2 timer før UTC. For eksempel kl 00UTC = kl 02 norsk tid. Om
> vinteren er forskjellen 1 time, det vil si at man i oktober må
> stille klokka tilbake én time og i mars én time frem. igjen.
>
> Translates to
> >From last Sunday in March, to last Sunday in October, the clock in
> Norway is set to two hours before UTC. Example, 00UTC is 02
> Norwegian time. In the winter, the difference is 1 hour, that is,
> in October the clock must be set back one hour, and in March, one
> hour ahead again.
>
> Then it goes on to say that meteorology uses UTC.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf
> Of
> > Paul Eggert
> > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 1:45 AM
> > To: Time zone mailing list
> > Subject: [tz] [PATCH] Update documentation.
> >
> > Here are some documentation updates I'd like to fold into the
> next
> > release.
> >
> > * tz-link.htm: Prune no-longer-working URLs, update URLs that got
> > moved, sort a bit. The most-important casualty is the Norwegian
> > Meteorological Institute's web page for Summer time in Norway,
> > formerly at <http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html>: it's
> > no longer there and I can't find out where it moved to, if
> > anywhere.
> > * tzfile.5: Fix minor grammar problem.
> > ---
> > tz-link.htm | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> --
> > ------------
> > tzfile.5 | 2 +-
> > 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm
> > index 2690e1f..0d5d7da 100644
> > --- a/tz-link.htm
> > +++ b/tz-link.htm
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> > <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-
> > ASCII"'>
> > <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul">
> > <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David">
> > -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2012-10-28">
> > +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2012-11-12">
> > <meta name="DC.Description"
> > content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight
> > saving time">
> > <meta name="DC.Identifier"
> > @@ -101,11 +101,13 @@ gzip -dc tzdata-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf -
> > </code></pre>
> > <p>
> > The code and data files can also be obtained from the
> > -<a href="http://www.iana.org">IANA</a>
> > -<a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones">timezone web page</a>.
> > +<a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones">timezone web page</a>
> > +of the <a href="http://www.iana.org">Internet Assigned Numbers
> > +Authority (IANA)</a>.
> > An <a href="https://github.com/eggert/tz">unofficial development
> > repository</a> of the code and data is available
> > -in <a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> form; be careful, as
> this
> > +in <a href="http://git-scm.com/">Git</a> form
> > +from <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>; be careful, as
> this
> > repository is less well tested and probably contains more
> errors.
> > <p>
> > The code lets you compile the <code>tz</code> source files into
> > @@ -118,30 +120,19 @@ send changes to the <a
> > href="mailto:tz at iana.org">time zone
> > mailing list</a>. You can also <a
> > href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz">browse recent
> > messages</a> sent to the mailing list, <a
> > -href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz">subscribe</a> to
> > it.
> > -browse the <a
> > +href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz">subscribe</a> to
> > it,
> > +and browse the <a
> > href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/">archive of old
> > -messages</a> (message by message or in gzip compressed format),
> > -or retrieve <a
> > -href="ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/">archived older versions
> of
> > code
> > -and data</a>.</p>
> > +messages</a>.</p>
> > <p>
> > The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight
> > saving time data.
> > -Here are some recent links that may be of interest.
> > +Here are some links that may be of interest.
> > </p>
> > <h2>Web pages using recent versions of the <code>tz</code>
> > database</h2>
> > <p>
> > These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and
> > fanciness.
> > </p>
> > <ul>
> > -<li>
> > -<a href="http://permatime.com">
> > -Permatime</a>
> > -is a service for generating and viewing links that refer to a
> > -particular point in time and can be displayed in multiple
> > timezones.
> > -It uses the ruby tzinfo gem.
> > -(From Tim Diggins, 2009-11-03.)
> > -</li>
> > <li><a href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html">Date
> > and Time Gateway</a>
> > lets you see the <code>TZ</code> values directly.</li>
> > <li><a
> > @@ -151,10 +142,13 @@ Time in 1000 Places</a> uses descriptions
> of
> > the values.</li>
> > uses a pulldown menu.</li>
> > <li><a
> > href="http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html">Complete
> > timezone information for all countries</a> displays tables of
> DST
> > rules.
