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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-01-07 17:37:38 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-01-07 17:37:38 +0000
commit90ee8a2b81ccb361eff855efb1053ceb94f34828 (patch)
tree149c86f650bf7c18ed20494c82314f90e82da308 /lib/libc
parent4212234d852d63582aab70f49b16c2bfec6dcf9b (diff)
Updated from tzcode2002d (ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm11
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm59
2 files changed, 39 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
index 008b2dda864..3d4a4563f0f 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.4 2002/04/04 19:12:09 millert Exp $ -->
+<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-art.htm,v 1.5 2003/01/07 17:37:37 millert Exp $ -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="US-ASCII"' />
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
<body>
<h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-art.htm 7.48
+@(#)tz-art.htm 7.49
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ the 1999-11-13 United States airing of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?"
"In 1883, what industry led the movement to divide the U.S. into four time
zones?" was a $32,000 question on the 2001-05-23 United States airing of
"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" At this rate, the million-dollar time-zone
-question will be asked 2002-06-04.
+question should have been asked 2002-06-04.
</li>
</ul>
<hr />
@@ -244,6 +244,11 @@ when you turn the clocks ahead."
(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
</li>
<li>
+"Would it impress you if I told you I invented Daylight Savings Time?"
+("Sahjhan" to Lilah" in dialog from the "Loyalty" episode of "Angel,"
+originally aired 2002-02-25)
+</li>
+<li>
"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command
of time zones?"
(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm b/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
index 9fe4edbae33..79869ff5ffa 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
-<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-link.htm,v 1.4 2002/04/04 19:12:09 millert Exp $ -->
+<!-- $OpenBSD: tz-link.htm,v 1.5 2003/01/07 17:37:37 millert Exp $ -->
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</title>
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<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="2002-03-26" />
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2002-10-10" />
<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" />
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<body>
<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-link.htm 7.35
+@(#)tz-link.htm 7.37
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -36,15 +36,16 @@ to UTC offsets and daylight-saving rules.
This database (often called <code>tz</code> or <code>zoneinfo</code>)
is used by several implementations,
including
+<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">the GNU C Library</a> used in
<a href="http://www.linux.org/">GNU/Linux</a>,
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/">DJGPP</a>,
-<a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/index.html">HP-UX</a>,
+<a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/">HP-UX</a>,
<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix.html">IRIX</a>,
-<a href="http://www.caldera.com/products/openunix/">Open UNIX</a>,
-<a href="http://www.sun.com/solaris/">Solaris</a>, and
+<a href="http://www.caldera.com/products/openunix/">Open UNIX/UnixWare</a>,
+<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>, and
<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>.</p>
<p>
Each location in the database represents a national region where all
@@ -120,7 +121,7 @@ is a web interface to a time zone database derived from
<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~damon/icalendar/">Olson ->
VTIMEZONE Converter</a> describes a program Vzic that
compiles <code>tz</code> source into VTIMEZONE text as specified by
-the <a href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">iCalendar</a>
+the <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">iCalendar</a>
specification published by the <a
href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF
Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group</a>. Vzic is freely
@@ -132,8 +133,8 @@ href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and
<a
href="http://developer.iplanet.com/docs/wpapers/calendar/ietf.txt">another</a>
used by the <a
-href="http://www.iplanet.com/products/iplanet_calendar/">iPlanet
-Calendar Server</a>.</li>
+href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/home_calendar.html">Sun
+ONE Calendar Server</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2>
<ul>
@@ -154,15 +155,15 @@ It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li>
href="http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html">HyperCard
time zones calculator</a> is a HyperCard stack.</li>
<li><a
-href="http://www20.Brinkster.com/timezone50/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a
+href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a
Microsoft Windows program.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.astro.ch/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Astrodienst
+<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Astrodienst
