* NEWS, Theory, asia: Mention Ogle's book, or reviews of it. --- NEWS | 3 +++ Theory | 10 +++++++++- asia | 9 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f9de054..14a87ac 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes on editing tz source files (with a mention of Sublime zoneinfo, thanks to Gilmore Davidson). + The Theory and asia files now mention the 2015 book "The Global + Transformation of Time, 1870-1950", and cite a couple of reviews. + The America/Chicago entry now documents the informal use of US central time in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. (Thanks to Rick McDermid, Matt Johnson, and Steve Jones.) diff --git a/Theory b/Theory index 96cba51..4f9c226 100644 --- a/Theory +++ b/Theory @@ -263,7 +263,15 @@ Errors in the tz database arise from many sources: be needed if the tz database's scope were extended to cover even just the known or guessed history of standard time; for example, the current single entry for France would need to split into dozens - of entries, perhaps hundreds. + of entries, perhaps hundreds. And in most of the world even this + approach would be misleading due to widespread disagreement or + indifference about what times should be observed. In her 2015 book + "The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950", Vanessa Ogle writes + "Outside of Europe and North America there was no system of time + zones at all, often not even a stable landscape of mean times, + prior to the middle decades of the twentieth century". See: + Timothy Shenk, Booked: A Global History of Time. Dissent 2015-12-17 + https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-a-global-history-of-time-vanessa... * Most of the pre-1970 data entries come from unreliable sources, often astrology books that lack citations and whose compilers evidently diff --git a/asia b/asia index 7756444..a59d653 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -874,6 +874,15 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 9:00 - TLT # India + +# From Ian P. Beacock, in "A brief history of (modern) time", The Atlantic +# http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-creation-of-modern... +# (2015-12-22): +# In January 1906, several thousand cotton-mill workers rioted on the +# outskirts of Bombay.... They were protesting the proposed abolition of +# local time in favor of Indian Standard Time.... Journalists called this +# dispute the "Battle of the Clocks." It lasted nearly half a century. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? -- 2.5.0