[tz] Fixed typos
Dominique Pellé
dominique.pelle at gmail.com
Wed Aug 16 23:27:27 UTC 2017
Hi
Following patch fixes various typos:
diff --git a/asia b/asia
index e26ef1b..7518e0c 100644
--- a/asia
+++ b/asia
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1
# From Paul Eggert (2017-04-20):
# Good luck trying to nail down old timekeeping records in India.
# "... in the nineteenth century ... Madras Observatory took its magnetic
-# measurements in Göttingen time, its meterological measurements on Madras
+# measurements in Göttingen time, its metrological measurements on Madras
# (local) time, dropped its time ball on Greenwich (ocean navigator's) time,
# and distributed civil (local time)." -- Bartky IR. Selling the time:
# 19th-century timekeeping in america. Stanford U Press (2000), 247 note 19.
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1
#
# "In 1870 ... Madras time - 'now used by the telegraph and regulated from the
# only government observatory' - was suggested as a standard railway time,
-# first to be dopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR)....
+# first to be adopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR)....
# Calcutta, Bombay, and Karachi, were to be allowed to continue with their
# local time for civil purposes." - Prasad R. Tracks of Change: Railways and
# Everyday Life in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press (2016), 145.
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 6bf0f0a..1e38db7 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -1306,7 +1306,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
# (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
#
-# Victoria will following NSW. See:
+# Victoria will follow NSW. See:
# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
#
diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
index 69f6a95..255c4a6 100644
--- a/backzone
+++ b/backzone
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ Zone Europe/Guernsey -0:10:09 - LMT 1913 Jun 18
# Time Act in 1883 and including additional confirmation of some of
# the dates of the 'Summer Time' orders originating at
# Westminster. There is a little uncertainty as to the starting date
-# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have be announced a
+# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have been announced a
# couple of days late. There is still a substantial number of
# documents to work through, but it is thought that every GB change
# was also implemented on the island.
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 0620db6..8cc55e8 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
# http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1333711
# http://www.pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?111660
# http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/46279
-# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will looks like this:
+# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will look like this:
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-map-2014-07.html
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
index 6038c3b..a07da71 100644
--- a/southamerica
+++ b/southamerica
@@ -1076,7 +1076,7 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
# [1] Chile Law
# http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
-# This contains a copy of a this official table:
+# This contains a copy of this official table:
# Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
# http://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
# [1] needs several corrections, though.
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