- Atlas Query</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a
-href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.html">computer</a> and <a
+href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.php">computer</a> and <a
href="http://astrocom.com/books/xrefa.php#SHANKS">book</a> form by <a
href="http://astrocom.com/">Astro Communications Services</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://worldtime.com/">WORLDTIME: interactive atlas,
@@ -216,18 +217,17 @@ Time Zones</a> publishes the same data in other formats.</li>
<li>The US Geological Survey's National Atlas of the United States
publishes the <a href="http://www.nationalatlas.gov/timeznm.html">Time
Zones of the United States</a> in the public domain.</li>
-<li>The National Weather Service publishes <a
-href="http://isl715.nws.noaa.gov/mapdata/newcat/county/county_all.htm">outlines
-of US counties and their time zones</a> in the public domain.</li>
<li>The GeoCommunity lists several commercial sources for <a
href="http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/timezones/">International
Time Zones and Time Zone Data</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Daylight saving time concepts and history</h2>
<ul>
+<li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time">A Walk through Time</a>
+surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li>
<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>
+is an overall history of DST.</li>
<li><a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/">The
Time of Internet</a>
describes time zones and daylight saving time,
@@ -277,10 +277,10 @@ covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd>
<dt>United Kingdom</dt>
<dd><a
href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">History of
-legal time in Britain</a> is an excellent discussion for the country
+legal time in Britain</a> discusses in detail the country
with perhaps the best-documented history of clock adjustments.
The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a
-href="http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/ctm/summer_time_archive.html">archive
+href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/summer_time_archive.html">archive
of summer time dates</a>.</dd>
</dl></li>
</ul>
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ of summer time dates</a>.</dd>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://literature.agilent.com/litwebbin/purl.cgi?org_id=tmo&amp;pub_id=5965-7984E">The
-Science of Timekeeping</a> is an excellent and thorough introduction
+Science of Timekeeping</a> is a thorough introduction
to the theory and practice of precision timekeeping.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ntp.org/">Time Synchronization Server</a> discusses
the Network Time Protocol (NTP), used to synchronize clocks of
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ charset="macintosh">A
Few Facts Concerning GMT, UT, and the RGO</a>
answers questions like "What is the difference between GMT and UTC?"</li>
<li><a
-href="http://sadira.gb.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html">Astronomical
+href="http://www.gb.nrao.edu/~rfisher/Ephemerides/times.html">Astronomical
Times</a> explains more abstruse astronomical time scales like TT, TCG,
and TDB.</li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.iau.org/">IAU</a>'s <a
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ the Earth Orientation Parameters Product Center of the
International Earth Rotation Service, the committee that decides
when leap seconds occur.</li>
<li>The <a
-href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/wa">Leap
+href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">Leap
Second Discussion List</a> covers <a
href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0BPW/11_10/57821998/p1/article.jhtml">McCarthy
and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>.
@@ -332,17 +332,20 @@ the International Standard Date and Time Notation</a> is a good
summary of ISO
8601:1988 - Data elements and interchange formats - Information interchange
- Representation of dates and times (which has been superseded by
-<a href="http://www.iso.ch/cate/d26780.html">ISO 8601:2000</a>).</li>
+<a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=26780">ISO 8601:2000</a>).</li>
<li>
Section 3.3 of <a
-href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet RFC 2822</a>
+href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2822.txt">Internet RFC 2822</a>
specifies the time notation used in email and <a
-href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt">HTTP</a> headers.</li>
+href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2616.txt">HTTP</a> headers.</li>
<li>
-<a
-href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-impp-datetime-05.txt">Date
-and Time on the Internet: Timestamps</a> proposes an ISO 8601 profile
-for use in new Internet protocols.</li>
+<a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3339.txt">Internet RFC
+3339</a> specifies an ISO 8601 profile for use in new Internet
+protocols.</li>
+<li>
+<a href="http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html">The
+Best of Dates, the Worst of Dates</a> covers many problems encountered
+by software developers when handling dates and time stamps.</li>
<li>
Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique
identifiers for UTC offsets as they are ambiguous in practice. For