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@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Stewart calls the "20-line hack no one will let me forget".
is a fancier web interface.
<LI><A HREF="http://timezoneconverter.com/">Time Zone Converter</A>
is an even fancier interface.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.burbs.com/fcgi-bin/tzconvert.fcgi">Burbs time
zone converter</A> is a multilingual interface.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.tick2tock.com/cgi-bin/TZConverter">Tick2Tock
time zone converter</A> is a multilingual interface.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.holidayfestival.com/">The Worldwide Holiday
&amp; Festival Site</A> lists DST-related clock changes along with holidays.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock</A>
@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT4 program.
</UL>
<H2>Other time zone databases</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.astro.ch/atlas/">Astrology / Astrologie -&gt;
Astrodienst Atlas Database</A> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
<LI><A HREF="http://www.astro.ch/atlas/">Astrodienst Online -
Atlas &amp; Timezone Database</A> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
excellent time zone history atlases published in both <A
HREF="http://astrocom.com/software/ACS_PC_Atlas.htm">computer</A> and <A
HREF="http://astrocom.com/books/xrefa.htm#SHANKS">book</A> form by <A
@ -107,9 +107,14 @@ time info, public holidays</A>
contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset,
and public holidays in several hundred cities around the world.
<LI><A HREF="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</A>
contains US Naval Observatory data, used as the source
contains data from the Time Service Department of the US Naval Observatory
(USNO), used as the source
for the <samp>usno*</samp> files in the <samp>tz</samp> distribution.
<LI>The <A HREF="http://iata.org/">International Air Transport Association</A>
<LI>The USNO Astronomical Applications Department publishes answers to
<A HREF="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/faq/">Frequently Asked Questions</A>
about time zones and daylight saving time.
<LI>The <A HREF="http://www.iata.org/">International
Air Transport Association</A>
publishes the IATA Standard Schedules Information Manual (SSIM),
which gives current time zone rules for
all the airports served by commercial aviation.
@ -117,7 +122,7 @@ all the airports served by commercial aviation.
<H2>Maps</H2>
<UL>
<LI>The United States Central Intelligence Agency publishes a <A
HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/figures/802649.pdf">time
HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference/Low%20res%20PDF/low802700.pdf">time
zone map</A>; the
<A HREF="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/world_maps.html">
Perry-Casta&ntilde;eda Library Map Collection</A>
@ -126,16 +131,19 @@ recent editions.
The pictorial quality is good,
but the maps do not indicate summer time,
and parts of the data are a few years out of date.
<LI><A HREF="http://worldtimezone.com/">World time zones map with
<LI><A HREF="http://worldtimezone.com/">World timezones map with
current time</A>
has several fancy time zone maps; it covers Russia particularly well.
The maps' pictorial quality is not quite as good as the CIA's
and (as usual with maps) the maps are not quite up to date.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/">World Time Server</A>
has a separate little outline map for each region of each country that
currently observes a different time.
</UL>
<H2>Daylight saving time concepts and history</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://webexhibits.com/daylightsaving/">Daylight
Saving Time -- History, rationale, laws and dates</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://webexhibits.com/daylightsaving/">About Daylight
Saving Time - History, rationale, laws and dates</A>
is a good overall history of DST.
<LI><A HREF="http://www.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/toi.html">The
Time of Internet</A>
@ -190,11 +198,14 @@ when leap seconds occur.
<LI>The <A
HREF="http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">Leap
Second Discussion List</A> covers <A
HREF="http://www.gisdevelopment.net/reference/scie/s_t_41_50.htm#47">McCarthy
HREF="http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A3=ind0007&L=leapsecs&P=26737&E=2&B=------_=_NextPart_000_01BFEAA4.2B254664&N=GPS-Nov99_Innov.pdf&T=application/octet-stream">McCarthy
and Klepczynski's proposal to remove leap seconds</A>, currently
being studied by a <A
HREF="http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/Research/Projects/ursi/Commissions.html">URSI
Commission J</A> working group.
Commission J</A> working group, and the <A HREF="http://www.iau.org/">IAU</A>
has <A
HREF="http://clockdev.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0009&L=leapsecs&F=lf&S=&P=2658">plans</A>
to report on this proposal by 2003.
</UL>
<H2>Time notation</H2>
<UL>