Gwillim Law <RLAW@nc.rr.com> wrote on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 at 19:18:45 -0400 in <002e01ca3b11$df17eb50$6501a8c0@statoids4qizor>:
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 This page is an outdated version of Paul Eggert's definitive page describing the Olson tz database, which is at http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm.
Yeah, it's just a checked out copy of the NetBSD source tree from May, 2005. That it happens to be on the web is kind of neither here nor there. Ideally no one should be looking at that who doesn't know what it is. I suppose the problem is that google has indexed it? I'm not really sure quite what to say. "Please don't use that or link to it." --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson
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.