From ce5b21b84e865ad13356dfacdc40451e7821a5ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 12:50:19 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Omit or paraphrase some quotes Instead of silently correcting some quotes, omit or paraphrase them. For a couple of quotes from ADO, simply update the dates since he supplied the corrected versions. --- asia | 15 ++++++--------- australasia | 16 ++++++---------- calendars | 2 +- europe | 6 +++--- southamerica | 2 +- 5 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/asia b/asia index 63b11ed..ca69d36 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -344,12 +344,9 @@ Rule Shang 1919 only - Sep 30 24:00 0 S # in the city at the time for people who use different time standard to adjust # their clock to their preferred time. # -# a. For the 1940 May 31 spring forward, the essay claims that it was -# coordinated between the international settlement authority and the French -# concession authority and have gathered support from Hong Kong and Xiamen, -# that it would spring forward an hour from May 31 "midnight", and the essay -# claims "Hong Kong government implemented the spring forward in the same time -# on the same date as Shanghai". +# a. For the 1940 May 31 spring forward, the essay [says] ... "Hong +# Kong government implemented the spring forward in the same time on +# the same date as Shanghai". # # b. For the 1940 fall back, it was said that they initially intended to do # so on September 30 00:59 at night, however they postponed it to October 12 @@ -2465,9 +2462,9 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # the third time belt (before 1930 this means +03). # From Alexander Konzurovski (2018-12-20): -# Qyzylorda Region (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from -# UTC+6 to UTC+5 effective December 21st, 2018. The legal document is -# located here: http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language). +# (Asia/Qyzylorda) is changing its time zone from UTC+6 to UTC+5 +# effective December 21st, 2018.... +# http://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/P1800000817 (russian language). # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 6a28b20..e97c51c 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -1826,16 +1826,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # "In Marshall Islands, Friday is followed by Sunday", NY Times. 1993-08-22. # https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html -# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27): -# ... pointed out that -# currently tzdata say Pacific/Kwajalein switched from GMT+11 to GMT-12 in -# 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT says it -# synchronized its day with the US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch -# should occur at around 1950s instead. -# -# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): -# The NYT (actually, AP) article is vague and possibly wrong about this. -# The article says the earlier switch was "40 years ago when the United States +# From Paul Eggert (2022-03-31): +# Phake Nick (2018-10-27) noted 's +# citation of a 1993 AP article published in the New York Times saying +# Kwajalein synchronized its day with the US mainland about 40 years earlier. +# However the AP article is vague and possibly wrong about this. The article +# says the earlier switch was "about 40 years ago when the United States # Army established a missile test range here". However, the Kwajalein Test # Center was established on 1960-10-01 and was run by the US Navy. It was # transferred to the US Army on 1964-07-01. See "Seize the High Ground" diff --git a/calendars b/calendars index 2e16d85..f4ed9e4 100644 --- a/calendars +++ b/calendars @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ kalenderväsen" by Lars-Olof Lodén (1968). Grotefend's data -From: "Michael Palmer" [with one obvious typo fixed] +From: "Michael Palmer" [with two obvious typos fixed] Subject: Re: Gregorian Calendar (was Re: Another FHC related question Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.german Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 02:32:48 -800 diff --git a/europe b/europe index 8227416..5051260 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -3352,7 +3352,7 @@ Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:31 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 # 14-28 **** Tomponsky District # 14-30 **** Ust-Maysky District -# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# From Arthur David Olson (2022-03-21): # Tomponsky and Ust-Maysky switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time # in 2011. @@ -3478,8 +3478,8 @@ Zone Asia/Srednekolymsk 10:14:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 # Asia/Ust-Nera covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: # 14-22 **** Oymyakonsky District -# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): -# Oymyakonsky [and the Kuril Islands] switched from +# From Arthur David Olson (2022-03-21): +# Oymyakonsky and the Kuril Islands switched from # Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011. # # From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica index 445d85b..85ad97f 100644 --- a/southamerica +++ b/southamerica @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04): # It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly -# modern Brazilian electronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal +# modern Brazilian ... voting machines which, apparently, can't deal # with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections. # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-09-20): -- 2.35.1