From b3f7d4295c753210cc6ddf18c56b1efabeaa53e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2014 19:07:24 -0400 Subject: Avoid bracketing links when alone on a line. --- africa | 12 +++++----- antarctica | 18 +++++++------- asia | 36 +++++++++++++++--------------- australasia | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- europe | 20 ++++++++-------- leapseconds.awk | 2 +- northamerica | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------- southamerica | 16 +++++++------- 8 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 110 deletions(-) diff --git a/africa b/africa index f6e7020..46a2160 100644 --- a/africa +++ b/africa @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ # I found in the UCLA library. # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 -# . +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou # announced a bit in advance. On 2012-07-11 the Moroccan government # announced that year's Ramadan daylight-saving transitions would be # 2012-07-20 and 2012-08-20; see -# . +# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=288 # From Andrew Paprocki (2013-07-02): # Morocco announced that the year's Ramadan daylight-savings @@ -971,8 +971,8 @@ Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar # The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks & Pottenger. # Shanks & Pottenger report no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA. -# From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30) in -# : +# From Petronella Sibeene (2007-03-30): +# http://allafrica.com/stories/200703300178.html # While the entire country changes its time, Katima Mulilo and other # settlements in Caprivi unofficially will not because the sun there # rises and sets earlier compared to other regions. Chief of @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931 # # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02): # La Presse, the first national daily newspaper ... -# +# http://www.lapresse.tn/archives/archives280405/actualites/lheure.html # ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, # 1h standard time. # diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica index c55c165..9062747 100644 --- a/antarctica +++ b/antarctica @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see # COMNAP - Stations and Bases -# +# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ # and # Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) -# +# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm # for information. # Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. # @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered # Margaret Turner reports -# +# http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html # (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; # presumably this is when they have visitors. # @@ -124,11 +124,11 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 5:00 - MAWT # References: # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) -# +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) -# +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) -# +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html # Belgium - year-round base # Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time # See: # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) -# +# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html # S Korea - year-round base # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 @@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - zzz 2005 Feb 12 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 -# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15) -# : +# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): +# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same # time as Moscow, Russia. # diff --git a/asia b/asia index 285338b..52a30b0 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ # I found in the UCLA library. # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 -# . +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # For Russian data circa 1919, a source is: # Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919. @@ -702,13 +702,13 @@ Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:42 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 # Central Weather Bureau website was not correct. # # Original Bulletin: -# -# (cont.) +# http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=03502F0AKM1AF +# http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=0350300AKM1B0 (cont.) # # In 1947, DST in Taiwan was expanded to Oct 31. There is a backup of that # telegram announcement from Taiwan Province Government: # -# +# http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=0360310AKZ431 # # Here is a brief translation: # @@ -893,7 +893,7 @@ Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata # Indonesia # # From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: -# +# http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime # says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some # time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat # and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. @@ -1377,8 +1377,8 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:54 - LMT 1880 # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but "the system was discontinued # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours." -# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times -# : +# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times: +# http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm # Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on # [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of # daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): # According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway -# +# http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml # Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article # to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. # From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): @@ -1659,8 +1659,8 @@ Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # Korea (North and South) -# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in -# : +# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10): +# http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp # The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already # commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said # the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight @@ -1752,7 +1752,7 @@ Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - # # peninsular Malaysia # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) -# . +# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in # Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. # He also found -# +# http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1& # which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" # (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. # The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT @@ -2158,7 +2158,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): # Daoud Kuttab writes in Holiday havoc -# +# http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html # (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that # the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. # I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). @@ -2399,14 +2399,14 @@ Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct # Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's # History of the International Date Line -# . +# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm # The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): # Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of # Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the # rainy season begins. See -# . +# http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006 # For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. # # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26): @@ -2463,7 +2463,7 @@ Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1947 Mar 14 # Singapore # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) -# . +# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. @@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 # at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). # From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: -# +# http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML # [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply # kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean # Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 16e3c5f..eceb160 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # Tasmania # # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): -# +# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml # says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948; # sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the # Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island -# -# . +# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828 +# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831 # Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010. # # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): @@ -701,8 +701,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the -# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976 -# . +# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. +# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time # Minus One Hour". @@ -784,8 +784,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # I found in the UCLA library. # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 -# . +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -834,12 +834,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): # Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia -# +# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml # summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. # From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): # Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales -# +# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving # covers New South Wales in particular. # From John Mackin (1991-03-06): @@ -976,13 +976,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # # NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) -# +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html # ACT # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 -# +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html # SA # Standard Time Act, 1898 -# +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html # From David Grosz (2005-06-13): # It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # it matches what was used in the past. # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ -# +# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm # (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses # South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning # from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01): # WA are trialing DST for three years. -# +# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the @@ -1106,7 +1106,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): # This is confirmed by the section entitled # "What's the deal with time zones???" in -# . +# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html # # From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): # ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, @@ -1262,33 +1262,32 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual -# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, -# Two months more daylight saving -# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26) -# ] +# October in 2000. See: Matthew Moore, +# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26). +# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): # See the following official NSW source: # Daylight Saving in New South Wales. -# +# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ # # Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of # daylight saving next year. See: # Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving -# +# 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: # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) -# +# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm # # However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: # South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19) -# +# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm # # Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: # Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics -# +# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm # (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying # "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time # I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very @@ -1298,7 +1297,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # # Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: # Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21) -# +# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm # IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian # Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken @@ -1434,8 +1433,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): # Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by -# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26) -# . +# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf # According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand # parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard # time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New @@ -1516,7 +1515,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in # The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26) -# +# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html # that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. @@ -1587,9 +1586,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. # Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle -# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins' -# : - +# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins': +# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm +# # Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST # 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its # standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its @@ -1723,6 +1722,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # (2005-03-20): # # The American Practical Navigator (2002) -# +# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187 # talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in # international waters; it ignores the international date line. diff --git a/europe b/europe index aa1a023..fc8998c 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech -# +# http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0 # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976). # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. -# +# http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT # W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S @@ -1021,7 +1021,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law -# +# http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390 # refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between # the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22-27, 120). # @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # From Jörg Schilling (2002-10-23): # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by -# +# http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/ # General [Nikolai] Bersarin. # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): @@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks & Pottenger, Whitman, and # F. Pollastri # Day-light Saving Time in Italy (2006-02-03) -# +# http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html # ('FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute # publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows: # @@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # in Latvian for subscribers only). # From RFE/RL Newsline -# +# http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html # (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow: # The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will # institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported. @@ -1810,7 +1810,7 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 # Amsterdam mean time. # The data before 1945 are taken from -# . +# http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time @@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # says that the Germans were # expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) -# +# http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. # @@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - # For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, # Toruń Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., -# +# http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1 # Thanks to Przemysław Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. # He also gives these further references: # Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) @@ -3019,7 +3019,7 @@ Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 # From Pierre-Yves Berger (2013-09-11): # the "Circulaire du conseil fédéral" (December 11 1893) -# ... +# http://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/viewOrigDoc.do?id=10071353 # clearly states that the [1894-06-01] change should be done at midnight # but if no one is present after 11 at night, could be postponed until one # hour before the beginning of service. diff --git a/leapseconds.awk b/leapseconds.awk index c2079dc..ee20ecc 100644 --- a/leapseconds.awk +++ b/leapseconds.awk @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ BEGIN { print "# you should be able to pick up leap-seconds.list from a secondary NIST server." print "# For more about leap-seconds.list, please see" print "# The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds" - print "# ." + print "# http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/leap.html" print "" print "# The International Earth Rotation Service periodically uses leap seconds" print "# to keep UTC to within 0.9 s of UT1" diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 740a077..1ce8b4d 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ # # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see # Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint -# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927) -# . +# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). +# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html # # Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. # However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ # From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): # Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. # In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." -# An AltaVista search turned up -# : +# An AltaVista search turned up: +# http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html # "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." # (August 1945) by way of confirmation. @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): # According to today's Huntsville Times -# +# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 # a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City # in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, # set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 # # For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: # What time is it in Indiana? (2006-03-01) -# +# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html # # From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): # Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 # Wayne County, Kentucky # # From Lake Cumberland LIFE -# +# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml # (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: # Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from # the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made @@ -887,7 +887,7 @@ Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 # From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): # The final rule was published in the # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. -# +# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22 # Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 # West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on # 1999-10-31. See the # Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. -# +# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15 # However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated # on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; # hence a separate tz entry is not needed. @@ -1100,13 +1100,13 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): # H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map # "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) -# +# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp # contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard # time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. # # INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has # information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada. -# +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php # (updated periodically). # Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. @@ -1411,7 +1411,7 @@ Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 # says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, # but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. # He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) -# +# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html # says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. # Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report # concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. @@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@ Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 # From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): # Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. # Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 -# +# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html # # From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): # We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut @@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): # Basic Facts: The New Territory -# +# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html # (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, # and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when # Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. @@ -1924,8 +1924,8 @@ Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 # the current state of affairs. # From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the -# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19) -# : +# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): +# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html # Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, # central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time # for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] @@ -2126,7 +2126,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # The Investigation and Analysis Service of the # Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a # history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) -# . +# http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/ # # Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. # (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) @@ -2171,8 +2171,8 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- # From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): # For an English translation of the decree, see -# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04) -# . +# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). +# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html # From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): # The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times @@ -2197,7 +2197,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced # that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting # this year.... -# +# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 # [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday # in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. @@ -2211,13 +2211,13 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # observation of Daylight Saving Time. # Official statute published by the Energy Department -# +# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre # (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, # and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): # -# +# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html # James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times # * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. # * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that @@ -2856,7 +2856,7 @@ Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador # From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): # The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 # (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See -# . +# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D @@ -2959,8 +2959,8 @@ Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html # From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): -# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08) -# . +# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). +# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 # It mentions executive decree 18-2006. # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): @@ -3102,7 +3102,7 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre # Turks and Caicos # # From Chris Dunn in -# +# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007 # (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the # daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match # the recent U.S. change of dates. diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index 7f781d3..a123abd 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 -# . +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ Rule Arg 2008 only - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # Perhaps San Luis operates on the legal fiction that it is at UTC-4 # with perpetual summer time, but ordinary usage typically seems to # just say it's at UTC-3; see, for example, -# . +# http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hora_oficial_argentina # We've documented similar situations as being plain changes to # standard time, so let's do that here too. This does not change UTC # offsets, only tm_isdst and the time zone abbreviations. One minor @@ -722,8 +722,8 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10): # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from -# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil -# . +# Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil. +# http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-08-29): # As announced by the government and many newspapers in Brazil late @@ -1478,8 +1478,8 @@ Rule Para 1996 only - Mar 1 0:00 0 - # (10-01). # # Translated by Gwillim Law (2001-02-27) from -# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01) -# : +# Noticias, a daily paper in Asunción, Paraguay (2000-10-01): +# http://www.diarionoticias.com.py/011000/nacional/naciona1.htm # Starting at 0:00 today, the clock will be set forward 60 minutes, in # fulfillment of Decree No. 7,273 of the Executive Power.... The time change # system has been operating for several years. Formerly there was a separate @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): # Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) # From Carlos Raúl Perasso via Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-13) -# +# http://www.presidencia.gov.py/decretos/D1867.pdf Rule Para 2004 2009 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S Rule Para 2005 2009 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2010-02-18): -- 1.7.9