> > -<li><a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock
> -
> > +<li><a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock
> > –
> > Time Zones</a> lets you sort zone names and convert times.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://daylight-savings-time.info/">Graphical
> Display
> > of
> > -Time Zones and Daylight Saving Times</a> shows a graph of time
> > +<li><a href="http://permatime.com/">Permatime</a> generates and
> > views
> > +links that refer to a particular point in time and can be
> > displayed in
> > +multiple timezones.</li>
> > +<li><a href="http://daylight-savings-time.info/">Daylight Saving
> > Time info</a>
> > +shows a graph of time
> > difference versus time for any pair of locations.</li>
> > <li>The <a href="http://worldtimeengine.com/">World Time
> > Engine</a>
> > also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports
> queries
> > via place
> > @@ -175,7 +169,7 @@ Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group
> (<abbr
> > title="Calendaring and Scheduling Working
> > Group">calsch</abbr>)</a>
> > covers time zone
> > data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.
> > -The <a href="http://calconnect.org/">Calendaring and Scheduling
> > +<a href="http://calconnect.org/">CalConnect, The Calendaring and
> > Scheduling
> > Consortium</a> is promoting further work in this area. <a
> >
> >
> href="http://calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsa
> > ndrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar
> > TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and
> > @@ -203,7 +197,7 @@
> href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a>
> > was sketched out.</li>
> > </ul>
> > <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2>
> > <ul>
> > -<li><a href="http://www.dachaplin.dsl.pipex.com/vzic/">Vzic
> > iCalendar
> > +<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vzic/">Vzic
> iCalendar
> > Timezone Converter</a> describes a <a
> >
> >
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29">C<
> > /a>
> > program that compiles
> > @@ -250,9 +244,9 @@ compiles <code>tz</code> source into
> > It is freely available under the <abbr
> > title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr>
> > license.</li>
> > <li>The <a href="http://chronos-st.org/">Chronos Date/Time
> > -Library</a> is a <a href="http://smalltalk.org">Smalltalk</a>
> > class
> > -library that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a <a
> > -href="http://date-time-zone.com/">time zone repository</a> whose
> > format
> > +Library</a> is
> > +a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a>
> > class
> > +library that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a time zone
> > repository whose format
> > is either proprietary or an <a
> href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr
> > title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a>-encoded
> > representation.</li>
> > @@ -294,7 +288,7 @@ Toolkit</a> applications like <a
> > href="http://mozilla.com/firefox">Firefox</a>, <a
> > href="http://mozilla.com/thunderbird">Thunderbird</a>, and
> > <a
> > -
> >
> href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a
> > >.
> > +href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
> > US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/">Lightning</a>.
> > It displays multiple clocks in the application window, and has a
> > mapping
> > interface to <a href="http://earth.google.com/">Google
> Earth</a>.
> > It is freely available under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
> > @@ -303,18 +297,17 @@
> >
> href="http://users.skynet.be/Peter.Verthez/projects/intclock/">Inte
> > rnational
> > clock (intclock)</a> is a multi-timezone clock for
> > <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux and similar systems. It is freely
> available
> > under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://codeplex.com/publicdomain">PublicDomain</a>
> > -has a copy of a recent <code>tz</code> database, accessed via a
> <a
> > -href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp">C#</a> library. As
> its
> > -name suggests, it is in the public domain. Only current time
> > stamps
> > -are well supported; historical data are compiled into the
> runtime
> > but
> > -are not easily accessible.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://java.sun.com/">Sun Java</a> releases since
> 1.4
> > +<li><a
> >
> href="http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/overview/index.htm
> > l">Oracle
> > +Java</a> releases since 1.4
> > contain a copy of a subset of a recent <code>tz</code> database
> in
> > a
> > Java-specific format.</li>
> > <li><a href="http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/timezone/">Time
> Zone</a>
> > is
> > a <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin. It is
> > freely
> > available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
> > +<li><a href="http://www.relativedata.com/time-zone-master">Time
> > Zone
> > +Master</a> is a Microsoft Windows clock program that can
> > automatically
> > +download, compile and use the
> > <code>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</code>
> > +files as they are released. The Basic version is free.</li>
> > <li><a
> > href="http://veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is
> > a Mac OS X program. Its developers
> > @@ -323,36 +316,19 @@ licenses</a> to <code>tz</code>
> > contributors.</li>
> > <li><a
> > href="http://worldtimeexplorer.com/">World Time Explorer</a> is
> a
> > Microsoft Windows program.</li>
> > -<li>
> > -<a href="http://www.toriasoft.com">
> > -WorldClock for Windows and Windows Mobile</a>
> > -lets users "see the time in up to 25 locations in the world at
> > once."
