X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff_plain/d74035b1d432bb74fdddd5e1792e4b0630965328..fe5ecec3a56c4623d0bb3743bf1a86c35a9ded9f:/share/zoneinfo/Theory diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/Theory b/share/zoneinfo/Theory index 36b087eb4c..b1e6bd5c9d 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/Theory +++ b/share/zoneinfo/Theory @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@(#)Theory 8.3 +@(#)Theory 8.5 This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -287,8 +287,7 @@ and these older names are still supported. See the file `backward' for most of these older names (e.g. `US/Eastern' instead of `America/New_York'). The other old-fashioned names still supported are -`WET', `CET', `MET', `EET' (see the file `europe'), -and `Factory' (see the file `factory'). +`WET', `CET', `MET', and `EET' (see the file `europe'). ----- Time zone abbreviations ----- @@ -360,10 +359,10 @@ abbreviations like `EST'; this avoids the ambiguity. Calendrical issues are a bit out of scope for a time zone database, but they indicate the sort of problems that we would run into if we extended the time zone database further into the past. An excellent -resource in this area is Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz, - -Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition -, Cambridge University Press (2001). Other information and +resource in this area is Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold, + +Calendrical Calculations: Third Edition +, Cambridge University Press (2008). Other information and sources are given below. They sometimes disagree.