[tz] Proposed update to tz-link.htm for Microsoft Windows
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Aug 11 22:32:19 UTC 2014
Matt Johnson wrote:
> I had thought it made sense to talk specifically about the proprietary Windows data in the "Other time zone databases" section - as Microsoft does indeed research and maintain their own data for this.
Yes, it'd make sense put a cross-reference there, or perhaps it's time
to reorganize tz-link.htm (but that's a bigger project). Might as well
mention HP-UX while we're at it. Further patch attached.
> Also, it would be nice if at least somewhere in the text pointed at the official support page for it:http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst
I think I'd rather leave that one out. We don't have support links for
anybody else (Android, Apple, Oracle, Red Hat, etc., etc.), and adding
support links for everybody would be a maintenance burden for us and
overkill for readers.
These days time zone support is all automated anyway, no? (Here's where
I duck to avoid tomatoes being thrown....).
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From 3405f9c2fbf2887847dabb4a844e87e6241c15b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:20:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * tz-link.htm, NEWS: Mention HP-UX (and Windows in another
place).
---
NEWS | 3 ++-
tz-link.htm | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f1e741b..d44cbf0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
- tz-link.htm describes Windows Runtime etc. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
+ tz-link.htm mentions Windows Runtime etc. (thanks to Matt Johnson)
+ and HP-UX's tztab.
Some broken URLs have been fixed in the commentary. (Thanks to
Lester Caine.)
diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm
index 77451bd..5eeee6f 100644
--- a/tz-link.htm
+++ b/tz-link.htm
@@ -428,6 +428,9 @@ for the U.S.</a>, and <a
href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/international-atlas">one for
other locations</a>) by <a
href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Computing Services</a>.</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.hp.com/go/hpux/">HP-UX</a> has a database in
+its own <code>tztab</code>(4) format.</li>
+<li>Microsoft Windows has proprietary data mentioned above.</li>
<li><a href="http://worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a>
is another time zone database.</li>
<li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a>
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