[tz] scope of tz database, scholarship

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks, I pushed this draft of a change:

>From 614b193e524d74d0b6b616b64ec1fb58aa6a3fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 01:51:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * Theory: Improve citation to Morrison & Stephenson.

Mention the 1972 UTC transition.  See Steve Allen in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019770.html>.
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 Theory | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Theory b/Theory
index 4081b24..bd62c5c 100644
--- a/Theory
+++ b/Theory
@@ -240,12 +240,16 @@ locations differ in LMT.  Historically, not only did different
 locations in the same zone typically use different LMT offsets, often
 different people in the same location maintained mean-time clocks that
 differed significantly, many people used solar or some other time
-instead of mean time, and standard time often replaced LMT only gradually
-at each location.  As for leap seconds, we don't know the history
-of earth's rotation accurately enough to map SI seconds to historical
-solar time to more than about one-hour accuracy; see Stephenson FR
-(2003), Historical eclipses and Earth's rotation, A&G 44: 2.22-2.27
-<http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-4004.2003.44222.x>.
+instead of mean time, and standard time often replaced LMT only
+gradually at each location.  As for leap seconds, civil time was not
+based on atomic time before 1972, and we don't know the history of
+earth's rotation accurately enough to map SI seconds to historical
+solar time to more than about one-hour accuracy.  See: Morrison LV,
+Stephenson FR. Historical values of the Earth's clock error Delta T
+and the calculation of eclipses. J Hist Astron. 2004;35:327-36
+<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2004JHA....35..327M>; Historical
+values of the Earth's clock error. J Hist Astron. 2005;36:339
+<http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JHA....36..339M>.
 
 As noted in the README file, the tz database is not authoritative
 (particularly not for pre-1970 time stamps), and it surely has errors.
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