> > -(From Hans Nieuwenhuis, 2009-11-02.)
> > -</li>
> > -<li>
> > -<a href="http://www.relativedata.com/time-zone-master">
> > -Time Zone Master Basic
> > -</a> "allows people to display multiple desktop clocks, and to
> > -research current and historical time information, as well as
> times
> > of
> > -astronomical events (sunrise/transit/set, moonrise/transit/set,
> > phases,
> > -season starts) for user-selected dates in the past and future.
> It
> > can
> > -automatically download, compile and use the tzdata**.gz database
> > files
> > -as they are released to keep the data up to date. The software
> is
> > -free." (Davie Patte)
> > -</li>
> > </ul>
> > <h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
> > <ul>
> > <li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi">Atlas Query</a>
> > -is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
> > -excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a
> > -
> >
> href="http://astrocom.com/products/software.php?software_id=ibmwbot
> > h">computer</a>
> > +is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks and Pottenger's
> > +time zone history atlases published in both <a
> > +href="http://astrocom.com/astrology-products/software/acs-atlas-
> > software">computer</a>
> > and book form (<a
> > -href="http://astrocom.com/products/book.php?book_id=b110x">one
> > volume
> > +href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/american-
> atlas">one
> > volume
> > for the USA</a>, and <a
> > -href="http://astrocom.com/products/book.php?book_id=b112x">one
> for
> > +href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/international-
> > atlas">one for
> > other locations</a>) by <a
> > -href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Communications
> > Services</a>.</li>
> > +href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Computing Services</a>.</li>
> > <li><a href="http://worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive
> atlas,
> > time info, public holidays</a>
> > contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset,
> > @@ -371,28 +347,17 @@ gives current time zone rules for airports
> > served by commercial aviation.</li>
> > <li>Some Microsoft Windows versions contain time zone
> information
> > in
> > an undocumented format, with IDs that can be mapped to
> > <code>TZ</code>
> > values using the <a
> > -
> >
> href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/windows_tzid.h
> > tml">Windows
> > +href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-
> > tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/zone_tzid.html">Zone
> > → Tzid table</a> maintained by the <abbr
> > title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> data mentioned
> > below.</li>
> > -<li>
> > -<a href="http://code.google.com/p/tzdata/">
> > -http://code.google.com/p/tzdata/
> > -</a>
> > -provides programming-language-specific representations of
> timezone
> > -data. Currently this includes XML, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, JSON
> and
> > CSV
> > -formatted data. The repository is updated as soon as the FTP
> > -distribution is updated. All data can be downloaded as a zip
> > and/or it
> > -can be obtained/synced via anonymous SVN. Data is made available
> > under
> > -the MIT license. (From Rich Tibbett.)
> > -</li>
> > </ul>
> > <h2>Maps</h2>
> > <ul>
> > <li>The <a href="https://www.cia.gov/">United States Central
> > Intelligence Agency (<abbr
> > title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</abbr>)</a> publishes a
> <a
> > -href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-
> > factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time
> > +href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-
> >
> factbook/graphics/ref_maps/physical/pdf/standard_time_zones_of_the_
> > world.pdf">time
> > zone map</a>; the
> > <a
> > href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html">Perry-
> > Castañeda
> > @@ -421,9 +386,8 @@ of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains
> detailed
> > lists of
> > zone boundaries for multizone countries</a> summarizes legal
> > boundaries between time zones within countries.</li>
> > <li>Manifold.net's <a
> > -href="http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html">Free Maps
> > and
> > -<abbr title="Geographic Information Systems">GIS</abbr>
> > -Data</a> includes a Manifold-format map of
> > +href="http://manifold.net/info/freestuff.shtml">Free Stuff for
> > +Manifold System Users</a> includes a Manifold-format map of
> > world time zone boundaries distributed under the
> > <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
> > <li>The <abbr>US</abbr> Geological Survey's National Atlas of
> > @@ -453,15 +417,15 @@ Saving Time - History, rationale, laws
> &
> > dates</a>
> > is an overall history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
> > <li><a href="http://energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Saving
> > Time,
> > Saving Energy</a> discusses a primary justification for
> > <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://seizethedaylight.com/dst/">Who Knew? A Brief
> > +<li><a href="http://seizethedaylight.com/dst/">A Brief
> > History of Daylight Saving Time</a> summarizes some of the
> > contentious
> > history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/">The
> > +<li><a href="http://toi.inrim.it/uk/toi.html">The
> > Time of Internet</a>
> > describes time zones and daylight saving time,
> > with diagrams.
