From 63ce01cfa8a215fb58b1465b87444afabccaea0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 13:01:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * europe: Fix some broken British URLs. (Thanks to Lester Caine.) * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 3 +++ europe | 13 ++++++------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9155581..f1e741b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes tz-link.htm describes Windows Runtime etc. (Thanks to Matt Johnson.) + Some broken URLs have been fixed in the commentary. (Thanks to + Lester Caine.) + Release 2014f - 2014-08-05 17:42:36 -0700 diff --git a/europe b/europe index 001fb4d..5d229c2 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ # between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which # plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the # foundations of civilization throughout the world. -# -# "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly +# -- "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly; +# republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26 +# http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving" @@ -220,8 +221,8 @@ # official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't # but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British # Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally. -# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/bbc-19410418.png -# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png +# http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/bbc-19410418.png +# http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ho-19410421.png # From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21): # [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time @@ -238,15 +239,13 @@ # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. # Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in -# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ -# History of legal time in Britain # http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ # From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech -# http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0 +# http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo970611/text/70611-10.htm#70611-10_head0 # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976). # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -- 1.9.1