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| author | David Leonard <d@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-01 23:05:40 +0000 |
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| committer | David Leonard <d@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1999-07-01 23:05:40 +0000 |
| commit | 6724b22af027e12e8d676e6eb2917d490c0d369a (patch) | |
| tree | c0e2d8d6e18e27675d89f0c0fa7b03d68f1c3c13 /lib/libc/time/WWW.htm | |
| parent | 011763372a00527c9c7006b783797df0cc724715 (diff) | |
tzcode1999d from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/; ok millert@
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/time/WWW.htm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/time/WWW.htm | 30 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/WWW.htm b/lib/libc/time/WWW.htm index eadcce6567e..30bddb8afab 100644 --- a/lib/libc/time/WWW.htm +++ b/lib/libc/time/WWW.htm @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> +<!-- $OpenBSD: WWW.htm,v 1.3 1999/07/01 23:05:39 d Exp $ --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</TITLE> @@ -7,8 +8,7 @@ <H1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</H1> <P> <H6> -@(#)WWW.htm 7.16 -$OpenBSD: WWW.htm,v 1.2 1999/01/29 07:04:05 d Exp $ +@(#)WWW.htm 7.18 </H6> <H2>Paul Eggert writes:</H2><P> The public-domain tz database contains code and data @@ -26,19 +26,19 @@ where <samp><var>C</var></samp> is the code's version; similarly, the data are in <samp>tzdata<var>D</var>.tar.gz</samp>, where <samp><var>D</var></samp> is the data's version. <P> -The <A HREF="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/GETTING.GNU.SOFTWARE">GNU C Library</A> +The <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU C Library</A> has an independent, thread-safe implementation of -a time zone file reader. +a time zone file reader that is compatible with <samp>zoneinfo</samp>. This library is freely available under the GNU Library General Public License, and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems. <P> The Web has several other sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Here are some recent links that may be of interest. <UL> -<LI><A HREF="http://www.bsdi.com/date">Date and Time Gateway</A> +<LI><A HREF="http://www.bsdi.com/date/">Date and Time Gateway</A> is a text-based source for tables of current time throughout the world. Its point-and-click interface accesses a recent version of the tz data. -<LI><A HREF="http://www.worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive atlas, +<LI><A HREF="http://worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive atlas, time info, public holidays</A> contains information on local time, sunrise and sunset, and public holidays in several hundred cities around the world. @@ -49,15 +49,20 @@ the live data provide a nice way to check one's tables. <LI><A HREF="http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html">World Time Zones</A> contains US Naval Observatory data, used as the source for the <samp>usno*</samp> files. -<LI>The United States Central Intelligence agency publishes time zone maps; -the +<LI>The United States Central Intelligence Agency publishes a +<A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/figures/802597.jpg">time +zone map</A>; the <A HREF="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/world_maps.html"> Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection</A> of the University of Texas at Austin has on-line copies of -the 1995 and 1997 editions. +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/"><SAMP>Worldtimezone.com</SAMP></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://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/toi.html">The Time of Internet</A> contains good descriptions of Time Zones and daylight saving time, @@ -66,7 +71,7 @@ The time zone map is out of date, however. <LI><A HREF="http://ecco.bsee.swin.edu.au/chronos/GMT-explained.html">A Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO</A> answers questions like ``What is the difference between GMT and UTC?'' -<LI><A HREF="http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Daylight +<LI><A HREF="http://energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html">Daylight Saving Time -- Saving Time, Saving Energy</A> is a history of DST in the US. <LI><A HREF="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! - Science:Measurements and Units:Time:Time Zones</A> @@ -83,10 +88,11 @@ when leap seconds occur. </UL> <P> -- <A HREF="mailto:eggert@twinsun.com">eggert@twinsun.com</A> -(1998-09-22) +(1999-03-22) </P> <H2>Arthur David Olson writes:</H2><P> -A good source of information about ISO 8601 seems to be +A good source of information about +<A HREF="http://www.iso.ch/markete/moreend.htm">ISO 8601</A> seems to be <A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">International Standard Date and Time Notation</A> maintained by Markus Kuhn. |