[tz] Web sites using recent versions of the tz database

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Mar 8 07:28:54 UTC 2014


Thanks for the various heads-up about links in tz-link.htm.  I installed 
the attached patch.
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From c21d10b11e58cab3c8a5a9823fafda928d3dbc0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 23:26:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update tz-link.htm.

* tz-link.htm, NEWS: Add Time.is (thanks to Even Scharning), WX-now
(thanks to David Braverman), TZ4Net (thanks to Matt Johnson).
Remove Simple Timer + Clocks.
---
 NEWS        |  8 +++++++-
 tz-link.htm | 16 +++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 593ba15..68e9da9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
     Several changes affect tz-link.htm, the main web page.
 
+      Mention Time.is (thanks to Even Scharning) and WX-now (thanks to
+      David Braverman).
+
       Mention xCal (Internet RFC 6321) and jCal.
 
       Microsoft Windows 8.1 and later support tz database names.
@@ -52,11 +55,14 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
       Mention Maggiolo's map of solar vs standard time.
       (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
 
+      Mention TZ4Net.  (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
+
       Mention the timezone-olson Haskell package.
 
       Mention zeitverschiebung.net.  (Thanks to Martin Jaeger.)
 
-      Remove moribund link to daylight-savings-time.info.
+      Remove moribund links to daylight-savings-time.info and to
+      Simple Timer + Clocks.
 
       Update two links.  (Thanks to Oscar van Vlijmen.)
 
diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm
index 260d97c..c820e98 100644
--- a/tz-link.htm
+++ b/tz-link.htm
@@ -163,6 +163,8 @@ database's style.</li>
 These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness.
 </p>
 <ul>
+<li><a href="http://time.is/">Time.is</a> shows locations'
+time and zones in a simple format.</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html">Date and Time Gateway</a>
 lets you see the <code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> values directly.</li>
@@ -181,12 +183,10 @@ links that refer to a particular point in time and can be displayed in
 multiple timezones.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.zeitverschiebung.net/en/">Time Difference</a>
 calculates the current time difference between locations.</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.wx-now.com/">Weather Now</a> lists the weather too.</li>
 <li><a href="http://worldtime.io/">worldtime.io</a>
 also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports queries via place
 names and shows location maps.</li>
-<li><a href="http://simpletimerclocks.mozdev.org/">Simple Timer + Clocks</a>
-is a Firefox add-on which uses a timezone data file generated from the
-<code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data files.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
 <ul>
@@ -270,10 +270,12 @@ contains a class
 <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles
 <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time
 is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
-<li><a href="http://nodatime.org/">Noda Time – Date and time API
-for .NET</a> is similar to Joda Time, but for the .NET framework
-instead of Java. It is freely available under the
-<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License</a>.</li>
+<li><a href="http://nodatime.org/">Noda Time – Date and time API for
+.NET</a> and <a href="http://www.babiej.demon.nl/Tz4Net/main.htm">TZ4Net</a>
+are similar to Joda Time, but for the .NET framework instead of
+Java. They are freely available under the
+<a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License</a>
+and a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license, respectively.</li>
 <li><a href="https://github.com/mde/timezone-js">TimezoneJS.Date</a>
 is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">JavaScript</a>
 library that parses <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source files and interprets time
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1.8.3.2



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