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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <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="2007-11-29">
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2007-12-26">
 <meta name="DC.Description"
 content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
 <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm">
@@ -45,18 +45,18 @@ including
 C Library</a> used in
 <a href="http://www.linux.org/"><abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux</a>,
 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>,
-<a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>,
-<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
-<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>,
+<a href="http://netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>,
+<a href="http://openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
+<a href="http://cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>,
 <a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/"><abbr
 title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
-<a href="http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/">AIX</a>,
+<a href="http://ibm.com/aix">AIX</a>,
 <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a>,
 <a href="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/">OpenVMS</a>,
-<a href="http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html">Oracle Database</a>,
-<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>,
+<a href="http://oracle.com/database">Oracle Database</a>,
+<a href="http://sun.com/software/solaris">Solaris</a>,
 <a href="http://h30097.www3.hp.com/">Tru64</a>, and
-<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://sco.com/products/unixware">UnixWare</a>.</p>
 <p>
 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 <code>TZ</code> environment variable to
 the location's full name, e.g., <code>TZ="America/New_York"</code>.</p>
 <p>
 In the <code>tz</code> database's
-<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/"><abbr
+<a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub"><abbr
 title="File Transfer Protocol">FTP</abbr> distribution</a>
 the code is in the file <code>tzcode<var>C</var>.tar.gz</code>,
 where <code><var>C</var></code> is the code's version;
 similarly, the data are in <code>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</code>,
 where <code><var>D</var></code> is the data's version.
-The following shell commands download
+The following <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell">shell</a> commands download
 these files to a <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux or similar host;
 see the downloaded
 <code>README</code> file for what to do next.</p>
@@ -102,15 +103,15 @@ location.</p>
 The data are by no means authoritative. If you find errors, please
 send changes to the <a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone
 mailing list</a>. You can also <a
-href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/">browse recent
+href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz">browse recent
 messages</a> sent to the mailing list, <a
 href="mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov">subscribe</a> to it,
 retrieve the <a
 href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz">full archive of old
 messages</a> (in gzip compressed format), or retrieve <a
-href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/">archived older versions of code
+href="ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz">archived older versions of code
 and data</a>; there is also a smaller <a
-href="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/timezone/"><abbr
+href="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/timezone"><abbr
 title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol">HTTP</abbr>
 mirror</a>.</p>
 <p>
@@ -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.
 </p>
 <h2>Web pages using recent versions of the <code>tz</code> database</h2>
+<p>
+These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness.
+</p>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html">Date and Time Gateway</a>
-is a text-based point-and-click interface to tables of current time
-throughout the world.</li>
-<li>Fancier web interfaces, roughly in ascending order of complexity, include:
-<ul>
+lets you see the <code>TZ</code> values directly.</li>
 <li><a
-href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current
-Time in 1000 Places</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a></li>
+href="http://convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current
+Time in 1000 Places</a> uses descriptions of the values.</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a>
+uses a pulldown menu.</li>
 <li><a href="http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/TZworld.html">Complete
-timezone information for all countries</a></li>
-</ul></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
-Time Zones</a>
-is a web interface to a time zone database derived from
-<code>tz</code>'s.</li>
+timezone information for all countries</a> displays tables of DST rules.
+<li><a href="http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
+Time Zones</a> lets you sort zone names and convert times.</li>
+<li>The <a href="http://worldtimeengine.com/">World Time Engine</a>
+also contains data about time zone boundaries; it supports queries via place
+names and shows location maps.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
 <ul>
 <li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">
 Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
-(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the (now-concluded) <a
-href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/calsch-charter.html"><abbr
+(iCalendar)</a>, Internet <abbr title="Request For
+Comments">RFC</abbr> 2445, published by the (now-concluded) <a
+href="http://ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/calsch-charter.html"><abbr
 title="Internet Engineering Task Force">IETF</abbr>
 Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (<abbr
 title="Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group">calsch</abbr>)</a>
 covers time zone
 data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.
