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[src/trunk]: src/lib/libc/time Import tzcode2003d.
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/14caaec67d1f
branches: trunk
changeset: 554549:14caaec67d1f
user: kleink <kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Wed Oct 29 20:19:13 2003 +0000
description:
Import tzcode2003d.
diffstat:
lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm | 36 ++++++-
lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm | 204 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
2 files changed, 152 insertions(+), 88 deletions(-)
diffs (truncated from 455 to 300 lines):
diff -r a28fa66100f9 -r 14caaec67d1f lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm Wed Oct 29 20:03:51 2003 +0000
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-art.htm Wed Oct 29 20:19:13 2003 +0000
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
<body>
<h1>Time and the Arts</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-art.htm 7.48
+@(#)tz-art.htm 7.53
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -205,7 +205,17 @@
</li>
<li>
Surrealist artist Guy Billout's work "Date Line" appeared on page 103
-of the November, 1999 Atlantic Monthly.
+of the 1999-11 Atlantic Monthly.
+</li>
+<li>
+"Gloom, Gloom, Go Away" by Walter Kirn appeared on page 106 of Time
+Magazine's 2002-11-11 issue; among other things, it proposed
+year-round DST as a way of lessening wintertime despair.
+</li>
+<li>
+The "20 Hours in America" episode of "The West Wing," first aired 2002-09-25,
+saw White House staffers stranded in Indiana; they thought they had time to
+catch Air Force One but were done in by intra-Indiana local time changes.
</li>
<li>
"In what time zone would you find New York City?" was a $200 question on
@@ -213,7 +223,7 @@
"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 />
@@ -243,10 +253,26 @@
(Garry Shandling, 52nd Annual Emmys, 2000-09-10)
</li>
<li>
-"Is that a pertinent fact, or are you trying to dazzle me with your command
-of time zones?"
+"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>
+"I thought you said Tulsa was a three hour flight."
+"Well, you're forgetting about the time difference."
+("Chandler" and "Joey" in dialog from the episode of "Friends" first
+aired 2002-12-05)
+</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")
</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)
+</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
diff -r a28fa66100f9 -r 14caaec67d1f lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
--- a/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm Wed Oct 29 20:03:51 2003 +0000
+++ b/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm Wed Oct 29 20:19:13 2003 +0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
<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="2001-05-30" />
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2003-09-21" />
<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"; />
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
<body>
<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1>
<address>
-@(#)tz-link.htm 7.34
+@(#)tz-link.htm 7.39
</address>
<p>
Please send corrections to this web page to the
@@ -35,16 +35,20 @@
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.cygwin.com/";>Cygwin</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.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.tru64unix.compaq.com/";>Tru64</a>.</p>
+<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://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/";>Solaris</a>,
+<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/";>Tru64</a>, and
+<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/";>UnixWare</a>.</p>
<p>
Each location in the database represents a national region where all
clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970.
@@ -96,10 +100,6 @@
<li><a href="http://www.bsdi.com/date/";>Date and Time Gateway</a> is a
text-based point-and-click interface to tables of current time
throughout the world.</li>
-<li><a href="http://sandbox.xerox.com/stewart/tzconvert.cgi";>Timezone
-Converter</a> is a similar interface, with source code
-written in <a href="http://www.perl.org/";>Perl</a>, using what Paul
-Stewart calls the "20-line hack no one will let me forget".</li>
<li>Fancier web interfaces, roughly in ascending order of complexity, include:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hilink.com.au/times/";>Local Times Around the
@@ -107,34 +107,42 @@
<li><a href="http://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP";>Current Time in 1000 Places</a></li>
<li><a href="http://timezoneconverter.com/";>Time Zone Converter</a></li>
</ul></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.tick2tock.com/cgi-bin/TZConverter";>Tick2Tock
-time zone converter</a> is a multilingual interface.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.holidayfestival.com/";>The Worldwide Holiday
& Festival Site</a> lists DST-related clock changes along with
holidays.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/";>The World Clock</a>
+<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/";>The World Clock -
+Time Zones</a>
is a web interface to a time zone database derived from
<code>tz</code>'s.</li>
</ul>
+<h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt";>
+Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
+(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the <a
+href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html";>IETF
+Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (calsch)</a> covers time zone
+data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.</li>
+<li>The <a
+href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/";><samp>www-rdf-calendar</samp></a>
+list discusses <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/";>RDF</a>-based calendar
+and group scheduling systems, and has a <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd";>workspace on time zone
+data</a> converted from <code>tz</code>. An earlier <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo";>schema</a> was sketched out by <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/";>Tim Berners-Lee</a>.</li>
+<li><a
+href="http://www.calsch.org/ietf/archives/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-02.txt";>XCal</a>
+was a draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/";>XML</a> document type
+definition that corresponded to iCalendar.</li>
+</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2>
<ul>
<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>
-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
+compiles <code>tz</code> source into iCalendar format. Vzic is freely
available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html";>GNU
General Public License (GPL)</a>.</li>
-<li>Possible XML schemata for the <code>tz</code> data include <a
-href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo";>one</a> sketched out by <a
-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>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2>
<ul>
@@ -148,6 +156,10 @@
<li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ";>ZoneInfo.java</a>
is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li>
+<li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html";>Python time zones</a>
+is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in <a
+href="http://www.python.org/";>Python</a>. It is freely available
+under a BSD-style license.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2>
<ul>
@@ -155,16 +167,16 @@
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/";>World Time Explorer</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
-- Atlas Query</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
+<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e";>Atlas Query
+- Astrodienst</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/books/xrefa.htm#SHANKS";>book</a> form by <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,
time info, public holidays</a>
@@ -179,8 +191,8 @@
<li><a href="http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/";>Airlines, Airplanes
and Airports</a> lists current standard times for thousands of
airports around the world. This seems to be derived from
-the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/ssim.htm";>Standard
-Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
+the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/publications/";>Standard
+Schedules Information Manual (SSIM)</a> of the
the <a href="http://www.iata.org/";>International Air Transport
Association</a>,
which gives current time zone rules for
@@ -190,7 +202,7 @@
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://www.odci.gov/";>United States Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA)</a> publishes a <a
-href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ref/pdf/802801.pdf";>time
+href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/time_zones.pdf";>time
zone map</a>; the
<a
href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html";>Perry-Castañeda
@@ -200,9 +212,11 @@
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>
-<li><a href="http://wwg.lgg.ru/russia/timezone.html";
-hreflang="ru">Map of Russian Federation time zones (in Russian)</a>
-has a wealth of information about Russian time zones.</li>
+<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
+but the maps are more up to date.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Time zone boundaries</h2>
<ul>
@@ -215,33 +229,39 @@
<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>
+<h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://webexhibits.com/daylightsaving/";>About Daylight
+<li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time";>A Walk through Time</a>
+surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li>
+<li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/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>
-contains good descriptions of Time Zones and daylight saving time,
+describes time zones and daylight saving time,
with diagrams.
The time zone map is out of date, however.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm";>A History of
the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most important
time zone boundary.</li>
-<li>A few countries have well-documented histories of legal time.
+<li><a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/tconcept.html";>Basic Time
+Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time zones.</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>National histories of legal time</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Australia</dt>
-<dd><a
-href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html#more";>Australia's
-Daylight Saving Times</a> contains pointers to government records and to
-histories of daylight saving.</dd>
+<dd>The Community Relations Division of the New South Wales (NSW)
+Attorney General's Department maintains a <a
+href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2";>history of
+daylight saving in NSW</a>.</dd>
+<dt>Austria</dt>
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