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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 50440e5cc4..4b4290ec65 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.62 +# @(#)europe 7.64 # 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 @@ -155,6 +155,11 @@ # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and # if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T." +# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02): +# ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the +# main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) +# agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). + # Howse writes (p 157) `DBST'; let's assume this is a typo. # From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19): @@ -708,6 +713,17 @@ # Implements the eighth Directive. Has the same text about the Isle of Man, # Guernsey and Jersey as the 1994 Order. +# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02): +# I today found the 1916 summer time orders for the Channel Islands in +# the Public Record Office (HO 45/10811/312364).... Alderney, +# Jersey and Guernsey all enacted summer time for 1916 (and the +# enactment for the Isle of Man is already noted). This doesn't +# complete the resolution of timekeeping in the Channel Islands, since +# 1917-1921 need to be resolved for the Channel Islands, and it isn't +# clear whether the islands were using GMT or local time then. The +# changes in Alderney and Guernsey were at the same 2am GMT time as +# for Great Britain; the order for Jersey is more interesting. + # From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; @@ -716,7 +732,7 @@ # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976) # </a>. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-06-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): # # The date `20 April 1924' in the table of ``Summer Time: A # Consultation Document'' (Cm 722, 1989) table is a transcription error; @@ -740,11 +756,14 @@ # 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 claims by Shanks are possible though doubtful; -# we'll ignore them for now. +# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks: # * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT # to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to # conform with Great Britain. +# S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise. +# +# The following claim by Shanks is possible though doubtful; +# we'll ignore it for now. # * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. # # @@ -1165,6 +1184,12 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # see Yugoslavia # Bulgaria +# +# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: +# EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... +# EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - @@ -1179,7 +1204,8 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 - 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Croatia # see Yugosloavia |