-The <a href="http://www.calconnect.org/">Calendaring and Scheduling
+The <a href="http://calconnect.org/">Calendaring and Scheduling
 Consortium</a> is promoting further work in this area. <a
-href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar
+href="http://calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecommendationsv1.0.pdf">iCalendar
 TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and
 recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code>tz</code>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.calconnect.org/dstlinks.shtml">Extended Daylight
+<li><a href="http://calconnect.org/dstlinks.shtml">Extended Daylight
 Saving Time Links, Advisories and Changes</a> lists vendor material on recent
 daylight saving time changes.</li>
 <li><a
-href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf">Timezone
+href="http://calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf">Timezone
 Registry and Service Recommendations</a> discusses a
 strategy for defining and deploying a time zone
 registration process that would establish unique names for each
@@ -185,9 +188,9 @@ available under the <a
 href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html"><abbr>GNU</abbr>
 General Public License (<abbr
 title="General Public License">GPL</abbr>)</a>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tzical/">tziCal - tz
+<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tzical">tziCal - tz
 database conversion utility</a> is like Vzic, except for the <a
-href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/">.NET framework</a>.</li>
+href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework">.NET framework</a>.</li>
 <li><a
 href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/">DateTime::TimeZone</a>
 contains a script <code>parse_olson</code> that compiles
@@ -212,23 +215,23 @@ contains a class
 <code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles
 <code>tz</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://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/">PyTZ - Python Time
+<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz">PyTZ - Python Time
 Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into
-<a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>.
+<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 - Ruby Timezone Library</a>
 compiles <code>tz</code> source into
-<a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/">Ruby</a>.
+<a href="http://ruby-lang.org">Ruby</a>.
 It is freely available under the <abbr
 title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">MIT</abbr> license.</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.chronos-st.org/">Chronos Date/Time
-Library</a> is a <a href="http://smalltalk.org/">Smalltalk</a> class
+<li>The <a href="http://chronos-st.org/">Chronos Date/Time
+Library</a> is a <a href="http://smalltalk.org">Smalltalk</a> class
 library that compiles <code>tz</code> source into a <a
 href="http://date-time-zone.com/">time zone repository</a> whose format
 is either proprietary or an <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/"><abbr
 title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr></a>-encoded
 representation.</li>
-<li>Starting with version 8.5, <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl</a>
+<li>Starting with version 8.5, <a href="http://tcl.tk/">Tcl</a>
 contains a developer-oriented parser that compiles <samp>tz</samp>
 source into text files, along with a runtime that can read those
 files. Tcl is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style
@@ -246,7 +249,7 @@ This library is freely available under the
 <abbr>GNU</abbr> Lesser General Public License
 (<abbr title="Lesser General Public License">LGPL</abbr>)</a>,
 and is widely used in <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux systems.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a>
+<li><a href="http://bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a>
 is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
 It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li>
 <li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a
@@ -254,12 +257,12 @@ It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/">FoxClocks</a>
+<li><a href="http://stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/">FoxClocks</a>
 is an extension for <a
 href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Toolkit_API">Mozilla
 Toolkit</a> applications like <a
-href="http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/">Firefox</a>, <a
-href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>, and
+href="http://mozilla.com/firefox">Firefox</a>, <a
+href="http://mozilla.com/thunderbird">Thunderbird</a>, and
 <a
 href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/">Sunbird</a>.
