I'm (very belatedly) forwarding this message from Halász Sándor Viktor, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. These suggestions are to be part of the next set of proposed changes, due later today or tomorrow. --ado -----Original Message----- From: hsv@tbbs.net [mailto:hsv@tbbs.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 6:23 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Links in the Olson database This is not about clocksetting-zone information. I wrote a JScript script for turning all the links into an HTML page, and found fault with a handful of the actual anchors and for myself made these changes, maybe of interest if another does the same: diff -b ../austra~1 ./austra~1 1349c1349 < # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> ---
# <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> 1359c1359 < # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>
# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html"> diff -b ../europe ./europe 460c460 < # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"
# <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"> 1102c1102 < # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.</a> diff -b ../southa~1 ./southa~1 581c581 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm"></a>
# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2002/D4399.htm">4,399</a> 584c584 < # <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm"></a>
# <a href="http://www.presidencia.gov.br/CCIVIL/decreto/2003/D4844.htm">4,844</a> 587c587 < # <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm"></a>
# <a href="http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_Ato2004-2006/2004/Decreto/D5223.htm">5,223</a>
Of course, many of the webpages have evaporated. (The script is really not good enough, for it misses those pages listed by themselvs after 'From Joseph S. Myers', and keeps only text right around the link. It seems to me not worth the while to make it turn all of the files into a webpage.)