Updated.

1999-03-25  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* timezone/README: Update from tzdata1999c and tzcode1999c.

	* timezone/africa: Update from tzdata1999c.
	* timezone/antarctica: Likewise.
	* timezone/asia: Likewise.
	* timezone/australasia: Likewise.
	* timezone/europe: Likewise.
	* timezone/northamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/southamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/zone.tab: Likewise.

	* timezone/zic.c: Update from tzcode1999c.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 54 deletions

diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe
index 98f46585e6..fe212dee0a 100644
--- a/timezone/europe
+++ b/timezone/europe
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)europe	7.58
+# @(#)europe	7.59
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995).
@@ -46,8 +46,7 @@
 #	 3:00	MSK MSD	Moscow
 #
 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
-# is Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
-# Oxford University Press (1980).
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Antique Collectors Club (1997).
 
 # From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04),
 # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
@@ -74,7 +73,6 @@
 ###############################################################################
 
 # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
-# The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14.
 
 # From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
 #
@@ -1170,7 +1168,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Sofia	1:33:16 -	LMT	1880
 # see Yugosloavia
 
 # Czech Republic
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1584-01-17.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Nov	18	2:00s	0	-
@@ -1187,7 +1184,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Prague	0:57:44 -	LMT	1850
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
 
 # Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	Sep	30	23:00	0	-
@@ -1279,7 +1275,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Tallinn	1:39:00	-	LMT	1880
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 
 # Finland
-# See Sweden for when the Gregorian calendar was adopted.
 #
 # From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
 # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
@@ -1299,9 +1294,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Helsinki	1:39:52 -	LMT	1878 May 31
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 
 # France
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-12-20.
-# French Revolutionary calendar used 1793-11-24 through 1805-12-31,
-# and (in Paris only) 1871-05-06 through 1871-05-23.
 #
 # Shanks seems to use `24:00' ambiguously; we resolve it with Whitman.
 # From Shanks (1991):
@@ -1451,7 +1443,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Athens	1:34:52 -	LMT	1895 Sep 14
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
 
 # Hungary
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1587-11-01.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Apr	 1	 3:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Sep	29	 3:00	0	-
@@ -1543,7 +1534,6 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik	-1:27:24 -	LMT	1837
 			 0:00	-	GMT
 
 # Italy
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
 #
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06):
 # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri
@@ -1816,7 +1806,6 @@ Zone Europe/Amsterdam	0:19:28 -	LMT	1892 May
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
 
 # Norway
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 # Whitman gives 1916 May 21 - 1916 Oct 21; go with Shanks.
 Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	May	22	1:00	1:00	S
@@ -1881,7 +1870,6 @@ Zone	Europe/Warsaw	1:24:00 -	LMT	1880
 # Stick with W-Eur for now.
 
 # Portugal
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
 #
 # From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12):
 # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
@@ -2006,15 +1994,6 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
 
 # Russia
 
-# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-12-02):
-# On 1929-10-01 the Soviet Union instituted an ``Eternal Calendar''
-# with 30-day months plus 5 holidays, with a 5-day week.
-# On 1931-12-01 it changed to a 6-day week; in 1934 it reverted to the
-# Gregorian calendar while retaining the 6-day week; on 1940-06-27 it
-# reverted to the 7-day week.  With the 6-day week the usual days
-# off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month.
-# (Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, _The Seven Day Circle_)
-#
 # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22):
 # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations,
 # and (unless otherwise specified) guessed what happened after 1991.
@@ -2134,7 +2113,6 @@ Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
 # see Yugoslavia
 
 # Spain
-# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 # For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1; go with Shanks.
 Rule	Spain	1917	only	-	May	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
@@ -2205,32 +2183,6 @@ Zone	Atlantic/Canary	-1:01:36 -	LMT	1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
 # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
 
 # Sweden
-
-# From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
-# <a href="news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com">
-# Subject: Re: Gregorian reform -- a part of locale?
-# </a>
-# Date: 1996-07-06
-#
-# In 1700, Denmark made the transition from Julian to Gregorian.  Sweden
-# decided to *start* a transition in 1700 as well, but rather than have one of
-# those unsightly calendar gaps :-), they simply decreed that the next leap
-# year after 1696 would be in 1744 -- putting the whole country on a calendar
-# different from both Julian and Gregorian for a period of 40 years.
-#
-# However, in 1704 something went wrong and the plan was not carried through;
-# they did, after all, have a leap year that year.  And one in 1708.  In 1712
-# they gave it up and went back to Julian, putting 30 days in February that
-# year!...
-#
-# Then in 1753, Sweden made the transition to Gregorian in the usual manner,
-# getting there only 13 years behind the original schedule.
-#
-# (A previous posting of this story was challenged, and Swedish readers
-# produced the following references to support it: "Tiderakning och historia"
-# by Natanael Beckman (1924) and "Tid, en bok om tiderakning och
-# kalendervasen" by Lars-Olof Lode'n (no date was given).)
-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1878 May 31
 			1:12:12	-	SMT	1900 Jan  1  1:00 # Stockholm MT
@@ -2240,9 +2192,7 @@ Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1878 May 31
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
 
 # Switzerland
-# The Gregorian calendar was introduced gradually in Switzerland,
-# by omitting leap years during 1583-1812.
-# From Howse (1988), p 82:
+# From Howse:
 # By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace
 # and their performance improved enormously.  Communities began to keep
 # mean time in preference to apparent time -- Geneva from 1780 ....