> > The time zone map is out of date, however.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm">A History
> > of
> > +<li><a
> > href="http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm">A
> > History of
> > the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most
> > important
> > time zone boundary.</li>
> > <li><a href="http://statoids.com/tconcept.html">Basic Time
> > @@ -471,7 +435,7 @@ Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological
> > issues behind time zones.</li>
> > <dl>
> > <dt>Australia</dt>
> > <dd>The Parliamentary Library has commissioned <a
> > -href="http://www.aph.gov.au/LIBRARY/Pubs/rn/2006-
> > 07/07rn13.pdf">research
> > +href="http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rn/2006-
> > 07/07rn13.pdf">research
> > note on daylight saving time in Australia</a>.
> > The Bureau of Meteorology publishes a list of
> > <a
> >
> href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
> > ">Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within
> > Australia</a>.</dd>
> > @@ -485,17 +449,17 @@ records <a
> > href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html"
> > hreflang="pt-BR">Brazil's daylight saving time decrees (in
> > Portuguese)</a>.</dd>
> > <dt>Canada</dt>
> > -<dd>The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes
> > current
> > +<dd>National Research Council Canada publishes current
> > and some older information about <a
> > -href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-
> > cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/daylight_saving_e.html">Time
> > -Zones & Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd>
> > +href="http://www.nrc-
> > cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html">time
> > +zones & daylight saving time</a>.</dd>
> > <dt>Chile</dt>
> > <dd>The Chilean Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service publishes
> a
> > <a
> > href="http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm" hreflang="es">
> history
> > of
> > official time (in Spanish)</a>.</dd>
> > <dt>Germany</dt>
> > <dd>The National Institute for Science and Technology maintains
> > the <a
> > -href="http://www.ptb.de/en/org/4/44/441/dars_e.htm">Realisation
> of
> > +href="http://www.ptb.de/cms/en/fachabteilungen/abt4/fb-44/ag-
> > 441/realisation-of-legal-time-in-germany.html">Realisation of
> > Legal Time in Germany</a>.</dd>
> > <dt>Israel</dt>
> > <dd>The Interior Ministry periodically issues <a
> > @@ -509,20 +473,15 @@ hreflang="es">history of Mexican local time
> > (in Spanish)</a>.</dd>
> > <dt>Malaysia</dt>
> > <dd>See Singapore below.</dd>
> > <dt>Netherlands</dt>
> > -<dd><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm"
> > +<dd><a
> >
> href="http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm"
> > hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a>
> > covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient
> > times.</dd>
> > <dt>New Zealand</dt>
> > -<dd>The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief history
> > <a
> > -href="http://dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-
> material-
> > Information-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">About
> > +<dd>The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief <a
> > +href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/Daylight-Saving-History">History of
> > Daylight Saving</a>. The privately-maintained <a
> > href="http://astrologyschool.com/nztime.html">History of New
> > Zealand
> > time</a> has more details.</dd>
> > -<dt>Norway</dt>
> > -<dd>The Norwegian Meteorological Institute lists
> > -<a href="http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html"
> > hreflang="no">Summer
> > -time in Norway (in Norwegian)</a>, citing the
> > -Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo.</dd>
> > <dt>Singapore</dt>
> > <dd><a
> >
> >
> href="http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html">W
> > hy
> > @@ -530,11 +489,11 @@ is Singapore in the "Wrong" Time Zone?</a>
> > details the
> > history of legal time in Singapore and Malaysia.</dd>
> > <dt>United Kingdom</dt>
> > <dd><a
> > -href="http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/">History of
> > +href="http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/">History of
> > legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country
> > with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments.
