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authorDavid Leonard <d@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-01-29 07:04:06 +0000
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<H1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</H1>
<P>
-<small>
-@(#)WWW.htm 7.11
-$OpenBSD: WWW.htm,v 1.1 1998/01/18 23:24:49 millert Exp $
-</small>
-</P>
+<H6>
+@(#)WWW.htm 7.16
+$OpenBSD: WWW.htm,v 1.2 1999/01/29 07:04:05 d Exp $
+</H6>
<H2>Paul Eggert writes:</H2><P>
The public-domain tz database contains code and data
that represent the history of local time
@@ -50,33 +49,32 @@ 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 US Central Intelligence agency publishes a static
-Standard Time Zones of the World map in multiple resolutions.
-including
-<A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/rmap-gif/802483.gif">75
-kB</A>,
-<A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/rmap-tif/802483.tif">1
-MB</A>, and
-<A HREF="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/rmap-pdf/802483.pdf">3
-MB</A> versions.
-The pictorial quality is good, but the map does not indicate summer time,
+<LI>The United States Central Intelligence agency publishes time zone maps;
+the
+<A HREF="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/world_maps.html">
+Perry-Casta&ntilde;eda Library Map Collection</A>
+of the University of Texas at Austin has on-line copies of
+the 1995 and 1997 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and parts of the data are a few years out of date.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://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/toi.html">The
Time of Internet</A>
contains good descriptions of Time Zones and daylight saving time,
with diagrams.
The time zone map is out of date, however.
-<LI><A HREF="http://community.bellcore.com/mbr/gmt-explained.html">A Few Facts
-Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO</A>
+<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/energy/daylightsaving.html">Daylight
+<LI><A HREF="http://www.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://www.yahoo.com/Science/Weights_and_Measures/Measurements/Time/Daylight_Saving_Time/">Yahoo! - Science:Weights and Measures:Measurements:Time:Daylight Saving Time</A>
+<LI><A HREF="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! - Science:Measurements and Units:Time:Time Zones</A>
is where the famous Internet indexing service Yahoo! collects its time zone
info.
<LI>The <A HREF="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport Association</A>
-publishes the IATA SSIM, which gives current time zone rules for
+publishes the IATA Standard Schedules Information Manual (SSIM),
+which gives current time zone rules for
all the airports served by commercial aviation.
<LI><A HREF="http://hpiers.obspm.fr/webiers/results/bul/README.html">Bulletins
of IERS</A> contains official publications of the
@@ -85,11 +83,11 @@ when leap seconds occur.
</UL>
<P>
-- <A HREF="mailto:eggert@twinsun.com">eggert@twinsun.com</A>
-(1997-12-26)
+(1998-09-22)
</P>
<H2>Arthur David Olson writes:</H2><P>
A good source of information about ISO 8601 seems to be
-<A HREF="http://www.ft.uni-erlangen.de/~mskuhn/iso-time.html">International
+<A HREF="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html">International
Standard Date and Time Notation</A>
maintained by Markus Kuhn.
<P>