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* tz-link.htm: Consolidate and tighten up Windows description.

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* NEWS: Mention Windows-related doc changes.
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Asia/Dakha ended DST on 2009-12-31 at 24:00, not 23:59.
Changes affecting documentation and commentary
tz-link.htm describes Windows Runtime etc. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.)
Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700

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<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="UTF-8"'>
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul">
<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-08-05">
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2014-08-11">
<meta name="DC.Description"
content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
<meta name="DC.Identifier"
@ -232,16 +232,6 @@ and group scheduling systems, and has a <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone
data</a> converted from <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>. An earlier <a
href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out.</li>
<li>Starting with Windows 8.1, Microsoft includes <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
and <abbr>CLDR</abbr> data in <abbr>XML</abbr> formatted files,
found under <code>%WINDIR%\Globalization\Time Zone</code>. This data is not
currently used by the Windows operating system itself. However, it
is used to support the use of <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> identifiers in the
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.calendar.aspx"><code>Calendar</code></a>
and <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.datetimeformatting.datetimeformatter.aspx"><code>DateTimeFormatter</code></a>
classes of the Windows Runtime. This enables <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
zones to be used in Windows Store applications and Windows Phone applications
that target the Windows Runtime.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> compilers</h2>
<ul>
@ -390,6 +380,24 @@ href="http://users.skynet.be/Peter.Verthez/projects/intclock/">International
clock (intclock)</a> is a clock that displays multiple time zones on
<abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux and similar systems. It is freely available
under the <abbr>GPL</abbr>.</li>
<li><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/">Microsoft Windows</a> 8.1
and later has <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data and <abbr>CLDR</abbr>
data (mentioned below) used by
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Runtime">Windows Runtime</a>
classes such as <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.datetimeformatting.datetimeformatter.aspx"><code>DateTimeFormatter</code></a>.
<a
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/06/07/exploring-windows-time-zones-with-system-timezoneinfo-josh-free.aspx">Exploring
Windows Time Zones with <code>System.TimeZoneInfo</code></a> describes
the older, proprietary method of Microsoft Windows 2000 and later,
which stores time zone data in the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry">Windows Registry</a>. The
<a
href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/supplemental/zone_tzid.html">Zone &rarr;
Tzid table</a> or <a
href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml"><abbr>XML</abbr>
file</a> of the <abbr>CLDR</abbr> data maps proprietary zone IDs
to <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> names.
<li><a
href="http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/overview/index.html">Oracle
Java</a> contains a copy of a subset of a recent
@ -430,25 +438,6 @@ Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
<a href="http://iata.org/">International Air Transport
Association</a>
gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.</li>
<li>Since Windows 2000, Microsoft has provided its own time zone data for
Windows, which is stored in the Windows registry. Beginning with Windows
Vista, it was expanded to provide a limited history for some of the zones.
It is updated periodically by Windows Update, and via hotfixes posted on the
<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst">Microsoft DST support web
site</a>. The format for this data is documented with the <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725481.aspx"><code>TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION</code></a>
and <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724253.aspx"><code>DYNAMIC_TIME_ZONE_INFORMTION</code></a>
structures of the Win32 API. The data is also exposed by the <a
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.timezoneinfo.aspx"><code>TimeZoneInfo</code></a>
class of the .NET Framework. A detailed description of the time zone data
is provided in <a
href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/archive/2007/06/07/exploring-windows-time-zones-with-system-timezoneinfo-josh-free.aspx">this
MSDN article</a>. The identifiers of these Windows time zones can be
mapped back to <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> values using the
<a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/charts/supplemental/zone_tzid.html">Zone &rarr; Tzid table</a>,
or <a href="http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml"><abbr>XML</abbr>
file</a> from the <abbr>CLDR</abbr> data mentioned below.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Maps</h2>
<ul>