To Ms. Walters, When I tried the link a few minutes ago, it was working. However, we're always glad to check out any potential errors. To the SIPB NetBST dev team: The page cited in the subject line seems to be under your control. This page is an outdated version of Paul Eggert's definitive page describing the Olson tz database, which is at http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm. Your page is version 7.42; his page is currently version 8.15. My link checker found eleven dead links on your page, and only three on Mr. Eggert's. I suggest that you link to Mr. Eggert's page, which is well maintained, instead of presenting an obsolete version that may be a disservice to some of your users. Yours, Gwillim Law
-----Original Message----- From: caitlin@studentsandteachers.org [mailto:caitlin@studentsandteachers.org] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 11:51 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: I found a broken link on your page: http://web.mit.edu/~netbsd/src/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm
Hi,
I'm sorry to bother you, but my name is Caitlin Walters and I'm a Geography Teacher in a small school in New England. While I was doing some research in preparing a lesson plan, I noticed that on this page...http://web.mit.edu/~netbsd/src/lib/libc/time/tz-link.htm, you have a link to http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm. I don't think that page exists any longer, or maybe the site was down when I tried it.
In my research I found this page...http://www.watch-inc.com/articles/historyoftheinternational.html, which has some very good resources and information on the international date line. I think it could make a good addition, or replacement of the link that didn't work, for your page.