More spelling and accent fixes.

Plus, update a now-obsolete source for Samoa's late-2011 change to the
International Date Line.

Makefile

@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ LDLIBS=
 #	year 2000 grief
 #  -Dtime_tz=\"T\" to use T as the time_t type, rather than the system time_t
 #  -DTZ_DOMAIN=\"foo\" to use "foo" for gettext domain name; default is "tz"
-#  -TTZ_DOMAINDIR=\"/path\" to use "/path" for gettext directory;
+#  -DTZ_DOMAINDIR=\"/path\" to use "/path" for gettext directory;
 #	the default is system-supplied, typically "/usr/lib/locale"
 #  -DTZDEFRULESTRING=\",date/time,date/time\" to default to the specified
 #	DST transitions if the time zone files cannot be accessed

NEWS

@@ -1184,7 +1184,7 @@ Release data2009m - 2009-09-03 10:23:43 -0400
 
 Release data2009l - 2009-08-14 09:13:07 -0400
 
-  Samao (comments only) and Egypt
+  Samoa (comments only) and Egypt
 
 
 Release 2009k - 2009-07-20 09:46:08 -0400
@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@ Release 2005o - 2005-11-28 10:55:26 -0500
 
 Release 2005n - 2005-10-03 09:44:09 -0400
 
-  changes by Paul Eggert (both the Uruguary changes and the Kyrgyzstan
+  changes by Paul Eggert (both the Uruguay changes and the Kyrgyzstan
   et al. changes)
 
 

Theory

@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ Gregorian calendar:
 14/25 Dec 1583 - Steiermark
 
 06/17 Jan 1584 - Austria and Bohemia
-11/22 Jan 1584 - Luzern, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn
+11/22 Jan 1584 - Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Zug, Freiburg, Solothurn
 12/23 Jan 1584 - Silesia and the Lausitz
 22 Jan/
    02 Feb 1584 - Hungary (legally on 21 Oct 1587)

asia

@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9
 # No they don't.  See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52.  Even though
 # China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
 # Peking (Beijing) time zone was recognized.  Since that date, China
-# has two of 'em - Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
+# has two of 'em - Peking's and Ürümqi (named after the capital of
 # the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region).  I don't know about DST for it.
 #
 # . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Rule	PRC	1987	1991	-	Apr	Sun>=10	0:00	1:00	D
 # separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
 # implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
 # Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
-# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
+# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Ürümqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
 # ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
 #
 # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Chongqing	7:06:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Chungking
 # Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
 # Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
 # Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
-Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
+Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # Ürümqi or Ürümchi
 			6:00	-	URUT	1980 May # Ürümqi Time
 			8:00	PRC	C%sT
 # Kunlun Time
@@ -403,9 +403,9 @@ Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
 # population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two
 # hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang
 # Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as
-# local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in
+# local governments such as the Ürümqi city government use both times in
 # publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as
-# "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language
+# "Ürümqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language
 # they almost invariably use Xinjiang time.
 #
 # (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its
@@ -418,17 +418,17 @@ Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
 # time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and
 # others moving their clocks ahead.)
 #
-# ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time.
+# ...an example of an official website using of Ürümqi time.
 #
 # The first few lines of the Google translation of
 # http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39
 # (retrieved 2009-10-13)
-# > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least
+# > Ürümqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least
 # > 500 million yuan
 # >
-# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20),
-# > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River
-# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men
+# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Ürümqi Time 18:20),
+# > Ürümqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River
+# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Ürümqi City Fire officers and men
 # > have worked continuously for 22 hours...
 
 # From Luther Ma (2009-11-19):
@@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # Ürümqi or Urumchi
 # 3. Urumqi...
 # 4. Kashgar...
 # ...
-# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the
+# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Ürümqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the
 # 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding
 # countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child.
 #

australasia

@@ -571,42 +571,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
 #
 # http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
 
