>From d2da99b0520dc10c928abbcc977eedbfa1a4bd75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 09:22:42 -0800
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] New tz-link section on editing source files

* NEWS: Document this.
* tz-link.htm (Editing tz database source files): New section.
Mention Sublime zoneinfo (thanks to Gilmore Davidson).
---
 NEWS        |  4 +++-
 tz-link.htm | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9f93bbb..c6c767b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     instead of older versions of that license.
 
     tz-link.htm mentions the BDE library (thanks to Andrew Paprocki)
-    and CCTZ (thanks to Tim Parenti).
+    and CCTZ (thanks to Tim Parenti), and has a new section on editing
+    tz source files (with a mention of Sublime zoneinfo, thanks to
+    Gilmore Davidson).
 
 
 Release 2015g - 2015-10-01 00:39:51 -0700
diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm
index d8b88b6..ca2f2bc 100644
--- a/tz-link.htm
+++ b/tz-link.htm
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="UTF-8"'>
 <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul">
 <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David">
-<meta name="DC.Date" content="2015-12-08">
+<meta name="DC.Date" content="2015-12-09">
 <meta name="DC.Description"
  content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
 <meta name="DC.Identifier"
@@ -168,6 +168,24 @@ href="http://blog.jonudell.net/2009/10/23/a-literary-appreciation-of-the-olsonzo
 literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database</a> comments on the
 database's style.</li>
 </ul>
+<h2>Editing <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database source files</h2>
+<p>Sources for the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database are
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8"><abbr
+title="Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit">UTF-8</abbr></a>
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file">text files</a>
+with lines terminated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline"><abbr
+title="linefeed">LF</abbr></a>,
+which can be modified by common text editors such
+as <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/">GNU Emacs</a>,
+<a href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit">gedit</a>, and
+<a href="http://www.vim.org/">vim</a>. One
+editor has a package to simplify editing further:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="https://packagecontrol.io/packages/zoneinfo">Sublime
+zoneinfo</a> is a <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/">Sublime
+Text</a> package for syntax highlighting <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
+source files.</li>
+</ul>
 <h2>Web sites using recent versions of the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database</h2>
 <p>
 These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness.
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