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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="2005-03-11" />
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2005-09-25" />
<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" />
@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/">IRIX</a>,
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a>,
<a href="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/">OpenVMS</a>,
<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>,
<a href="http://www.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>
<p>
@ -122,7 +122,6 @@ throughout the world.</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://time.world-stay.com/">The time around the world</a></li>
<li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
@ -180,7 +179,7 @@ available under both the <abbr>GPL</abbr> and the Perl Artistic
License. DateTime::TimeZone also contains a script
<code>tests_from_zdump</code> that generates test cases for each clock
transition in the <code>tz</code> database.</li>
<li><a href="http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu"><abbr
<li><a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/"><abbr
title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr></a>
contains a C/C++ library for internationalization that
has a compiler from <code>tz</code> source
@ -219,7 +218,8 @@ It is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone software</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/intclock">International
<li><a
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>
@ -258,10 +258,9 @@ contains data from the Time Service Department of the
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
Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
the <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport
Association</a>,
which gives current time zone rules for
all the airports served by commercial aviation.</li>
<a href="http://www.iata.org/index.htm">International Air Transport
Association</a>
gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Maps</h2>
<ul>
@ -315,6 +314,8 @@ 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,
Saving Energy</a> discusses a primary justification for <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.seizethedaylight.com/dst/">Who Knew? A Brief
History of Daylight Saving Time</a> summarizes some of the contentious
history of <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li>
@ -333,11 +334,7 @@ Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time zones.</li>
<dl>
<dt>Australia</dt>
<dd>The Bureau of Metrology publishes a list of
<a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia</a>.
The Community Relations Division of the New South Wales
Attorney General's Department maintains a history of <a
href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/Corporate/ll_corporate.nsf/pages/attorney_generals_department_daylight_saving">Daylight
Saving in New South Wales</a>.</dd>
<a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">Implementation Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia</a>.</dd>
<dt>Austria</dt>
<dd>The Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying publishes a
table of <a href="http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf"
@ -354,7 +351,7 @@ Portuguese)</a>.</dd>
<dt>Canada</dt>
<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_savings_e.html">Time
href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php">Time
Zones &amp; Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd>
<dt>Chile</dt>
<dd>WebExhibits publishes a <a
@ -408,7 +405,7 @@ of Summer time dates</a>.</dd>
<h2>Precision timekeeping</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://literature.agilent.com/litwebbin/purl.cgi?org_id=tmo&amp;pub_id=5965-7984E">The
href="http://literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5965-7984E.pdf">The
Science of Timekeeping</a> is a thorough introduction
to the theory and practice of precision timekeeping.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ntp.org/"><abbr
@ -462,13 +459,13 @@ Second Discussion List</a> and <a
href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">archive</a> covers <a
href="http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/gpsworld.november99.pdf">McCarthy
and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>, published in <a
href="http://www.gpsworld.com/"><abbr
href="http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld/"><abbr
title="Global Positioning System">GPS</abbr> World</a>
<strong>10</strong>, 11
(1999-11), 50&ndash;57 and discussed further in R. A. Nelson et al.,
<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/time/metrologia-leapsecond.pdf">The
leap second: its history and possible future</a>,
<a href="http://www.bipm.fr/metrologia/">Metrologia</a>
<a href="http://www.bipm.fr/metrologia/index.html">Metrologia</a>
<strong>38</strong> (2001), 509&ndash;529.
<a href="http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/onlinebib.html">The
Future of Leap Seconds</a> catalogs information about this
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Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered
by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li>
<li><a
href="http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu"><abbr>ICU</abbr></a>
href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/"><abbr>ICU</abbr></a>
contains a mechanism for localizing time zone
labels and abbreviations; for example, one can use it to specify
Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time",