> > The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a
> > -
> href="http://www.npl.co.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.2714">Archive
> > +href="http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/what-is-the-
> > time/archive-of-summer-time-dates-1916-2006">Archive
> > of Summer time dates</a>.</dd>
> > </dl>
> > <h2>Precision timekeeping</h2>
> > @@ -553,7 +512,8 @@ href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-
> > notes/rfc4833.txt">Timezone
> > Options for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration
> > Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a>
> > (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 4833)
> > specifies a <a
> > -href="http://www.dhcp.org/">DHCP</a> option for a server to
> > configure
> >
> +href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Host_Configuration_Prot
> > ocol">DHCP</a>
> > +option for a server to configure
> > a client's time zone and daylight saving settings
> > automatically.</li>
> > <li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html">A
> > Few
> > Facts Concerning <abbr title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</abbr>,
> > <abbr
> > @@ -578,7 +538,7 @@ code for converting among time scales like
> > <abbr title="International Atomic Time">TAI</abbr>,
> > <abbr>TDB</abbr>, <abbr>TDT</abbr> and
> > <abbr>UTC</abbr>.</li>
> > -<li><a href="http://jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.htm">Basics of
> > +<li><a href="http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.php">Basics
> of
> > Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions</a>
> > briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.</li>
> > <li><a
> > @@ -593,13 +553,9 @@ dedicated not only to leap seconds but to
> > precise time and frequency
> > in general. It covers the state of the art in amateur
> timekeeping,
> > and
> > how the art has progressed over the past few decades.</li>
> > <li><a
> > -href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-
> > pc/products/bulletins/bulletins.html">Bulletins
> > -maintained by the
> > -<abbr title="International Earth Rotation Service">IERS</abbr>
> > -<abbr title="Earth Orientation Parameters">EOP</abbr>
> > -(<abbr title="Product Center">PC</abbr>)</a> contains official
> > publications of
> > -the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the
> > -International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides
> >
> +href="http://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/Publications/Bulletins/bulletins
> > .html">IERS
> > +Bulletins</a> contains official publications of the
> International
> > +Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, which decides
> > when leap seconds occur.</li>
> > <li>The <a
> > href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs">Leap
> > @@ -609,11 +565,8 @@ and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue
> leap
> > seconds</a>,
> > discussed further in
> > <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-
> > leapsecond.pdf">The
> > leap second: its history and possible future</a>.
> > -The (now disbanded) <a
> > href="http://members.aas.org/comms/leap.cfm"><abbr
> > -title="American Astronomical Society">AAS</abbr> Leap Second
> > -Committee</a> has solicited input on this proposal.
> > -<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/">The
> > -Future of Leap Seconds</a> covers this
> > +<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/">UTC might be
> > redefined
> > +without Leap Seconds</a> gives pointers on this
> > contentious issue.</li>
> > </ul>
> > <h2>Time notation</h2>
> > @@ -623,7 +576,7 @@ contentious issue.</li>
> > the International Standard Date and Time Notation</a> is a good
> > summary of
> > <a
> > -
> >
> href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail
> > ?CSNUMBER=40874"><abbr
> >
> +href="http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=40874"><abb
> > r
> > title="International Organization for
> Standardization">ISO</abbr>
> > 8601:2004 -- Data elements and interchange formats --
> Information
> > interchange -- Representation of dates and times</a>.</li>
> > @@ -658,8 +611,8 @@ abbreviations, identifiers, and formats. For
> > example, it contains
> > French translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "<abbr
> > title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", and
> > "Bucharest". <a
> > -
> >
> href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.ht
> > ml">By-Type
> > -Chart: names.metazone</a> shows these values for many locales.
> > +href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/by_type/index.html">By-Type
> > +Chart</a> shows these values for many locales.
> > <abbr>ICU</abbr> contains a mechanism for using this data.</li>
> > <li>Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as
> > unique
> > identifiers for <abbr>UTC</abbr> offsets as they are ambiguous
> in
> > @@ -693,8 +646,6 @@ is called "<abbr>GMT</abbr>".</li>
> > <li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
> > <li><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory
> -
> > Reference: Time</a></li>
> > -<li><a
> > href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google
> > Directory
> > -- Reference > Time</a></li>
> > <li><a
> >
> href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time">Yah
> > oo!
> > Directory > Science > Measurements and Units >
> > Time</a></li>
> > </ul>
> > diff --git a/tzfile.5 b/tzfile.5
> > index aa7317b..10698a2 100644
> > --- a/tzfile.5
> > +++ b/tzfile.5
> > @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ is zero or the time argument is less than the
> > first transition time recorded
> > in the file.
> > .PP
> > For version-2-format time zone files,
> > -the above header and data is followed by a second header and
> data,
> > +the above header and data are followed by a second header and
> > data,
> > identical in format except that
> > eight bytes are used for each transition time or leap second
> time.
> > After the second header and data comes a newline-enclosed,
> > --
> > 1.7.9.5
>
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