 It displays multiple clocks in the application window, and has a mapping
@@ -270,7 +273,7 @@ href="http://users.skynet.be/Peter.Verthez/projects/intclock/">International
 clock (intclock)</a> is a multi-timezone clock for
 <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux and similar systems. It is freely available
 under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/publicdomain">PublicDomain</a>
+<li><a href="http://codeplex.com/publicdomain">PublicDomain</a>
 has a copy of a recent <code>tz</code> database, accessed via a <a
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp">C#</a> library. As its
 name suggests, it is in the public domain. Only current time stamps
@@ -283,12 +286,12 @@ Java-specific format.</li>
 a <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a> plugin. It is freely
 available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
 <li><a
-href="http://www.veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is
+href="http://veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is
 a Mac OS X program. Its developers
-<a href="http://www.veladg.com/tzoffer.html">offer free
+<a href="http://veladg.com/tzoffer.html">offer free
 licenses</a> to <code>tz</code> contributors.</li>
 <li><a
-href="http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html">World Time Explorer</a> is a
+href="http://worldtimeexplorer.com/">World Time Explorer</a> is a
 Microsoft Windows program.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
@@ -307,15 +310,15 @@ href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Communications Services</a>.</li>
 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://www.worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</a>
+<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>
 contains data from the Time Service Department of the
 <abbr>US</abbr> Naval Observatory, used as the source
 for the <code>usno*</code> files in the <code>tz</code> distribution.</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.iata.org/ps/publications/9179.htm">Standard
+<li>The <a href="http://iata.org/ps/publications/SSIM.htm">Standard
 Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
-<a href="http://www.iata.org/index.htm">International Air Transport
+<a href="http://iata.org/index.htm">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
@@ -350,11 +353,11 @@ but the maps are more up to date.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>Time zone boundaries</h2>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.efele.net/maps/">A map of the TZ timezones in
+<li><a href="http://efele.net/maps/">A map of the TZ timezones in
 the US</a> contains a <a
 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile">shapefile</a> of the
 <code>tz</code> regions in the US.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions
+<li><a href="http://statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions
 of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains detailed lists of
 <code>tz</code>-related zone subdivision data.</li>
 <li><a href="http://home.tiscali.nl/~t876506/Multizones.html">Time
@@ -391,9 +394,9 @@ surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li>
 <li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/">About Daylight
 Saving Time - History, rationale, laws &amp; dates</a>
 is an overall history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Saving Time,
+<li><a href="http://energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Saving Time,
 Saving Energy</a> discusses a primary justification for <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.seizethedaylight.com/dst/">Who Knew? A Brief
+<li><a href="http://seizethedaylight.com/dst/">Who Knew? A Brief
 History of Daylight Saving Time</a> summarizes some of the contentious
 history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
 <li><a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/">The
@@ -404,7 +407,7 @@ The time zone map is out of date, however.</li>
 <li><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm">A History of
 the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most important
 time zone boundary.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.statoids.com/tconcept.html">Basic Time
+<li><a href="http://statoids.com/tconcept.html">Basic Time
 Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time zones.</li>
 </ul>
 <h2>National histories of legal time</h2>
@@ -428,9 +431,7 @@ Portuguese)</a>.</dd>
 <dd>The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes current
 and some older information about <a
 href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/daylight_saving_e.html">Time
-Zones &amp; Daylight Saving Time</a>.
-<a href="http://www3.sympatico.ca/c.walton/canada_dst.html">Canadian
-Daylight Saving Regulations</a> summarizes changes for 2007.</dd>
+Zones &amp; Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd>
 <dt>Chile</dt>
 <dd>The Chilean Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service publishes a <a
 href="http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm" hreflang="es"> 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</a>.</dd>
 <dt>Israel</dt>
 <dd>The Interior Ministry periodically issues <a
-href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/"
+href="ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements"
 hreflang="he">announcements (in Hebrew)</a>.</dd>
 <dt>Mexico</dt>
 <dd>The Investigation and Analysis Service of the Mexican Library of
@@ -456,9 +457,9 @@ hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a>
 covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd>
 <dt>New Zealand</dt>
 <dd>The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief history <a
-href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Information-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">About
+href="http://dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Information-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">About
 Daylight Saving</a>. The privately-maintained <a
-href="http://www.astrologyschool.com/nztime.html">History of New Zealand
+href="http://astrologyschool.com/nztime.html">History of New Zealand
 time</a> has more details.</dd>
 <dt>Norway</dt>
 <dd>The Norwegian Meteorological Institute lists
@@ -491,8 +492,9 @@ Time Protocol</a>
 discusses how to synchronize clocks of
 Internet hosts.</li>
 <li><a
-href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4833.txt">A
-Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a>
+href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4833.txt">Timezone
+Options for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a>
+(Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 4833)
 specifies a <a
 href="http://www.dhcp.org/">DHCP</a> option for a server to configure
 a client's time zone and daylight saving settings automatically.</li>
@@ -510,7 +512,7 @@ Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like
 <abbr title="Barycentric Dynamic Time">TDB</abbr>.
