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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-01-23 12:29:12 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2023-01-23 12:29:12 -0800
commit6027594e36de948ac92dc4b74a66cc5c4adf3f5b (patch)
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Use US legal capitalization for Chamorro
* australasia, northamerica: Fix capitalization in commentary about US law, as the law says “Chamorro standard time” not the popular “Chamorro Standard Time”. primarily for “§” and we might as well support them all.
-rw-r--r--australasia4
-rw-r--r--northamerica5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index af0410a..749b72c 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila
# period. It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during
# that period of time like the surrounding area.
-# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23):
# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila
# they did as that avoids the need for a separate zone due to our 1970 cutoff.
#
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
-# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation,
+# under the name "Chamorro standard time". There is no official abbreviation,
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
index 24b68e7..be5825b 100644
--- a/northamerica
+++ b/northamerica
@@ -276,9 +276,10 @@ Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT
# -10 Standard Alaska Time (AST) Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST)
# -11 (unofficial) Nome (NST) Bering standard time (BST)
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
-# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time"
+# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23), from a 2001-01-08 heads-up from Rives McDow:
+# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced "Chamorro standard time"
# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia".
+# Also see 15 U.S.C. §263 <https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/263>.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):
# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian