From 6df55775ee950b633c773f4c758b48037bf617e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:38:40 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] * NEWS, tz-link.htm: Improved coverage of geolocation. (Thanks to heads-ups from Evan Siroky and Matt Johnson.) --- NEWS | 4 ++++ tz-link.htm | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index b8470e3..a3b5f1c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes tm_zone and localtime_rz that have long been supported by the reference code. + tz-link.htm has improved coverage of time zone boundaries suitable + for geolocation. (Thanks to heads-ups from Evan Siroky and Matt + Johnson.) + The US commentary now mentions Allen and the "day of two noons". The Fiji commentary mentions the government's 2016-10-03 press diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 43188a4..0f00877 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -554,19 +554,69 @@ mean solar and standard time, highlighting areas such as western China where the two differ greatly. It's a bit out of date, unfortunately.

Time zone boundaries

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Geographical boundaries between time zone regions are available +from several geolocation +services and other sources.