>From 7a9c99068c505140fe03dfda0f3eeb2508e0d0cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 12:27:31 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] * northamerica: Fix salute commentary. --- northamerica | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index 9c70485..ddda4c6 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -492,15 +492,15 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # Alaska # AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO. # -# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-10): +# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-14): # Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, # and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. -# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday. Lovell Rousseau wrote that the ceremony -# took place at 15:30 precisely, marked by a salute fired from the man-of-war -# Ossipee; see 40th Congress, 2d session, Ex. Doc No. 125, p 4. -# Presumably 1867-10-18 is the Gregorian date of the ceremony. +# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the +# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of +# formal transfer. See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2. +# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1 # Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20, -# presumably to get another day off that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). +# presumably to get two Sundays off that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). # From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25. # http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf # Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch @@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or # time change. However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe # Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it. -# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Ossipee's +# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian # salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for # all of Alaska. Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the # local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously. -- 2.9.4