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* tz-link.html: Provide library URLs for Shanks and Pottenger’s
now out-of-print atlases, since their publisher no longer
maintains web pages.  Link to ANS on these atlases as sources for
much of the older tz data.  Use <abbr> a bit more often.
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Java-specific format.</li>
<li><a href="https://relativedata.com/page/Time-Zone-Master">Time Zone
Master</a> is a Microsoft Windows clock program that can automatically
download, compile and use <code>tz</code> releases. The Basic version
is free.</li>
download, compile and use <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> releases.
The Basic version is free.</li>
<li><a
href="http://veladg.com/velaterra.html">VelaTerra</a> is
a macOS program. Its developers
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.astro.com/atlas">Time-zone Atlas</a>
is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks and Pottenger's out-of-print
time zone history atlases now published in <a
time zone history atlases
<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/468828649">for the US</a> and
<a href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76950459">for the world</a>,
now published in <a
href="https://astrocom.com/astrology-products/software/acs-atlas-software">software</a>
form by <a href="https://astrocom.com">ACS-Starcrafts</a>.
These atlases are extensive but unreliable, as Shanks appears to have
Although these extensive atlases
<a href="https://astrologynewsservice.com/opinion/how-astrologers-contributed-to-the-information-age-a-brief-history-of-time/">were
sources for much of the older <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> data</a>,
they are unreliable as Shanks appears to have
guessed many <abbr>UT</abbr> offsets and transitions. The atlases cite no
sources and do not indicate which entries are guesswork.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX">HP-UX</a> has a database in
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title="International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service">IERS</abbr>
Bulletins</a> contains official publications of the International
Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, which decides when leap
seconds occur. The <code>tz</code> code and data support leap seconds
seconds occur. The <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> code and data support leap seconds
via an optional "<code>right</code>" configuration, as opposed to the
default "<code>posix</code>" configuration.</li>
<li><a href="https://developers.google.com/time/smear">Leap Smear</a>
discusses how to gradually adjust <abbr>POSIX</abbr> clocks near a
leap second so that they disagree with <abbr>UTC</abbr> by at most a
half second, even though every <abbr>POSIX</abbr> minute has exactly
sixty seconds. This approach works with the default <code>tz</code>
sixty seconds. This approach works with the default <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code>
"<code>posix</code>" configuration, is <a
href="http://bk1.ntp.org/ntp-stable/README.leapsmear">supported</a> by
the <abbr>NTP</abbr> reference implementation, and is used by major
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