>From 34531eaf9300c5c503f7d83a663a13e42692bed1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:21:02 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] * northamerica: Improve "two Sundays" wording. --- northamerica | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica index ddda4c6..dc943a3 100644 --- a/northamerica +++ b/northamerica @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ 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 (2017-06-14): +# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15): # 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. # On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # 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 two Sundays off that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). +# and so celebrated two Sundays 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 -- 2.9.4