 <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html">Time
 Scales</a> goes into more detail, particularly for historical variants.</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org/"><abbr
+<li>The <a href="http://iau.org/"><abbr
 title="International Astronomical Union">IAU</abbr></a>'s <a
 href="http://www.iau-sofa.rl.ac.uk/"><abbr
 title="Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy">SOFA</abbr></a>
@@ -519,7 +521,7 @@ code for converting among time scales like
 <abbr title="International Atomic Time">TAI</abbr>,
 <abbr>TDB</abbr>, <abbr>TDT</abbr> and
 <abbr>UTC</abbr>.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.htm">Basics of
+<li><a href="http://jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.htm">Basics of
 Space Flight - Reference Systems - Time Conventions</a>
 briefly explains interplanetary space flight timekeeping.</li>
 <li><a
@@ -529,7 +531,7 @@ describes Mars Coordinated Time (<abbr
 title="Mars Coordinated Time">MTC</abbr>) and the
 diverse local time
 scales used by each landed mission on Mars.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.leapsecond.com/">LeapSecond.com</a> is
+<li><a href="http://leapsecond.com/">LeapSecond.com</a> 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.</li>
@@ -543,15 +545,14 @@ the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the
 International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides
 when leap seconds occur.</li>
 <li>The <a
-href="http://www.mail-archive.com/leapsecs@rom.usno.navy.mil/">Leap
-Second Discussion List</a> and <a
-href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">archive</a> covers <a
+href="http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs">Leap
+Second Discussion List</a> covers <a
 href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy
 and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>,
 discussed further in
 <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The
 leap second: its history and possible future</a>.
-The <a href="http://www.aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html"><abbr
+The <a href="http://aas.org/policy/LeapSecondCommittee.html"><abbr
 title="American Astronomical Society">AAS</abbr> Leap Second
 Committee</a> has solicited input on this proposal.
 <a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/">The
@@ -574,14 +575,15 @@ interchange -- Representation of dates and times</a>.</li>
 Schema: Datatypes - dateTime</a> specifies a format inspired by
 <abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601 that is in common use in XML data.</li>
 <li>
-<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet <abbr
-title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 2822</a> &sect;3.3
+<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet
+Message Format</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 2822) &sect;3.3
 specifies the time notation used in email and <a
 href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt"><abbr>HTTP</abbr></a>
 headers.</li>
 <li>
-<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt">Internet
-<abbr>RFC</abbr> 3339</a> specifies an <abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601
+<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt">Date and Time
+on the Internet: Timestamps</a> (Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 3339)
+specifies an <abbr>ISO</abbr> 8601
 profile for use in new Internet
 protocols.</li>
 <li>
@@ -589,7 +591,7 @@ protocols.</li>
 Formats on the Web</a> surveys web- and Internet-oriented date and time
 formats.</li>
 <li>
-<a href="http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The
+<a href="http://exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The
 Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered
 by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li>
 <li>The <a
@@ -599,7 +601,7 @@ abbreviations, identifiers, and formats. For example, it contains
 French translations for "Eastern European Summer Time", "<abbr
 title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>", and
 "Bucharest". <a
-href="http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.html">By-Type
+href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/charts/by_type/names.metazone.html">By-Type
 Chart: names.metazone</a> shows these values for many locales.
 <abbr>ICU</abbr> contains a mechanism for using this data.</li>
 <li>Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique
@@ -632,11 +634,11 @@ is called "<abbr>GMT</abbr>".</li>
 <h2>Related indexes</h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
+<li><a href="http://www.dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
 Reference: Time</a></li>
 <li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google Directory
 - Reference &gt; Time</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/">Yahoo!
+<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time">Yahoo!
 Directory &gt; Science &gt; Measurements and Units &gt; Time</a></li>
 </ul>
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