* time/tzset.c (__tzname, __daylight, __timezone): Don't check

[kopensolaris-gnu/glibc.git] / time / northamerica

diff --git a/time/northamerica b/time/northamerica
index fb45576..479f3fc 100644 (file)
--- a/time/northamerica
+++ b/time/northamerica
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
-# @(#)northamerica     7.10
+# @(#)northamerica     7.15

 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 

+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 17, 1994):
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
+# Oxford University Press (1980).
+

 ###############################################################################
 
 # United States
 ###############################################################################
 
 # United States


@@ -106,6 +111,11 @@ Rule       US      1987    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    D
 #      Samoa standard time
 # The law doesn't give abbreviations.
 
 #      Samoa standard time
 # The law doesn't give abbreviations.
 

+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 16, 1994):
+# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
+# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, in 1867 when the US purchased it
+# from Russia.  We don't have this data pinned down yet, though.
+

 # Easy stuff first--including Alaska, where we ignore history (since we
 # can't tell if we should give Yukon time or Alaska-Hawaii time for "old"
 # times).
 # Easy stuff first--including Alaska, where we ignore history (since we
 # can't tell if we should give Yukon time or Alaska-Hawaii time for "old"
 # times).


@@ -138,7 +148,7 @@ Zone America/Phoenix        -7:00   US      M%sT    1946
 # large size and location in three states."  (The "only" means that other
 # tribal nations don't use DST.)
 
 # large size and location in three states."  (The "only" means that other
 # tribal nations don't use DST.)
 

-Link America/Denver Navajo
+Link   America/Denver  America/Shiprock

 
 # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
 # Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
 
 # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
 # Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.


@@ -148,8 +158,14 @@ Zone America/Detroit       -5:00   US      E%sT    1968
                        -5:00   US      E%sT
 
 # Samoa just changes names.  No DST, per Naval Observatory.
                        -5:00   US      E%sT
 
 # Samoa just changes names.  No DST, per Naval Observatory.

+#
+# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
+# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
+# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
+# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''

 
 

-Zone Pacific/Samoa     -11:22:48 -     LMT     1911
+Zone Pacific/Samoa      12:37:12 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
+                       -11:22:48 -     LMT     1911

                        -11:30  -       SST     1950
                        -11:00  -       NST     1967 Apr        # N=Nome
                        -11:00  -       BST     1983 Nov 30     # B=Bering
                        -11:30  -       SST     1950
                        -11:00  -       NST     1967 Apr        # N=Nome
                        -11:00  -       BST     1983 Nov 30     # B=Bering


@@ -207,6 +223,8 @@ Link        Pacific/Honolulu        HST
 # I invented the abbreviation SPST for St Pierre Standard Time; SPDT likewise.
 # Corrections are welcome!
 #
 # I invented the abbreviation SPST for St Pierre Standard Time; SPDT likewise.
 # Corrections are welcome!
 #

+# See the `europe' file for Greenland.
+#

 # See the `africa' file for Zone naming conventions.
 
 
 # See the `africa' file for Zone naming conventions.
 
 


@@ -285,6 +303,39 @@ Link       Pacific/Honolulu        HST
 # East-Saskatchewan kept to avoid problems for folks using that zone by name;
 # plain Saskatchewan added.
 
 # East-Saskatchewan kept to avoid problems for folks using that zone by name;
 # plain Saskatchewan added.
 

+# From Alain LaBont<e'> <ALB@immedia.ca> (1994-11-14):
+# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
+# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
+#
+#      UTC     Standard time   Daylight savings time
+#      offset  French  English French  English
+#      -2:30   -       -       HAT     NDT
+#      -3      -       -       HAA     ADT
+#      -3:30   HNT     NST     -       -
+#      -4      HNA     AST     HAE     EDT
+#      -5      HNE     EST     HAC     CDT
+#      -6      HNC     CST     HAR     MDT
+#      -7      HNR     MST     HAP     PDT
+#      -8      HNP     PST     HAY     YDT
+#      -9      HNY     YST     -       -
+#
+#      HN: Heure Normale       ST: Standard Time
+#      HA: Heure Avanc<e'>e    DT: Daylight saving Time
+#
+#      A: de l'Atlantique      Atlantic
+#      C: du Centre            Central
+#      E: de l'Est             Eastern
+#      M:                      Mountain
+#      N:                      Newfoundland
+#      P: du Pacifique         Pacific
+#      R: des Rocheuses
+#      T: de Terre-Neuve
+#      Y: du Yukon             Yukon
+#
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-22):
+# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
+
+

 
 # From Shanks (1991):
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 
 # From Shanks (1991):
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S