[tz] URL change OvV
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Jan 30 05:28:38 UTC 2014
Thanks, I installed the attached patch into the experimental version on
github; it accumulates your URL fixes along with some other
documentation improvements that were sitting in the queue. This might
not be published as an official version before your switchover date,
unfortunately, but that's life on the web.
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From 36dbd2c201b6dad296b293a7f8ee650cf062ba5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:24:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Make tz-link.htm more up-to-date.
* tz-link.htm: Mention xCal and jCal.
Mention Microsoft Windows 8.1 support for tz names.
CLDR data is available in both XML and JSON form.
Update two links (thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen).
Fix some formatting glitches, e.g., remove random newlines from
abbr elements' title attributes.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
NEWS | 18 +++++++++++++++-
tz-link.htm | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b53bf1b..46b0160 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
News for the tz database
+
Unreleased, experimental changes
Changes affecting near-future time stamps
@@ -16,11 +17,25 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
The settings for 'make check_web' now default to Ubuntu 13.10.
- Changes affecting commentary
+ Changes affecting commentary and documentation
The boundary of the US Pacific time zone is given more accurately.
(Thanks to Alan Mintz.)
+ Several changes affect tz-link.htm, the main web page.
+
+ Mention xCal (Internet RFC 6321) and jCal.
+
+ Microsoft Windows 8.1 and later support tz database names.
+
+ CLDR data is available in both XML and JSON form.
+
+ Update two links. (Thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen.)
+
+ Fix some formatting glitches, e.g., remove random newlines from
+ abbr elements' title attributes.
+
+
Release 2013i - 2013-12-17 07:25:23 -0800
Changes affecting near-future time stamps:
@@ -50,6 +65,7 @@ Release 2013i - 2013-12-17 07:25:23 -0800
tz-link.htm now mentions Noda Time. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
+
Release 2013h - 2013-10-25 15:32:32 -0700
Changes affecting current and future time stamps:
diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm
index 9b0aacd..57ada61 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="2014-01-17">
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-01-30">
<meta name="DC.Description"
content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
<meta name="DC.Identifier"
@@ -93,8 +93,10 @@ the code is in the file <code>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</code>,
where <code><var>C</var></code> is the code's version;
similarly, the data are in <code>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</code>,
where <code><var>D</var></code> is the data's version.
-Each version is a four-digit year followed by lower-case letters
-(a through z, then za through zz, then zza through zzz, and so on).
+Since 1996, each version has been a four-digit year followed by
+lower-case letter (<samp>a</samp> through <samp>z</samp>,
+then <samp>za</samp> through <samp>zz</samp>, then <samp>zza</samp>
+through <samp>zzz</samp>, and so on).
Convenience links to
the <a href="ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzcode-latest.tar.gz">latest
code</a> and
@@ -137,8 +139,8 @@ and browse the <a
href="http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/">archive of old
messages</a>. For further information about updates, please see
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6557">Procedures for
-Maintaining the Time Zone Database</a> (Internet <abbr title="Request
-For Comments">RFC</abbr> 6557).</p>
+Maintaining the Time Zone Database</a> (Internet <abbr
+title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 6557).</p>
<p>
The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data.
Here are some links that may be of interest.
@@ -149,7 +151,8 @@ Here are some links that may be of interest.
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database">tz database</a> is
an encyclopedic summary.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cstdbill.com/tzdb/tz-how-to.html">How to Read the
-tz Database Source Files</a> explains the tz database format.</li>
+tz Database Source Files</a> explains the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
+database format.</li>
<li><a
href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzoneinfotz-database/">A
literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database</a> comments on the
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ Time in 1000 Places</a> uses descriptions of the values.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc">Time Zone
Converter</a>
uses a pulldown menu.</li>
-<li><a href="http://home.telfort.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html">Complete
+<li><a href="http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/TZworld.html">Complete
timezone information for all countries</a> displays tables of DST rules.
<li><a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock –
Time Zones</a> lets you sort zone names and convert times.</li>
@@ -184,15 +187,23 @@ also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports queries via place
names and shows location maps.</li>
<li><a href="http://simpletimerclocks.mozdev.org/">Simple Timer + Clocks</a>
is a Firefox add-on which uses a timezone data file generated from the
-tz data files.</li>
+<code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data files.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545">
Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
-(iCalendar)</a>, Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 5445
+(iCalendar)</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 5445)
covers time zone
data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.
