[tz] Fixed typos

Dominique Pellé dominique.pelle at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 23:27:27 UTC 2017


Hi

Following patch fixes various typos:

diff --git a/asia b/asia
index e26ef1b..7518e0c 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ Zone    Asia/Dili    8:22:20 -    LMT    1912 Jan  1
 # From Paul Eggert (2017-04-20):
 # Good luck trying to nail down old timekeeping records in India.
 # "... in the nineteenth century ... Madras Observatory took its magnetic
-# measurements in Göttingen time, its meterological measurements on Madras
+# measurements in Göttingen time, its metrological measurements on Madras
 # (local) time, dropped its time ball on Greenwich (ocean navigator's) time,
 # and distributed civil (local time)." -- Bartky IR. Selling the time:
 # 19th-century timekeeping in america. Stanford U Press (2000), 247 note 19.
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ Zone    Asia/Dili    8:22:20 -    LMT    1912 Jan  1
 #
 # "In 1870 ... Madras time - 'now used by the telegraph and regulated from the
 # only government observatory' - was suggested as a standard railway time,
-# first to be dopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR)....
+# first to be adopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR)....
 # Calcutta, Bombay, and Karachi, were to be allowed to continue with their
 # local time for civil purposes." - Prasad R. Tracks of Change: Railways and
 # Everyday Life in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press (2016), 145.
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 6bf0f0a..1e38db7 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ Zone    Pacific/Wallis    12:15:20 -    LMT    1901
 # http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
 # (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
 #
-# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
+# Victoria will follow NSW.  See:
 # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
 # http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
 #
diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
index 69f6a95..255c4a6 100644
--- a/backzone
+++ b/backzone
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ Zone    Europe/Guernsey    -0:10:09 -    LMT    1913 Jun 18
 # Time Act in 1883 and including additional confirmation of some of
 # the dates of the 'Summer Time' orders originating at
 # Westminster.  There is a little uncertainty as to the starting date
-# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have be announced a
+# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have been announced a
 # couple of days late.  There is still a substantial number of
 # documents to work through, but it is thought that every GB change
 # was also implemented on the island.
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 0620db6..8cc55e8 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest    1:44:24 -    LMT    1891 Oct
 # http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1333711
 # http://www.pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?111660
 # http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/46279
-# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will looks like this:
+# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will look like this:
 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-map-2014-07.html

 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index 6038c3b..a07da71 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco    -4:31:12 -    LMT    1914
 # the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
 # [1] Chile Law
 # http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
-# This contains a copy of a this official table:
+# This contains a copy of this official table:
 # Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
 # http://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
 # [1] needs several corrections, though.


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