Tzdata2004d.tar.gz

[Paul Eggert]

"Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:

> The file...
> 	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2004d.tar.gz
> ...is now available; this includes the changes circulated by Paul Eggert for
> Uruguay and the commentary on Israel, as well as the updates to tz-link.htm
> (modulo elimination of a space character).

Unfortunately tz-link.htm is in tzcode*.tar.gz, which wasn't updated.

I looked for a redundant space and found one in this line:

"<abbr>EST</abbr>".  For <abbr>POSIX</abbr> the <code>tz</code>

Was that the one you found?  But this led me to discover that I had
inadvertently reformatted a big chunk of text at the end, most likely
due to an errant Emacs keystroke.  Sorry about that.

Can you please use the following patch instead?  It's identical to the
previous patch in terms of text; all it changes is the spacing and the
date-of-modification. Thanks.

--- tz-link.htm	2004/07/19 18:32:49	2004.2
+++ tz-link.htm	2004/09/22 17:49:25	2004.2.1.3
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 <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="2004-07-13" />
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2004-09-22" />
 <meta name="DC.Description"
  content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time" />
 <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm" />
@@ -23,25 +23,28 @@
 </address>
 <p>
 Please send corrections to this web page to the
-<a href="mailto:tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.
-</p>
+<a href="mailto:tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
 <h2>The <code>tz</code> database</h2>
 <p>
 The public-domain time zone database contains code and data
 that represent the history of local time
 for many representative locations around the globe.
 It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies
-to UTC offsets and daylight-saving rules.
+to <abbr title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</abbr>
+offsets and daylight-saving rules.
 This database (often called <code>tz</code> or <code>zoneinfo</code>)
 is used by several implementations,
 including
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">the GNU C Library</a> used in
-<a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux</a>,
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">the
+<acronym title="GNU's Not Unix">GNU</acronym>
+C Library</a> used in
+<a href="http://www.linux.org/"><acronym>GNU</acronym>/Linux</a>,
 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>,
 <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>,
 <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
 <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>,
-<a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/">DJGPP</a>,
+<a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/"><abbr
+title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
 <a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/">HP-UX</a>,
 <a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/">IRIX</a>,
 <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a>,
@@ -55,24 +58,30 @@ clocks keeping local time have agreed si
 Locations are identified by continent or ocean and then by the name of
 the location, which is typically the largest city within the region.
 For example, <code>America/New_York</code>
-represents most of the US eastern time zone;
+represents most of the <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> eastern time zone;
 <code>America/Indianapolis</code> represents most of Indiana, which
-uses eastern time without daylight saving time (DST);
+uses eastern time without daylight saving time (<abbr
+title="daylight saving time">DST</abbr>);
 <code>America/Detroit</code> represents most of Michigan, which uses
-eastern time but with different DST rules in 1975;
+eastern time but with different <abbr>DST</abbr> rules in 1975;
 and other entries represent smaller regions like Starke County,
 Kentucky, which switched from central to eastern time in 1991.
-To use the database, set the <code>TZ</code> environment variable to
+To use the database on an extended <a
+href="http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX"><abbr
+title="Portable Operating System Interface">POSIX</abbr></a>
+implementation set the <code>TZ</code> environment variable to
 the location's full name, e.g., <code>TZ="America/New_York"</code>.</p>
 <p>
 In the <code>tz</code> database's
-<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">FTP distribution</a>,
+<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"><abbr
+title="File Transfer Protocol">FTP</abbr> distribution</a>
 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.
 The following shell commands download
-these files to a GNU/Linux or similar host; see the downloaded
+these files to a <acronym>GNU</acronym>/Linux or similar host;
+see the downloaded
 <code>README</code> file for what to do next.</p>
 <pre style="margin-left: 2em"><code><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/">gzip</a> -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/">tar</a> -xf -
@@ -92,7 +101,10 @@ mailing list, retrieve the <a
 href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">archive of old
 messages</a> (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve <a
 href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/">archived older versions of code
-and data</a>.</p>
+and data</a>; there is also a smaller <a
+href="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/timezone/"><abbr
+title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
+mirror</a>.</p>
 <p>
 The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data.
 Here are some recent links that may be of interest.
@@ -104,7 +116,9 @@ is a text-based point-and-click interfac
 throughout the world.</li>
 <li>Fancier web interfaces, roughly in ascending order of complexity, include:
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current Time in 1000 Places</a></li>
+<li><a
+href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current
+Time in 1000 Places</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a></li>
 </ul></li>
 <li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
