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diff --git a/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/tz-link.htm b/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/tz-link.htm index 63ec385..bd92f64 100644 --- a/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/tz-link.htm +++ b/elsie.nci.nih.gov/src/tz-link.htm @@ -2,13 +2,15 @@ PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> -<head> -<title>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</title> +<head profile="http://dublincore.org/documents/2008/08/04/dc-html/"> +<title>Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data</title> <link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.1/"> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content='text/html; charset="UTF-8"'> +<meta name="DC.Title" + content="Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data"> <meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul"> <meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David"> -<meta name="DC.Date" content="2015-10-01"> +<meta name="DC.Date" content="2015-12-13"> <meta name="DC.Description" content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time"> <meta name="DC.Identifier" @@ -17,7 +19,7 @@ content="database,daylight saving,DST,time zone,timezone,tz,zoneinfo"> </head> <body> -<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1> +<h1>Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data</h1> <h2>The <code><abbr title="time zone">tz</abbr></code> database</h2> <p> The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public-domain</a> @@ -168,6 +170,24 @@ 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. @@ -175,6 +195,8 @@ These are listed roughly in ascending order of complexity and fanciness. <ul> <li><a href="http://time.is">Time.is</a> shows locations' time and zones in a simple format.</li> +<li><a href="https://www.timejones.com/">TimeJones.com</a> is a simple +time zone converter.</li> <li><a href="http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdatepick.html">Date and Time Gateway</a> lets you see the <code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> values directly.</li> @@ -356,6 +378,14 @@ a <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> binary file reader written in C that creates a <code>GTimeZone</code> object representing sets of <abbr>UT</abbr> offsets. It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li> +<li>The +<a href="https://github.com/bloomberg/bde/wiki">BDE Standard Library</a>'s +<code>baltzo::TimeZoneUtil</code> component contains a C++ +implementation of a binary file reader. It is freely available under +the Apache License.</li> +<li><a href="https://github.com/google/cctz">CCTZ</a> is a simple C++ +library that translates between UTC and civil time and can read binary +files. It is freely available under the Apache License.</li> <li><a href="http://bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a> is a <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> binary file reader written in Java. It is freely available under the <abbr>LGPL</abbr>.</li> |