[PROPOSED 1/2] Update some tz-link links
* tz-link.html: Update some citations and remove some that no longer work. --- asia | 4 ++-- australasia | 2 +- tz-link.html | 33 ++++++++++++++------------------- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/asia b/asia index a2055e6d..1a6fa4f8 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -3620,7 +3620,7 @@ Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct # Philippines -# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (2024-01-21): # The Spanish initially used American (west-of-Greenwich) time. # It is unknown what time Manila kept when the British occupied it from # 1762-10-06 through 1764-04; for now assume it kept American time. @@ -3628,7 +3628,7 @@ Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct # Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's # History of the International Date Line -# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm +# https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm # The rest of the data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger. # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26): diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index a9e9eb4a..0e9c2592 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -2043,7 +2043,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila # ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." # This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20. -# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm +# https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_alaska_samoa.htm # Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 # in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 diff --git a/tz-link.html b/tz-link.html index 84bea935..93c047cb 100644 --- a/tz-link.html +++ b/tz-link.html @@ -362,9 +362,6 @@ lets you see the <code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> values directly.</li> <li><a href="https://www.convertit.com/Go/ConvertIt/World_Time/Current_Time.ASP">Current Time in 1000 Places</a> uses descriptions of the values.</li> -<li><a href="https://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/TZworld.html">Complete -timezone information for all countries</a> -displays tables of <abbr>DST</abbr> rules. <li><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock – Worldwide</a> lets you sort zone names and convert times.</li> <li><a href="https://24timezones.com">24TimeZones</a> has a world @@ -666,9 +663,7 @@ available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li> <ul> <li><a href="https://foxclocks.org">FoxClocks</a> is an extension for <a href="https://www.google.com/chrome/">Google -Chrome</a> and for <a -href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/Toolkit">Mozilla -Toolkit</a> applications like <a +Chrome</a>, <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a> and <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/">Thunderbird</a>. It displays multiple clocks in the application window, and has a mapping @@ -826,9 +821,6 @@ coordinates?</a>" discusses other geolocation possibilities.</li> <li><a href="http://statoids.com/statoids.html">Administrative Divisions of Countries ("Statoids")</a> lists political subdivision data related to time zones.</li> -<li><a href="https://home.kpn.nl/vanadovv/time/Multizones.html">Time -zone boundaries for multizone countries</a> summarizes legal -boundaries between time zones within countries.</li> <li><a href="https://manifold.net/info/freestuff.shtml">Manifold Software – GIS and Database Tools</a> includes a Manifold-format map of world time zone boundaries distributed under the @@ -862,7 +854,7 @@ Lords</a> discusses how authoritarians manipulate civil time.</li> <li><a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/timezone/">Working with Time Zones</a> contains guidelines and best practices for software applications that deal with civil time.</li> -<li><a href="https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm">A History of +<li><a href="https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm">A History of the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most important time zone boundary.</li> <li><a href="http://statoids.com/tconcept.html">Basic Time @@ -875,7 +867,7 @@ Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time zones.</li> <dl> <dt>Australia</dt> <dd>The Parliamentary Library commissioned a <a -href="https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2009-10/10rp10.pdf">research +href="https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/library/prspub/359V6/upload_binary/359v60.pdf">research paper on daylight saving time in Australia</a>. The Bureau of Meteorology publishes a list of <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">Implementation @@ -883,9 +875,9 @@ Dates of Daylight Savings Time within Australia</a>.</dd> <dt>Belgium</dt> <dd>The Royal Observatory of Belgium maintains a table of time in Belgium (in -<a href="https://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html" +<a href="https://robinfo.oma.be/nl/astro-info/tijd/" hreflang="nl">Dutch</a> and <a -href="https://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/fri001a.html" +href="https://robinfo.oma.be/fr/astro-info/heure/" hreflang="fr">French</a>).</dd> <dt>Brazil</dt> <dd>The Time Service Department of the National Observatory @@ -929,7 +921,7 @@ Congress has published a <a href="https://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.h..." hreflang="es">history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)</a>.</dd> <dt>Netherlands</dt> -<dd><a href="https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm" +<dd><a href="https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm" hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a> covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd> <dt>New Zealand</dt> @@ -986,14 +978,17 @@ neither supports nor refutes road safety benefits from shifts in time zones.</li> <li>Havranek T, Herman D, Irsova D. <a href="https://www.iaee.org/en/publications/ejarticle.aspx?id=3051">Does -daylight saving save electricity? A meta-analysis.</a> +daylight saving save electricity? A meta-analysis</a>. <em>Energy J.</em> 2018;39(2):35–61. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.39.2.thav">10.5547/01956574.39.2.thav</a>. This analyzes research literature and concludes, "Electricity savings are larger for countries farther away from the equator, while subtropical regions consume more electricity because of <abbr>DST</abbr>."</li> -<li>Malow BA. It is time to abolish the clock change and adopt permanent -standard time in the United States: a Sleep Research Society position statement. +<li>Malow BA. <a +href="https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/45/12/zsac236/6717940">It is time +to abolish the clock change and adopt permanent +standard time in the United States: +a Sleep Research Society position statement</a>. <em>Sleep.</em> 2022;45(12):zsac236. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsac236">10.1093/sleep/zsac236</a>. After reviewing the scientific literature, the Sleep Research Society @@ -1002,13 +997,13 @@ advocates permanent standard time due to its health benefits. <a href="https://jcsm.aasm.org/doi/10.5664/jcsm.10898">Permanent standard time is the optimal choice for health and safety: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine position statement</a>. -<em>J Clin Sleep Med.</em> 2023-10-31. +<em>J Clin Sleep Med.</em> 2024;20(1):121–125. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.10898">10.5664/jcsm.10898</a>. The AASM argues for permanent standard time due to health and safety risks and economic costs of both <abbr>DST</abbr> transitions and permanent <abbr>DST</abbr>.</li> <li>Roenneberg T, Wirz-Justice A, Skene DJ <em>et al</em>. -<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205184/">Why +<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0748730419854197">Why should we abolish Daylight Saving Time?</a> <em>J Biol Rhythms.</em> 2019;34(3):227–230. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0748730419854197">10.1177/0748730419854197</a>. -- 2.40.1
* theory.html (Timezone identifiers): Mention zonenow.tab. --- theory.html | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/theory.html b/theory.html index 369c7543..0fb8d66a 100644 --- a/theory.html +++ b/theory.html @@ -362,6 +362,11 @@ The backward-compatibility file <code>zone.tab</code> is similar but conforms to the older-version guidelines related to <abbr>ISO</abbr> 3166-1; it lists only one country code per entry and unlike <code>zone1970.tab</code> it can list names defined in <code>backward</code>. +Applications that process only timestamps from now on can instead use the file +<code>zonenow.tab</code>, which partitions the world more coarsely, +into regions where clocks agree now and in the predicted future; +this file is smaller and simpler than <code>zone1970.tab</code> +and <code>zone.tab</code>. </p> <p> -- 2.40.1
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