@@ -116,21 +130,29 @@ is a web interface to a time zone databa
 <ul>
 <li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">
 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
-(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the <a
-href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF
-Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (calsch)</a> covers time zone
+(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the (now-concluded) <a
+href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/calsch-charter.html"><abbr
+title="Internet Engineering Task Force">IETF</abbr>
+Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (<abbr
+title="Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group">calsch</abbr>)</a>
+covers time zone
 data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.</li>
 <li>The <a
 href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a>
-list discusses <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>-based calendar
+list discusses <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/"><abbr
+title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr></a>-based calendar
 and group scheduling systems, and has a <a
 href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone
 data</a> converted from <code>tz</code>. An earlier <a
 href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out by <a
 href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a>.</li>
 <li><a
-href="http://www.calsch.org/ietf/archives/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-02.txt">XCal</a>
-was a draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> document type
+href="http://www.calsch.org/ietf/archives/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-02.txt"><abbr
+title="XML DTD for iCalendar">XCal</abbr></a>
+was a draft <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr
+title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> document type
 definition that corresponded to iCalendar.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2>
@@ -139,47 +161,57 @@ definition that corresponded to iCalenda
 Timezone Converter</a> describes a program Vzic that compiles
 <code>tz</code> source into iCalendar-compatible VTIMEZONE files.
 Vzic is freely
-available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU
-General Public License (GPL)</a>.</li>
+available under the <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"><acronym>GNU</acronym>
+General Public License (<abbr
+title="General Public License">GPL</abbr>)</a>.</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/">DateTime::TimeZone</a>
 contains a script <code>parse_olson</code> that compiles
 <code>tz</code> source into <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>
 modules. It is part of the Perl <a
 href="http://datetime.perl.org/">DateTime Project</a>, which is freely
-available under both the GPL and the Perl Artistic
+available under both the <abbr>GPL</abbr> and the Perl Artistic
 License. DateTime::TimeZone also contains a script
 <code>tests_from_zdump</code> that generates test cases for each clock
 transition in the <code>tz</code> database.</li>
-<li><a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">International Components for
-Unicode (ICU)</a> contains a C/C++ library for internationalization that
-has a compiler from <samp>tz</samp> source into an ICU-specific format.
-ICU is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li>
+<li><a href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/"><abbr
+title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr></a>
+contains a C/C++ library for internationalization that
+has a compiler from <samp>tz</samp> source
+into an <abbr>ICU</abbr>-specific format.
+<abbr>ICU</abbr> is freely available under a
+<abbr title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
 <li><a href="http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/">Joda Time - Java date
-and time API</a> contains a class
+and time <abbr title="Application Program Interface">API</abbr></a>
+contains a class
 <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles
 <code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time
-is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li>
+is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
 <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/">PyTZ - Python Time
 Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into
 <a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>.
-It is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li>
+It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2>
 <ul>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU C Library</a>
+<li>The <a
+href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/"><acronym>GNU</acronym> C
+Library</a>
 has an independent, thread-safe implementation of
 a <code>tz</code> binary file reader.
 This library is freely available under the
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html">
-GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)</a>,
-and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems.</li>
+<acronym>GNU</acronym> Lesser General Public License
+(<abbr title="Lesser General Public License">LGPL</abbr>)</a>,
+and is widely used in <acronym>GNU</acronym>/Linux systems.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a>
 is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
-It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li>
+It is freely available under the <acronym>GNU</acronym>
+<abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html">Python time zones</a>
 is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Python.
-It is freely available under a BSD-style license.</li>
+It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2>
 <ul>
@@ -198,8 +230,8 @@ Microsoft Windows program.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas Query</a>
 is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
 excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a
-href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.php">computer</a> and <a
-href="http://astrocom.com/books/xrefa.php#SHANKS">book</a> form by <a