+The iCalendar format requires specialized parsers and generators; a
+variant <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321">xCal</a>
+(Internet RFC 6321) uses
+<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr
+title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> format, and a draft variant
+<a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal/">jCal</a>
+uses <a href="http://www.json.org/"><abbr
+title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr></a> format.
<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/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar
@@ -249,6 +260,8 @@ Unicode (<abbr>ICU</abbr>)</a> contains C/C++ and <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29">Java</a>
libraries for internationalization that
has a compiler from <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source
+and from <abbr title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> data
+(mentioned below)
into an <abbr>ICU</abbr>-specific format.
<abbr>ICU</abbr> is freely available under a
<abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
@@ -282,8 +295,7 @@ Library</a> is
a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a> class
library that compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></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
+is either proprietary or an <abbr>XML</abbr>-encoded
representation.</li>
<li>Starting with version 8.5, <a href="http://tcl.tk/">Tcl</a>
contains a developer-oriented parser that compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
@@ -317,8 +329,7 @@ It is freely available under the same terms as Perl
public-domain <a href="https://github.com/dbaron/tz.js">tz.js</a>
library contains a Python tool that
converts <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> binary data into
-<a href="http://www.json.org/"><abbr title="JavaScript Object
-Notation">JSON</abbr></a>-format data suitable for use
+<abbr>JSON</abbr>-format data suitable for use
in its JavaScript library for time zone conversion. Dates before 1970
are not supported.</li>
</ul>
@@ -388,12 +399,13 @@ Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
<a href="http://iata.org/index.htm">International Air Transport
Association</a>
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 <abbr>ID</abbr>s that can be mapped to
+<li>Although Microsoft Windows 8.1 and later supports
+the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database names directly, many of its
+applications use time zone information in an undocumented format
+from earlier releases, with <abbr>ID</abbr>s that can be mapped to
<code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> values using the <a
href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/supplemental/zone_tzid.html">Zone
-→ Tzid table</a> maintained by the <abbr
-title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> data mentioned
+→ Tzid table</a> in the <abbr>CLDR</abbr> data mentioned
below.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Maps</h2>
@@ -430,7 +442,7 @@ geospatial query operators to shapefiles' data.</li>
<li><a href="http://statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative
Divisions of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains lists of
political subdivision data related to time zones.</li>
-<li><a href="http://home.telfort.nl/~t876506/Multizones.html">Time
+<li><a href="http://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/Multizones.html">Time
zone boundaries for multizone countries</a> summarizes legal
boundaries between time zones within countries.</li>
<li>Manifold.net's <a
@@ -626,6 +638,16 @@ contentious issue.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Time notation</h2>
<ul>
+<li>The <a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode Common Locale Data
+Repository (<abbr>CLDR</abbr>) Project</a> has localizations for time
+zone names, 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". Its
+<a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/by_type/index.html">by-type
+charts</a> show these values for many locales. Data are available in
+both <abbr title="Locale Data Markup Language">LDML</abbr>
+(an <abbr>XML</abbr> format) and <abbr>JSON</abbr>.
<li>
<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">A summary of
the international standard date and time notation</a> is a good
@@ -659,16 +681,6 @@ formats.</li>
<a href="http://exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The
Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered
by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li>
-<li>The <a
-href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
-(<abbr>CLDR</abbr>) Project</a> has localizations for time zone names,
-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/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
practice. For example, "<abbr>EST</abbr>" denotes 5 hours behind
@@ -686,8 +698,8 @@ maintainers.</li>
<code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> environment variable uses the opposite convention.
For example, one might use <code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="<abbr
title="Japan Standard Time">JST</abbr>-9"</code> and
-<code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="<abbr title="Hawaii Standard
-Time">HST</abbr>10"</code> for Japan and Hawaii, respectively. If the
+<code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="<abbr title="Hawaii Standard Time">HST</abbr>10"</code>
+for Japan and Hawaii, respectively. If the
<code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database is available, it is usually better to use
settings like <code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="Asia/Tokyo"</code> and
<code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="Pacific/Honolulu"</code> instead, as this should avoid
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