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-# @(#)northamerica 7.58
+# @(#)northamerica 7.59
# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
@@ -81,12 +81,12 @@
# From Joseph Gallant <notquite@hotmail.com>, citing
# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
-# to switch to London for Atlee's address, but the American people
+# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
-# London which were to precede Mr. Atlee's speech.
+# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -185,13 +185,6 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
# See the file "australasia".
-# From Ryan Alessi of the Thousand Oaks Star (2001-02-15) via Rives McDow:
-# Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, introduced a bill in Congress on
-# Wednesday that could have California operating on Denver time as
-# early as this summer.... The options include keeping
-# daylight-saving time all year long, or setting clocks back two hours
-# -- instead of just one -- during the existing daylight-saving time.
-
# US Eastern time, represented by New York
@@ -280,7 +273,7 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
# Alaska
# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-01):
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian,
@@ -288,6 +281,13 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent
# the Julian calendar.
#
+# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were
+# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
+# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement
+# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there
+# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps
+# it's best to simply use the official transition.
+#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
-8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the
# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide.
# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different
-# time zone than Danner's Hardware across the street.
+# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -589,10 +589,11 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00
-6:00 US C%sT
# Navassa
+# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
# also claimed by Haiti
# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
-# US lighthouse 1917/1997-01
+# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
# currently uninhabited
# see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'',
# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites