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diff --git a/theory.html b/theory.html index 12f4f7f4b439..8f76aaf0b3c8 100644 --- a/theory.html +++ b/theory.html @@ -592,10 +592,10 @@ in decreasing order of importance: locations while uninhabited. The leading "<code>-</code>" is a flag that the <abbr>UT</abbr> offset is in some sense undefined; this notation is derived - from <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339">Internet + from <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3339/">Internet <abbr title="Request For Comments">RFC</abbr> 3339</a>. (The abbreviation Z that - <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9557">Internet + <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9557/">Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 9557</a> uses for this concept would violate the POSIX requirement of at least three characters in an abbreviation.) @@ -632,7 +632,7 @@ Errors in the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database arise from many sources: timestamps, and current predictions will be incorrect after future governments change the rules. For example, if today someone schedules a meeting for 13:00 next - October 1, Casablanca time, and tomorrow Morocco changes its + October 1, Dublin time, and tomorrow Ireland changes its daylight saving rules, software can mess up after the rule change if it blithely relies on conversions made before the change. </li> @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ Errors in the <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> database arise from many sources: zones at all, often not even a stable landscape of mean times, prior to the middle decades of the twentieth century”. See: Timothy Shenk, <a -href="https://dissentmagazine.org/blog/booked-a-global-history-of-time-vanessa-ogle/">Booked: +href="https://dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-a-global-history-of-time-vanessa-ogle/">Booked: A Global History of Time</a>. <cite>Dissent</cite> 2015-12-17. </li> <li> @@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ with problems that were fixed in later POSIX editions. has a format that is hard to describe and is error-prone in practice. Also, proleptic <code>TZ</code> strings cannot deal with daylight saving time rules not based on the Gregorian calendar (as in - Morocco), or with situations where more than two time zone + Palestine), or with situations where more than two time zone abbreviations or <abbr>UT</abbr> offsets are used in an area. </p> @@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ However POSIX.1-2024, like earlier POSIX editions, has some limitations: the name of a file from which time-related information is read. The file’s format is <dfn><abbr>TZif</abbr></dfn>, a timezone information format that contains binary data; see - <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9636">Internet + <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9636/">Internet <abbr>RFC</abbr> 9636</a>. The daylight saving time rules to be used for a particular timezone are encoded in the @@ -1212,8 +1212,8 @@ The vestigial <abbr>API</abbr>s are: </li> <li> The <code>tm_isdst</code> member is almost never needed and most of - its uses should be discouraged in favor of the abovementioned - <abbr>API</abbr>s. + its uses should be discouraged in favor of the + <abbr>API</abbr>s mentioned above. It was intended as an index into the <code>tzname</code> variable, but as mentioned previously that usage is obsolete. Although it can still be used in arguments to @@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ Sources for time on other planets: Michael Allison and Robert Schmunk, “<a href="https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html">Technical Notes on Mars Solar Time as Adopted by the Mars24 Sunclock</a>” - (2020-03-08). + (2023-05-15). </li> <li> Zara Mirmalek, |