[tz] [PATCH] More spelling and accent fixes.
Paul Eggert
eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Fri Jun 27 23:06:47 UTC 2014
Plus, update a now-obsolete source for Samoa's late-2011 change to the
International Date Line.
---
Makefile | 2 +-
NEWS | 4 ++--
Theory | 2 +-
asia | 22 +++++++++++-----------
australasia | 44 +++++++-------------------------------------
europe | 8 ++++----
northamerica | 4 ++--
southamerica | 4 ++--
8 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index ff941a0..8de640a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ LDLIBS=
# year 2000 grief
# -Dtime_tz=\"T\" to use T as the time_t type, rather than the system time_t
# -DTZ_DOMAIN=\"foo\" to use "foo" for gettext domain name; default is "tz"
-# -TTZ_DOMAINDIR=\"/path\" to use "/path" for gettext directory;
+# -DTZ_DOMAINDIR=\"/path\" to use "/path" for gettext directory;
# the default is system-supplied, typically "/usr/lib/locale"
# -DTZDEFRULESTRING=\",date/time,date/time\" to default to the specified
# DST transitions if the time zone files cannot be accessed
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 789f955..162a113 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ Release data2009m - 2009-09-03 10:23:43 -0400
Release data2009l - 2009-08-14 09:13:07 -0400
- Samao (comments only) and Egypt
+ Samoa (comments only) and Egypt
Release 2009k - 2009-07-20 09:46:08 -0400
@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ Release 2005o - 2005-11-28 10:55:26 -0500
Release 2005n - 2005-10-03 09:44:09 -0400
- changes by Paul Eggert (both the Uruguary changes and the Kyrgyzstan
+ changes by Paul Eggert (both the Uruguay changes and the Kyrgyzstan
et al. changes)
diff --git a/Theory b/Theory
index ef26751..a956d85 100644
--- a/Theory
+++ b/Theory
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ Gregorian calendar:
14/25 Dec 1583 - Steiermark
06/17 Jan 1584 - Austria and Bohemia
-11/22 Jan 1584 - Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn
+11/22 Jan 1584 - Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn
12/23 Jan 1584 - Silesia and the Lausitz
22 Jan/
02 Feb 1584 - Hungary (legally on 21 Oct 1587)
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index 5f76ab7..54a8dc7 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
# Peking (Beijing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
-# has two of 'em - Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
+# has two of 'em - Peking's and Ürümqi (named after the capital of
# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
#
# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
-# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
+# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Ürümqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
#
# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
-Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
+Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # Ürümqi or Ürümchi
6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Ürümqi Time
8:00 PRC C%sT
# Kunlun Time
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
# population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two
# hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang
# Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as
-# local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in
+# local governments such as the Ürümqi city government use both times in
# publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as
-# "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language
+# "Ürümqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language
# they almost invariably use Xinjiang time.
#
# (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its
@@ -418,17 +418,17 @@ Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
# time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and
# others moving their clocks ahead.)
#
-# ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time.
+# ...an example of an official website using of Ürümqi time.
#
# The first few lines of the Google translation of
# http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39
# (retrieved 2009-10-13)
-# > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least
+# > Ürümqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least
# > 500 million yuan
# >
-# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20),
-# > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River
-# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men
+# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Ürümqi Time 18:20),
+# > Ürümqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River
+# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Ürümqi City Fire officers and men
# > have worked continuously for 22 hours...
# From Luther Ma (2009-11-19):
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
# 3. Urumqi...
# 4. Kashgar...
# ...
-# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the
+# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Ürümqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the
# 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding
# countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child.
#
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 045be88..1cb34a3 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -571,42 +571,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
#
# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
-# From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17):
-# I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law
-# Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she
-# confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather
-# than the time zone change, but I'll paste the relevant bits below. But
-# the essence is that at midnight 29 Dec (UTC-11 I suppose), Samoa
-# changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13:
-#
-# International Date Line Bill 2011
-#
-# AN ACT to provide for the change to standard time in Samoa and to make
-# consequential amendments to the position of the International Date
-# Line, and for related purposes.
-#
-# BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament
-# assembled as follows:
-#
-# 1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the
-# International Date Line Act 2011. (2) Except for section 5(3) this Act
-# commences at 12 o'clock midnight, on Thursday 29th December 2011. (3)
-# Section 5(3) commences on the date of assent by the Head of State.
-#
-# [snip]
-#
-# 3. Interpretation - [snip] "Samoa standard time" in this Act and any
-# other statute of Samoa which refers to 'Samoa standard time' means the
-# time 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time.
-#
-# 4. Samoa standard time - (1) Upon the commencement of this Act, Samoa
-# standard time shall be set at 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated
-# Universal Time for the whole of Samoa. (2) All references to Samoa's
-# time zone and to Samoa standard time in Samoa in all legislation and
-# instruments after the commencement of this Act shall be references to
-# Samoa standard time as provided for in this Act. (3) Nothing in this
-# Act affects the provisions of the Daylight Saving Act 2009, except that
-# it defines Samoa standard time....
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
+# The International Date Line Act 2011
+# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
+# changed Samoa from UTC-11 to UTC+13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
+# Thursday 29th December 2011". The International Date Line was adjusted
+# accordingly.
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
@@ -649,7 +619,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
-11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26
-11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 2 4:00
-11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00
- -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30
+ -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 29 24:00
13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr Sun>=1 4:00
13:00 WS WS%sT
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 6ab0413..5ef94b0 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980
1:00 EU CE%sT
-Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn
+Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Tórshavn
0:00 - WET 1981
0:00 EU WE%sT
#
@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1
# <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists
# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in
# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite
-# frequent air ttacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a
+# frequent air attacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a
# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly
# the UT offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that
# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules.
@@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
# approval from 266 deputies.
#
-# Ukraine abolishes transter back to the winter time (in Russian)
+# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian)
# http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/
#
# The Ukrainians will no longer change the clock (in Russian)
@@ -2874,7 +2874,7 @@ Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880
2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991.
-# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
+# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Rusyn/Ukrainian pronunciation, but
# "Uzhgorod" is more common in English.
Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct
1:00 - CET 1940
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 28a05ce..66f362b 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
# with the following exceptions:
#
# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
-# Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
+# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
#
# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
#
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José
# web site, the Granma. Please check out
# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html
#
-# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsens information, the change
+# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change
# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12):
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index 4016306..de1f15e 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890
# From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
# ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
-# Oficial da Uniao"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
+# Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
# effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
#
# a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk # Caribbean Netherlands
# Ecuador
#
-# Milne says the Sentral and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
+# Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04):
# Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992.
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