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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-08-22 16:32:31 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-08-22 16:32:31 +0000
commit6959ffb5992731a067a6754bcd9135d22da69f50 (patch)
treec367ac113b157acafc15ed28be9e91bd364e54b6 /lib
parent692400d89b891edff102e340aca684f717314c7c (diff)
Update to tzcode2007f grom elsie.nci.nih.gov; no actual code changes
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm9
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm36
2 files changed, 35 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
index 53ff94ec902..40b6e543935 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
<body>
<h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-art.htm 8.6
+@(#)tz-art.htm 8.8
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Richard Teitelbaum, modular moog and micromoog synthesizer</td></tr>
Grammy Awards. Co-written and performed by Chris Martin,
great-great-grandson of DST inventor William Willett. The song's first
line is "Lights go out and I can't be saved".</td></tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
<tr><td>Artist</td><td>Irving Kahal and Harry Richman</td></tr>
<tr><td>Song</td><td>There Ought to be a Moonlight Saving Time</td></tr>
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ or are you trying to dazzle me with your command of time zones?"
(Kelsey Grammer as "Frasier Crane")
</li>
<li>
+A private jet's mid-flight change of time zones distorts Alison Dubois'
+premonition in the "We Had a Dream" episoed of "Medium"
+(originally aired 2007-02-28).
+</li>
+<li>
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It is already tomorrow in Australia."
(Charles M. Schulz, provided by Steve Summit)
diff --git a/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm b/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
index ff3bc58ce2d..c0382ff4ee0 100644
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<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="2007-03-13">
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2007-08-17">
<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">
@@ -18,14 +18,15 @@
<body>
<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-link.htm 8.11
+@(#)tz-link.htm 8.12
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
<a href="mailto:tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov">time zone mailing list</a>.</p>
<h2>The <code>tz</code> database</h2>
<p>
-The public-domain time zone database contains code and data
+The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public-domain</a>
+time zone database contains code and data
that represent the history of local time
for many representative locations around the globe.
It is updated periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies
@@ -50,8 +51,6 @@ C Library</a> used in
<a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/"><abbr
title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/">AIX</a>,
-<a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/">HP-UX</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://www.oracle.com/database/index.html">Oracle Database</a>,
@@ -213,7 +212,8 @@ contains a class
<code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time
is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
<li><a href="http://mozware.free.fr/devtools/xmlDate/">xmlDate</a>
-contains <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/js/">JavaScript</a> code that
+contains <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">JavaScript</a> code that
parses <samp>tz</samp> source into an internal object that represents
a time zone. It is freely available under the GPL.</li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/">PyTZ - Python Time
@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ This library is freely available under the
(<abbr title="Lesser General Public License">LGPL</abbr>)</a>,
and is widely used in <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux systems.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a>
-is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
+is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_%28programming_language%29">Java</a>.
It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li>
<li>Tcl, mentioned above, also contains a
<code>tz</code> binary file reader.</li>
@@ -274,6 +275,12 @@ 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>
+<li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/publicdomain">PublicDomain</a>
+has a copy of a recent <code>tz</code> database, accessed via a <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp">C#</a> library. As its
+name suggests, it is in the public domain. Only current time stamps
+are well supported; historical data are compiled into the runtime but
+are not easily accessible.</li>
<li><a href="http://java.sun.com/">Sun Java</a> releases since 1.4
contain a copy of a subset of a recent <code>tz</code> database in a
Java-specific format.</li>
@@ -329,7 +336,7 @@ below.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.cia.gov/">United States Central
Intelligence Agency (<abbr
title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</abbr>)</a> publishes a <a
-href="https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time
+href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf">time
zone map</a>; the
<a
href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html">Perry-Casta&ntilde;eda
@@ -348,6 +355,10 @@ but the maps are more up to date.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Time zone boundaries</h2>
<ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.efele.net/maps/">A map of the TZ timezones in
+the US</a> contains a <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapefile">shapefile</a> of the
+<code>tz</code> regions in the US.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions
of Countries ("Statoids")</a> contains detailed lists of
<code>tz</code>-related zone subdivision data.</li>
@@ -367,6 +378,15 @@ Zones of the United States</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>
+<li>A ship within the <a
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters">territorial
+waters</a> of any nation uses that nation's time. In international
+waters, time zone boundaries are meridians 15&deg; apart, except that
+UTC&minus;12 and UTC+12 are each 7.5&deg; wide and are separated by
+the 180&deg; meridian (not by the International Date Line, which is
+for land and territorial waters only). A captain can change ship's
+clocks any time after entering a new time zone; midnight changes are
+common.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2>
<ul>