-# From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17):
-# I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law
-# Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she
-# confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather
-# than the time zone change, but I'll paste the relevant bits below. But
-# the essence is that at midnight 29 Dec (UTC-11 I suppose), Samoa
-# changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13:
-#
-# International Date Line Bill 2011
-#
-# AN ACT to provide for the change to standard time in Samoa and to make
-# consequential amendments to the position of the International Date
-# Line, and for related purposes.
-#
-# BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament
-# assembled as follows:
-#
-# 1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the
-# International Date Line Act 2011. (2) Except for section 5(3) this Act
-# commences at 12 o'clock midnight, on Thursday 29th December 2011. (3)
-# Section 5(3) commences on the date of assent by the Head of State.
-#
-# [snip]
-#
-# 3. Interpretation - [snip] "Samoa standard time" in this Act and any
-# other statute of Samoa which refers to 'Samoa standard time' means the
-# time 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time.
-#
-# 4. Samoa standard time - (1) Upon the commencement of this Act, Samoa
-# standard time shall be set at 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated
-# Universal Time for the whole of Samoa. (2) All references to Samoa's
-# time zone and to Samoa standard time in Samoa in all legislation and
-# instruments after the commencement of this Act shall be references to
-# Samoa standard time as provided for in this Act. (3) Nothing in this
-# Act affects the provisions of the Daylight Saving Act 2009, except that
-# it defines Samoa standard time....
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
+# The International Date Line Act 2011
+# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
+# changed Samoa from UTC-11 to UTC+13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
+# Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
+# accordingly.
 
 # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
 # http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
@@ -649,7 +619,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
 			-11:00	-	WST	2010 Sep 26
 			-11:00	1:00	WSDT	2011 Apr 2 4:00
 			-11:00	-	WST	2011 Sep 24 3:00
-			-11:00	1:00	WSDT	2011 Dec 30
+			-11:00	1:00	WSDT	2011 Dec 29 24:00
 			 13:00	1:00	WSDT	2012 Apr Sun>=1 4:00
 			 13:00	WS	WS%sT
 

europe

@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ Zone Europe/Copenhagen	 0:50:20 -	LMT	1890
 			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00
 			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1980
 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
-Zone Atlantic/Faroe	-0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Torshavn
+Zone Atlantic/Faroe	-0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Tórshavn
 			 0:00	-	WET	1981
 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
 #
@@ -1855,7 +1855,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Oslo	0:43:00 -	LMT	1895 Jan  1
 # <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists
 # burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in
 # 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite
-# frequent air ttacks from Germans.  In 1943 the Americans established a
+# frequent air attacks from Germans.  In 1943 the Americans established a
 # radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City".  Possibly
 # the UT offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that
 # Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules.
@@ -2808,7 +2808,7 @@ Link	Europe/Istanbul	Asia/Istanbul	# Istanbul is in both continents.
 # Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
 # approval from 266 deputies.
 #
-# Ukraine abolishes transter back to the winter time (in Russian)
+# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian)
 # http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/
 #
 # The Ukrainians will no longer change the clock (in Russian)
@@ -2874,7 +2874,7 @@ Zone Europe/Kiev	2:02:04 -	LMT	1880
 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 # Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991.
-# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
+# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Rusyn/Ukrainian pronunciation, but
 # "Uzhgorod" is more common in English.
 Zone Europe/Uzhgorod	1:29:12 -	LMT	1890 Oct
 			1:00	-	CET	1940

northamerica

@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ Zone America/Boise	-7:44:49 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
 # with the following exceptions:
 #
 # - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
-#   Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
+#   Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
 #
 # - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
 #
@@ -2688,7 +2688,7 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica	-5:36:13 -	LMT	1890		# San José
 # web site, the Granma.  Please check out
 # http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html
 #
-# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsens information, the change
+# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change
 # will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
 
 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12):

southamerica

@@ -682,7 +682,7 @@ Zone	America/La_Paz	-4:32:36 -	LMT	1890
 
 # From Paul Schulze (2008-06-24):
 # ...by law number 11.662 of April 24, 2008 (published in the "Diario
-# Oficial da Uniao"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
+# Oficial da União"...) in Brazil there are changes in the timezones,
 # effective today (00:00am at June 24, 2008) as follows:
 #
 # a) The timezone UTC+5 is e[x]tinguished, with all the Acre state and the
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ Link	America/Curacao	America/Kralendijk	# Caribbean Netherlands
 
 # Ecuador
 #
-# Milne says the Sentral and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
+# Milne says the Central and South American Telegraph Company used -5:24:15.
 #
 # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-04):
 # Apparently Ecuador had a failed experiment with DST in 1992.