[tz] [PROPOSED 2/4] Use US legal capitalization for Chamorro

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Jan 23 20:48:03 UTC 2023


* australasia, northamerica: Fix capitalization in commentary
about US law, as the law says “Chamorro standard time” not
the popular “Chamorro Standard Time”.

primarily for “§” and we might as well support them all.
---
 australasia  | 4 ++--
 northamerica | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index af0410ab..749b72c8 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
 # period.  It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during
 # that period of time like the surrounding area.
 
-# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23):
 # Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
 # Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
 # (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
 # they did as that avoids the need for a separate zone due to our 1970 cutoff.
 #
 # US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
-# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
+# under the name "Chamorro standard time".  There is no official abbreviation,
 # but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
 # wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
 
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 24b68e72..be5825b8 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -276,9 +276,10 @@ Zone	PST8PDT		 -8:00	US	P%sT
 #  -10	Standard Alaska Time (AST)	Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST)
 #  -11	(unofficial) Nome (NST)		Bering standard time (BST)
 #
-# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
-# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time"
+# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23), from a 2001-01-08 heads-up from Rives McDow:
+# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced "Chamorro standard time"
 # for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.  See the file "australasia".
+# Also see 15 U.S.C. §263 <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/263>.
 #
 # From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):
 # HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian
-- 
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