+href="http://astrocom.com/products/software.php?software_id=ibmwboth">computer
+and book form</a> by <a
 href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Communications Services</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive atlas,
 time info, public holidays</a>
@@ -208,14 +240,14 @@ and public holidays in several hundred c
 <li><a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a>
 is another time zone database.</li>
 <li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a>
-contains data from the Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory
-(USNO), used as the source
+contains data from the Time Service Department of the
+<abbr>US</abbr> Naval Observatory, used as the source
 for the <code>usno*</code> files in the <code>tz</code> distribution.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/">Airlines, Airplanes
 and Airports</a> lists current standard times for thousands of
 airports around the world. This seems to be derived from
 the <a href="http://www.iata.org/ps/publications/9179.htm">Standard
-Schedules Information Manual (SSIM)</a> of the
+Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
 the <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport
 Association</a>,
 which gives current time zone rules for
@@ -224,7 +256,8 @@ all the airports served by commercial av
 <h2>Maps</h2>
 <ul>
 <li>The <a href="http://www.odci.gov/">United States Central
-Intelligence Agency (CIA)</a> publishes a <a
+Intelligence Agency (<abbr
+title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</abbr>)</a> publishes a <a
 href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time
 zone map</a>; the
 <a
@@ -238,19 +271,26 @@ and parts of the data are a few years ou
 <li><a href="http://worldtimezone.com/">Current time around the world
 and standard time zones map of the world</a>
 has several fancy time zone maps; it covers Russia particularly well.
-The maps' pictorial quality is not quite as good as the CIA's
+The maps' pictorial quality is not quite as good as the
+<abbr>CIA</abbr>'s
 but the maps are more up to date.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Time zone boundaries</h2>
 <ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions
+of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains detailed lists of
+<code>tz</code>-related zone subdivision data.</li>
 <li><a href="http://home-4.tiscali.nl/~t876506/Multizones.html">Time
 zone boundaries for multizone countries</a> summarizes legal
 boundaries between time zones within countries.</li>
 <li>Manifold.net's <a
 href="http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html">Free Maps and
-GIS Data</a> includes a Manifold-format map of world time zone
-boundaries distributed under the GPL.</li>
-<li>The US Geological Survey's National Atlas of the United States
+<acronym title="Geographic Information Systems">GIS</acronym>
+Data</a> includes a Manifold-format map of
+world time zone boundaries distributed under the
+<abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
+<li>The <abbr>US</abbr> Geological Survey's National Atlas of
+the United States
 publishes the <a href="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/timeznm.html">Time
 Zones of the United States</a> in the public domain.</li>
 <li>The GeoCommunity lists several commercial sources for <a
@@ -262,8 +302,8 @@ Time Zones and Time Zone Data</a>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time">A Walk through Time</a>
 surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li>
 <li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/">About Daylight
-Saving Time - History, rationale, laws and dates</a>
-is an overall history of DST.</li>
+Saving Time - History, rationale, laws &amp; dates</a>
+is an overall history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/">The
 Time of Internet</a>
 describes time zones and daylight saving time,
@@ -278,10 +318,11 @@ Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminologic
 <h2>National histories of legal time</h2>
 <dl>
 <dt>Australia</dt>
-<dd>The Community Relations Division of the New South Wales (NSW)
+<dd>The Community Relations Division of the New South Wales
+(<abbr title="New South Wales">NSW</abbr>)
 Attorney General's Department maintains a <a
 href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2">history of
-daylight saving in NSW</a>.</dd>
+daylight saving in <abbr>NSW</abbr></a>.</dd>
 <dt>Austria</dt>
 <dd>The Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying publishes a
 table of <a href="http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf"
@@ -350,40 +391,59 @@ of summer time dates</a>.</dd>
 href="http://literature.agilent.com/litwebbin/purl.cgi?org_id=tmo&amp;pub_id=5965-7984E">The
 Science of Timekeeping</a> is a thorough introduction
 to the theory and practice of precision timekeeping.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.ntp.org/">NTP: The Network Time Protocol</a>
+<li><a href="http://www.ntp.org/"><abbr
+title="Network Time Protocol">NTP</abbr>: The Network
+Time Protocol</a>
 discusses how to synchronize clocks of
 Internet hosts.</li>
-<li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.txt"
-charset="macintosh">A
-Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO</a>
-answers questions like "What is the difference between GMT and UTC?"</li>
+<li><a href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/GMT.UT.and.the.RGO.html">A Few
+Facts Concerning <abbr title="Greenwich Mean Time">GMT</abbr>, <abbr
+title="Universal Time">UT</abbr>, and
+the <abbr title="Royal Greenwich Observatory">RGO</abbr></a>
+answers questions like "What is the
+difference between <abbr>GMT</abbr> and <abbr>UTC</abbr>?"</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://www.gb.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html">Astronomical
-Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like TT, TCG,
-and TDB.</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org/">IAU</a>'s <a
-href="http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/">Standards Of Fundamental
-Astronomy</a> (SOFA) initiative publishes Fortran code for converting
-among time scales like TAI, TDB, TT and UTC.</li>
+Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like
+<abbr title="Terrestrial Dynamic Time">TDT</abbr>,
+<abbr title="Geocentric Coordinate Time">TCG</abbr>, and
+<abbr title="Barycentric Dynamic Time">TDB</abbr>.</li>
+<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org/"><abbr
+title="International Astronomical Union">IAU</abbr></a>'s <a
+href="http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/"><acronym
+title="Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy">SOFA</acronym></a>
+initiative publishes Fortran
+code for converting among time scales like
+<abbr title="International Atomic Time">TAI</abbr>,
+<abbr>TDB</abbr>, <abbr>TDT</abbr> and
+<abbr>UTC</abbr>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.htm">Basics of
 Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions</a>
 briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html">Technical
 Notes on Mars Solar Time as Adopted by the Mars24 Sunclock</a> briefly
-describes Mars Coordinated Time (MTC) and the diverse local time
+describes Mars Coordinated Time (<abbr
+title="Mars Coordinated Time">MTC</abbr>) and the
+diverse local time
 scales used by each landed mission on Mars.</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/products/bulletins/bulletins.html">Bulletins
-maintained by the IERS EOP (PC)</a> contains official publications of
+maintained by the
+<abbr title="International Earth Rotation Service">IERS</abbr>
+<abbr title="Earth Orientation Parameters">EOP</abbr>
+(<abbr title="Product Center">PC</abbr>)</a> contains official publications of
 the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the
 International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides
 when leap seconds occur.</li>
 <li>The <a
 href="http://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@rom.usno.navy.mil/">Leap
-Second Discussion List</a> covers McCarthy and Klepczynski's proposal
-to discontinue leap seconds, published in <a
-href="http://www.gpsworld.com/">GPS World</a> <strong>10</strong>, 11
+Second Discussion List</a> covers <a
+href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy
+and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>, published in <a
+href="http://www.gpsworld.com/"><abbr
+title="Global Positioning System">GPS</abbr> World</a>
+<strong>10</strong>, 11
 (1999-11), 50&ndash;57 and discussed further in R. A. Nelson et al.,
 <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The
 leap second: its history and possible future</a>,
@@ -398,18 +458,24 @@ contentious issue.</li>
 <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
-summary of ISO
+summary of
+<abbr title="International Organization for Standardization">ISO</abbr>
 8601:1988 - Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange
 - Representation of dates and times (which has been superseded by
-<a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26780">ISO 8601:2000</a>).</li>
+<a
+href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26780"><abbr>ISO</abbr>
+8601:2000</a>).</li>
 <li>
 Section 3.3 of <a
-href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet RFC 2822</a>
+href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet
+<abbr title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 2822</a>
 specifies the time notation used in email and <a
-href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt">HTTP</a> headers.</li>
+href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt"><abbr>HTTP</abbr></a>
+headers.</li>
 <li>
-<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt">Internet RFC
-3339</a> specifies an ISO 8601 profile for use in new Internet
+<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt">Internet
+<abbr>RFC</abbr> 3339</a> specifies an <abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601
+profile for use in new Internet
 protocols.</li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The
@@ -419,17 +485,19 @@ by software developers when handling dat
 href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icuhtml/design/formatting/time_zone_localization.html">Time
 Zone Localization</a> is a proposed mechanism for localizing time zone
 labels and abbreviations; for example, one might use it to specify
-Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "EEST", and
-<code>Europe/Bucharest</code>.</li>
-<li>
-Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique
-identifiers for UTC offsets as they are ambiguous in practice. For
-example, "EST" denotes 5 hours behind UTC in English-speaking North
-America, but it denotes 10 or 11 hours ahead of UTC in Australia;
-and French-speaking North Americans prefer "HNE" to "EST". For
-compatibility with <a href="http://www.pasc.org/#POSIX">POSIX</a> the
-<code>tz</code> database contains English abbreviations for all time
-stamps but in many cases these are merely inventions of the database
+Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time",
+"<abbr title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>",
+and <code>Europe/Bucharest</code>.</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
+<abbr>UTC</abbr> in English-speaking North America, but it denotes 10
+or 11 hours ahead of <abbr>UTC</abbr> in Australia; and
+French-speaking North Americans prefer
+"<abbr title="Heure Normale de l'Est">HNE</abbr>" to
+"<abbr>EST</abbr>". For <abbr>POSIX</abbr> the <code>tz</code>
+database contains English abbreviations for all time stamps but in
+many cases these are merely inventions of the database
 maintainers.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Related indexes</h2>
@@ -437,8 +505,10 @@ maintainers.</li>
 <li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
 Reference: Time</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google Directory - Reference &gt; Time</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/">Yahoo! Science &gt; Measurements and Units &gt; Time</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google Directory
+- Reference &gt; Time</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/">Yahoo!
+Science &gt; Measurements and Units &gt; Time</a></li>
 </ul>
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