Update: URL of Time and Date Gateway changed

Peter Thoeny peter.thoeny at attglobal.net
Tue Mar 30 06:47:27 UTC 2004


Dear Paul,

thank you for the suggestions. All done except for the
'backward' ones. Please let me know which regions are
backward so that I can take them out.

FYI, I inherited the script from Jeff Polk.

Regards,
Peter


Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> > From: Peter Thoeny [mailto:peter.thoeny at attglobal.net]
> > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:37 AM
> 
> > please update the link to "Time and Date Gateway"
> > from http://www.bsdi.com/date to
> > http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate. I am the admin of TWiki.org and
> > inherited the date script from the BSDi folks since their web site is no
> > longer in service.
> 
> Thanks very much for sending us this URL.  I'll include this update in
> my next proposed patch.  I had been temporarily using
> <http://www.earth.com/date/> as that's Tony Sanders's site, but my
> vague impression was that he's no longer maintaining it.
> 
> A few minor suggestions.  First, this text is confusing:
> 
>    These are the ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1 (aka POSIX.1)
>    timezone names, (per section 8.1.1 of that document).
> 
> None of the names on that page are specified by POSIX; they are all
> extensions to POSIX defined by the Olson tz database.  Perhaps it'd be
> better to simply refer to the Olson database
> <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm>.
> 
> Second:
> 
>   Greenwich Mean Time (GMT/UCT/UTC/Universal/Zulu):
> 
>   +12 +11 +10 +9 +8 +7 +6 +5 +4 +3 +2 +1 GMT -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12 -13
> 
> It'd be helpful here to mention that positive numbers count hours west
> of GMT (which is opposite to the usual convention).
> 
> Third, the top level divisions (Africa, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctica,
> ...)  are not alphabetized; it'd be a bit clearer if they were.
> 
> Fourth, I wouldn't list the entries in the 'backward' file.  For
> example, the Brazil/* entries are not a list of all the locations in
> Brazil, as an ordinary reader would expect; they're merely a list of
> old Brazilian backward-compatibility links.  It'd be simpler to omit
> the 'backward' entries.
> 
> Finally, can you run NTP on that web server's host?  It's currently
> running about 90 seconds slow.
> 
> Thanks again for the URL.



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