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* tz-link.htm, NEWS: jCal is now RFC 7265. Mention PTP and the

draft CalDAV extension.  Update URLs for TSP, TZInfo, IATA.
Remove stale pointers to World Time Explorer and WORLDTIME.
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<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"'>
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul">
<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-05-27">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-06-04">
<meta name="DC.Description"
content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
<meta name="DC.Identifier"
@ -196,10 +196,11 @@ covers time zone
data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.
The iCalendar format requires specialized parsers and generators; a
variant <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6321">xCal</a>
(Internet RFC 6321) uses
(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 6321) uses
<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr
title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> format, and a draft variant
<a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcal/">jCal</a>
title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a> format, and a variant
<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265">jCal</a>
(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 7265)
uses <a href="http://www.json.org/"><abbr
title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr></a> format.
<a href="http://calconnect.org/">CalConnect, The Calendaring and Scheduling
@ -209,8 +210,12 @@ TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and
recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>.</li>
<li>CalConnect's <a href="http://calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml">TIMEZONE
Technical Committee</a> has developed
a <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-douglass-timezone-service-08">draft
timezone service protocol</a>. The committee's earlier <a
a <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-douglass-timezone-service-11">draft
timezone service protocol</a> along with a <a
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-daboo-caldav-timezone-ref-01">draft
extension</a> to the <a href="http://caldav.calconnect.org/">CalDAV
calendar access protocol</a> to allow time zone information to be exchanged
by reference. The committee's earlier <a
href="http://calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf">Timezone
Registry and Service Recommendations</a> discusses a
strategy for defining and deploying a time zone
@ -284,7 +289,7 @@ Dates. It is freely available under the Apache License.</li>
Definitions for Python</a> compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into
<a href="http://python.org/">Python</a>.
It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
<li><a href="http://tzinfo.rubyforge.org/">TZInfo &ndash;
<li><a href="http://tzinfo.github.io/">TZInfo &ndash;
Ruby Timezone Library</a>
compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into
<a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/">Ruby</a>.
@ -375,9 +380,6 @@ href="http://veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is
a Mac <abbr>OS X</abbr> program. Its developers
<a href="http://veladg.com/tzoffer.html">offer free
licenses</a> to <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> contributors.</li>
<li><a
href="http://worldtimeexplorer.com/">World Time Explorer</a> is a
Microsoft Windows program.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
<ul>
@ -391,10 +393,6 @@ for the U.S.</a>, and <a
href="http://www.astrocom.com/astrology/books/international-atlas">one for
other locations</a>) by <a
href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Computing Services</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive atlas,
time info, public holidays</a>
contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset,
and public holidays in several hundred cities around the world.</li>
<li><a href="http://worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a>
is another time zone database.</li>
<li><a href="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</a>
@ -404,7 +402,7 @@ for the <code><abbr>usno</abbr>*</code> files in
the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> distribution.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.iata.org/publications/Pages/ssim.aspx">Standard
Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
<a href="http://iata.org/index.htm">International Air Transport
<a href="http://iata.org/">International Air Transport
Association</a>
gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.</li>
<li>Some Microsoft Windows versions contain time zone information in
@ -482,7 +480,7 @@ common.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html">A
<li><a href="http://www.nist.gov/pml/general/time/index.cfm">A
Walk through Time</a>
surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li>
<li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/">About Daylight
@ -584,6 +582,9 @@ title="Network Time Protocol">NTP</abbr>: The Network
Time Protocol</a>
discusses how to synchronize clocks of
Internet hosts.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.nist.gov/el/isd/ieee/ieee1588.cfm">Precision
Time Protocol</a> (IEEE 1588) can achieve submicrosecond clock
accuracy on a local area network.</li>
<li><a
href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4833">Timezone
Options for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a>