From 40dae96a262133f6fd590a49d016366e69b6fb8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:23:09 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Eggert mods SCCS-file: tz-link.htm SCCS-SID: 8.15 --- tz-link.htm | 160 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-) diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index 2ca6a82..51a18c0 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ - + @@ -45,18 +45,18 @@ including C Library used in GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, -NetBSD, -OpenBSD, -Cygwin, +NetBSD, +OpenBSD, +Cygwin, DJGPP, -AIX, +AIX, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, -Oracle Database, -Solaris, +Oracle Database, +Solaris, Tru64, and -UnixWare.

+UnixWare.

Each location in the database represents a national region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970. @@ -79,13 +79,14 @@ implementation set the TZ environment variable to the location's full name, e.g., TZ="America/New_York".

In the tz database's -FTP distribution the code is in the file tzcodeC.tar.gz, where C is the code's version; similarly, the data are in tzdataD.tar.gz, where D is the data's version. -The following shell commands download +The following shell commands download these files to a GNU/Linux or similar host; see the downloaded README file for what to do next.

@@ -102,15 +103,15 @@ location.

The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please send changes to the time zone mailing list. You can also browse recent +href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz">browse recent messages sent to the mailing list, subscribe to it, retrieve the full archive of old messages (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve archived older versions of code +href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz">archived older versions of code and data; there is also a smaller HTTP mirror.

@@ -118,45 +119,47 @@ The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Here are some recent links that may be of interest.

Web pages using recent versions of the tz database

+

+These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness. +

Other time zone database formats

Other tz-based time zone software

Other time zone databases

@@ -307,15 +310,15 @@ href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Communications Services. time info, public holidays contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset, and public holidays in several hundred cities around the world. -
  • World Time Server +
  • World Time Server is another time zone database.
  • World Time Zones contains data from the Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory, used as the source for the usno* files in the tz distribution.
    • -
  • The Standard +
  • The Standard Schedules Information Manual of the -International Air Transport +International Air Transport Association gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.
  • Some Microsoft Windows versions contain time zone information in @@ -350,11 +353,11 @@ but the maps are more up to date.

    • Time zone boundaries

    National histories of legal time

    @@ -428,9 +431,7 @@ Portuguese).
    The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes current and some older information about Time -Zones & Daylight Saving Time. -Canadian -Daylight Saving Regulations summarizes changes for 2007.
    +Zones & Daylight Saving Time.
    Chile
    The Chilean Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service publishes a history of @@ -441,7 +442,7 @@ href="http://www.ptb.de/en/org/4/44/441/dars_e.htm">Realisation of Legal Time in Germany.
    Israel
    The Interior Ministry periodically issues announcements (in Hebrew).
    Mexico
    The Investigation and Analysis Service of the Mexican Library of @@ -456,9 +457,9 @@ hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch) covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.
    New Zealand
    The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief history About +href="http://dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Information-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">About Daylight Saving. The privately-maintained History of New Zealand +href="http://astrologyschool.com/nztime.html">History of New Zealand time has more details.
    Norway
    The Norwegian Meteorological Institute lists @@ -491,8 +492,9 @@ Time Protocol discusses how to synchronize clocks of Internet hosts.
  • A -Timezone Option for DHCP +href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4833.txt">Timezone +Options for DHCP +(Internet RFC 4833) specifies a DHCP option for a server to configure a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.
    • @@ -510,7 +512,7 @@ Times explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like TDB. Time Scales goes into more detail, particularly for historical variants. -
  • The The IAU's SOFA @@ -519,7 +521,7 @@ code for converting among time scales like TAI, TDB, TDT and UTC.
    • -
  • Basics of +
  • Basics of Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.
  • MTC) and the diverse local time scales used by each landed mission on Mars.
    • -
  • LeapSecond.com is +
  • LeapSecond.com is dedicated not only to leap seconds but to precise time and frequency in general. It covers the state of the art in amateur timekeeping, and how the art has progressed over the past few decades.
    • @@ -543,15 +545,14 @@ the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides when leap seconds occur.
  • The Leap -Second Discussion List and archive covers Leap +Second Discussion List covers McCarthy and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds, discussed further in The leap second: its history and possible future. -The AAS Leap Second Committee has solicited input on this proposal. The @@ -574,14 +575,15 @@ interchange -- Representation of dates and times.
    • Schema: Datatypes - dateTime specifies a format inspired by ISO 8601 that is in common use in XML data.
  • -Internet RFC 2822 §3.3 +Internet +Message Format (Internet RFC 2822) §3.3 specifies the time notation used in email and HTTP headers.
  • -Internet -RFC 3339 specifies an ISO 8601 +Date and Time +on the Internet: Timestamps (Internet RFC 3339) +specifies an ISO 8601 profile for use in new Internet protocols.
  • @@ -589,7 +591,7 @@ protocols.
    • Formats on the Web surveys web- and Internet-oriented date and time formats.
  • -The +The Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates covers many problems encountered by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.
  • The EEST", and "Bucharest". By-Type +href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.html">By-Type Chart: names.metazone shows these values for many locales. ICU contains a mechanism for using this data.
  • Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique @@ -632,11 +634,11 @@ is called "GMT".

    • Related indexes