[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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