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diff --git a/time/europe b/time/europe index b96f23556d..ce66e8ab58 100644 --- a/time/europe +++ b/time/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.37 +# @(#)europe 7.38 # 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 @@ -125,6 +125,15 @@ # transition date for London, namely 1847 Sep 22. We don't know as much # about Dublin, so we use 1880 Aug 2, the legal transition time. +# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): +# Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915), +# a London builder who circulated a pamphlet ``Waste of Daylight'' (1907) +# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, +# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. +# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, +# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. +# One-hour Summer Time was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. + # From Arthur David Olson (January 19, 1989): # # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's @@ -418,6 +427,22 @@ # who provided the wartime regulations and a snippet of Hansard explaining # why double summer time started on a Monday in 1945 (it was Easter). +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-05-29): +# I have now got a copy of the British Standard Time Act 1968. +# It says (S4(2)) that it expires at 02:00 GMT on 31 October 1971 unless +# an Order in Council was passed in Parliament to make the Act permanent. +# No Order was passed, so 02:00 1971-10-31 it is... +# +# Interestingly, it says baldly `This Act shall come into force on +# 27 October 1968', without giving a time. As S1 of the Act merely +# stated that `The time for general purposes in the United Kingdom +# (to be known as British standard time) shall be one hour in +# advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year; ...' you could +# possibly argue that the start time of BStandardT was 00:00 1968-10-27, +# especially as the Act repealed the Summer Time Acts 1916--1947 in toto, +# thereby destroying the authority of the Summer Time Order specifying +# summer time in 1968.... + # From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (November 18, 1993) # # Here is a revised version of my tabrules file for the perl script I sent @@ -617,7 +642,7 @@ # To maintain strict historical accuracy you could start a new UK ending rule # of Oct Sun>=22 in 1990. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-06-12): # # As Ilieve remarks, the date `20 April 1924' in the table of ``Summer Time: A # Consultation Document'' (Cm 722, 1989) table is a transcription error; @@ -637,15 +662,28 @@ # It actually just had one transition. # * Northern Ireland used single daylight savings time throughout WW II. # Actually, it conformed to Britain. +# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18. +# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. +# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). # -# The following claim by Shanks is possible though doubtful; -# we'll ignore it for now. +# The following claims by Shanks are possible though doubtful; +# we'll ignore them for now. # * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT # to daylight savings time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to # conform with Great Britain. +# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. +# # # Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than Shanks. +# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): +# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, +# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC. +# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate +# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of +# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is +# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST". + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S # 1916 to 1925--irregular Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST @@ -710,11 +748,11 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST # 1953 to 1980, ending rules Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 GMT -Rule GB-Eire 1961 1967 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT -Rule GB-Eire 1971 only - Oct 31 3:00 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT # 1981 on Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST @@ -724,29 +762,30 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Sep 22 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Feb 18 2:00 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00 + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 + 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT -0:25:21 1:00 DST 1916 Oct 1 3:00 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Feb 18 2:00 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 3:00 + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 + 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:21 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT -0:25:21 1:00 DST 1916 Oct 1 3:00 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1940 Feb 25 2:00 - 0:00 1:00 BST 1946 Oct 6 2:00 + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00 + 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00 - 0:00 1:00 BST 1947 Nov 2 2:00 + 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Feb 18 2:00 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 3:00 - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 - 0:00 EU GMT/BST + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27 + 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996 + 0:00 EU GMT/IST ############################################################################### @@ -1294,11 +1333,11 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 # Italy # From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06): # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri -# <http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/it/ienitlt.html> (see `FP' below), +# <URL:http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html> (see `FP' below), # taken from a publication of the Italian National Electrotechnical Institute. # When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows: # -# year FP Shanks (S) Whitman (W) Go with: +# year FP Shanks (S) Whitman (W) Go with: # 1916 06-03 06-03 24:00 06-03 00:00 FP & W # 09-30 09-30 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s # 1917 04-01 03-31 24:00 03-31 00:00 FP & S |