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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index d97f2250f9..e0bd741afd 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.67 +# @(#)europe 7.69 # 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 @@ -162,586 +162,15 @@ # Howse writes (p 157) `DBST'; let's assume this is a typo. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19): -# The following list attempts to show the complete history of Summer Time -# legislation in the United Kingdom, and has quite a bit to say about -# the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as well. -# -# Things that I have not personally seen are marked (???). Things that -# I haven't seen but Joseph Myers has are marked (jsm). The problem -# with finding old Orders (rather than Acts) is that nobody seems to -# keep the actual documents themselves, not even the Government. They -# get bound into annual volumes, which are published, but by the time -# this happens the Orders are mainly spent as the years they refer -# to have come and gone, so they don't get included in the annual -# volumes. -# -# Thanks are due to my learned legal friend Lorna Montgomerie, who dug out -# the dusty old statutes, to Melanie Allison of the Ministry of Defence, -# who provided the wartime regulations and a snippet of Hansard explaining -# why double summer time started on a Monday in 1945 (it was Easter), -# and to Joseph Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>, who tracked down the Orders -# up to 1945, some of the old Acts, and the first five EC Directives. -# -# Some definitions: -# -# Great Britain: England, Scotland and Wales -# United Kingdom: Great Britain plus Ireland (up to 1922) or Northern -# Ireland (since 1922) -# S.I.: Statutory Instrument, the modern name for secondary legislation -# S.R.&O.: Statutory Rules and Orders, the older name for secondary legislation -# -# Unless otherwise specified, Acts and secondary legislation are assumed -# to apply throughout the United Kingdom, but not to the Isle of Man -# or the Channel Islands. -# -# Some of the Acts and Orders I found in various libraries, and I don't -# have copies. When I looked at them I was looking for dates and not things -# like whether they applied to the Bailiwick of Jersey. I will try to -# check these documents again. -# -# --- -# -# - The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 9) -# -# Defined Greenwich mean time to be the standard time in Great Britain -# and Dublin mean time to be the standard time in Ireland, superseding -# various forms of local mean time. -# -# - The Statutory Time Act, 1883 (???) -# -# An Act of Tynwald, the Isle of Man Parliament. It appears to have -# defined the standard time on the Isle of Man as GMT but as I haven't -# seen it I don't know if it used Greenwich mean time, some other definition, -# or just said that Isle of Man time would be the same as in Great Britain. -# -# - The Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 62) -# -# Gives the power, by Order in Council, to extend wartime legislation -# to the Isle of Man. -# -# - The Summer Time Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 14) -# -# Introduced Summer Time for the first time, in Great Britain and Ireland. -# Specified a one hour offset from GMT (DMT in Ireland), dates of -# Sunday 21 May and Sunday 1 October and times of 02:00 (GMT/DMT). -# Gave a power to make Orders in subsequent years, for the duration -# of the then current war. -# -# - The Time (Ireland) Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 45) -# -# This abolished Dublin mean time at 02:00 DMT on Sunday 1 October 1916, -# bringing the whole of the United Kingdom onto GMT. As Ireland was behind -# GMT/BST at 02:00 DMT on 1 Oct Great Britain had already put the clocks back. -# Using Paul Eggert's suggestion of IST for Irish Summer Time and the figure -# derived from Whitman for the offset of IST from GMT (00:34:39) the sequence -# would have been: -# Dublin London -# 02:34:38 IST 02:59:59 BST -# 02:34:39 IST 02:00:00 GMT -# 02:59:59 IST 02:25:20 GMT -# 02:25:21 GMT 02:25:21 GMT -# with the transition 03:00:00 IST -> 02:00:00 DMT -> 02:25:21 GMT all at once. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 -# -# An Order made under the Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act, 1914 -# extending the Summer Time Act, 1916 to the Isle of Man. Dated -# 23 May 1916, two days after the start of Summer Time, but it says that -# the Act is deemed to have taken effect in the Isle of Man at the same -# time as it took effect in the United Kingdom. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1917, No. 362 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 giving dates -# for Summer Time in 1917 of Sunday 8 April to Monday 17 September, -# both at 02:00 GMT. Note that Summer Time ends on a Monday. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time (Isle of Man) Act, 1916 -# (the thing created by S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382) specifying the same -# dates of 8 April to 17 September, at 02:00 GMT for the Isle of Man. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 giving dates -# for Summer Time in 1918 of Sunday 24 March to Monday 30 September, -# both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1918, No. 429 -# -# The matching Isle of Man Order for 1918 with the same dates and times. -# -# - The Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918 -# (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 59) -# -# This gave power to specify a legal end date for the war just ended, -# which would affect things like the Summer Time Act, 1916, which applied -# only in wartime. This date was to be close to the date of formal -# ratification of the treaty or treaties of peace. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 giving dates -# for Summer Time in 1919 of Sunday 30 March to Monday 29 September, -# both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1919, No. 366 -# -# The matching Isle of Man Order for 1919 with the same dates and times. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 giving dates -# for Summer Time in 1920 of Sunday 28 March to Monday 27 September, -# both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1920, No. 573 -# -# The matching Isle of Man Order for 1920 with the same dates and times. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844 -# -# An Order modifying both S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458 and S.R.&O. 1920, No. 573 to -# change the end date for Summer Time from Monday 27 September to -# Monday 25 October (the time remaining 02:00 GMT). The 1989 Green -# Paper (Cm 722) says this was done because of a coal strike. -# -# - The War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5. c. 5) -# -# This extends the power to make Orders under the Summer Time Act, 1916 -# for a period of 12 months after the termination of the war. -# Came into force on 31 March 1920. Although the war had been over for more -# than 12 months by then the legal end date had not yet been set. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 and the War -# Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 giving dates for Summer Time -# in 1921 of Sunday 3 April to Monday 3 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1921, No. 364 -# -# The matching Isle of Man Order for 1921 with the same dates and times. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 and the War -# Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 giving dates for Summer Time -# in 1921 of Sunday 26 March to Sunday 8 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# It also mentions the arrangements for defining the legal end date -# for the late war. An Order was made on 10 August 1921, under the -# Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918, setting -# a date of 31 August 1921. This means the powers of the Summer Time -# Act, 1916 would finally expire on 31 August 1922. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 290 (???) -# -# This is probably the matching Isle of Man Order. -# -# - The Summer Time Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5. c. 22) -# -# This specifies an offset of 1 hour and dates of the day after the third -# Saturday in April, unless that be Easter, in which case it is the day after -# the second Saturday, and the day after the third Saturday in September. -# The time is 02:00 GMT. It applied in 1922 and 1923, and longer if Parliament -# so approved. It applied to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as well. -# Came into Force on 20 July 1920. Note the reversion to ending on a Sunday. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 1205 -# -# An Order made under the War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 -# dated 13 October 1922. It revokes (among other things) the Order extending -# the Summer Time Act, 1916 to the Isle of Man. -# -# - The Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 37) -# -# This extended the Summer Time Act, 1922 (among other things) until -# 31 December 1924. -# -# - The Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1924 (15 Geo. 5. c. 1) (jsm) -# -# This further extended the Summer Time Act, 1922 (among other things) until -# 31 December 1925. -# -# - The Time Act (Northern Ireland), 1924 (14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 24 (N.I.)) -# -# This Act says that while it remains in force, any Act or Order relating -# to the time for general purposes in Great Britain shall also apply -# in Northern Ireland, and the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916 shall have effect -# accordingly. -# -# - The Summer Time Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5. c. 64) -# -# This makes the 1922 Act permanent, with a change to the end date to the -# day after the first Saturday in October. Came into force on 7 August 1925. -# -# - The Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 (2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 62) (???) -# -# I haven't seen this one. It presumably gave the Government powers to -# do all manner of things during the newly started war. -# -# - The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939, S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379 -# -# These were made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939. -# They change the end date to be the day after the third Saturday in November. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 -# -# An Order in Council amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# It changed the start date to the day after the fourth Saturday in February -# (ie. 25 Feb 1940). -# -# - S.R.&O. 1940, No. 1883 -# -# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This continues summer time throughout the year after it starts in 1940. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476 -# -# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This introduces double summer time, starting at 01:00 GMT on the day after -# the first Saturday in May and ending at 01:00 GMT on the day after the -# second Saturday in August, offset another hour from normal summer time, -# which continues throughout the rest of the year. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506 -# -# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This changes the start date of Double Summer Time to the day after the first -# Saturday in April, bringing it forward from May. -# -# - S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932 -# -# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This changed the end date of Double Summer Time to the day after the -# third Saturday in September (ie. 17 September 1944). -# -# - S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 -# -# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This changes the start and end dates of Double Summer Time to the -# day after the first Sunday in April and the day after the second Saturday -# in July (ie. Mon 2 April to Sun 15 July). -# -# I have this quote from Hansard (the official record of the United Kingdom -# Parliament), Oral Answers, 1 March 1945, cols 1559--60, explaining the -# unusual start on a Monday: -# -# `58. Major Sir Goronwy Owen asked the Secretary of State for the Home -# Department if he is now able to state the Government's proposals -# regarding double summer time. -# -# [two other similar questions omitted] -# -# Mr. H. Morrison: The Government, in reviewing the matter, have -# considered, [...] the conclusion has been reached that the adoption of -# double summer time from the beginning of April is essential to the -# maintenance of the war effort. [...] As 1st April is Easter Sunday, -# when very early services are held in many churches, it is proposed that -# double summer time shall start not in the night preceding Easter -# Sunday, but in the night of Sunday-Monday so that it will operate from -# Monday, 2nd April.' -# -# - S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208 -# -# An Order under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940 revoking -# a long list of things, including the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. -# This meant that Summer Time reverted to being set by the 1922 and 1925 Acts. -# It was made on 28 September, early enough to end Summer Time on the -# date defined by the 1925 Act: 7 October. -# -# - The Summer Time Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 16) -# -# Came into force on 11 March 1947. Amended the Summer Time Acts, 1922 and -# 1925 to change the dates of Summer Time and to introduce Double Summer Time -# (although it doesn't give this, or any, name for this period of 2 hour -# offset from GMT). Dates are given for 1947 only and are: 02:00 GMT Sunday -# 16 March, 01:00 GMT Sunday 13 April, 01:00 GMT Sunday 10 August, and 02:00 -# Sunday 2 November. It gave a power to make Orders for subsequent years, -# both to vary the dates and to continue Double Summer Time. It applied -# to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) -# -# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1948 of -# 14 March and 31 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# Although the 1947 Act had legislated for Double Summer Time, this was -# not continued after 1947. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) -# -# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1949 -# of 3 April and 30 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) -# -# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1950 -# of 16 April and 22 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) -# -# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1951 -# of 15 April and 21 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) -# -# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1952 -# of 20 April and 26 October, both at 02:00 GMT. -# -# This is the last of this run of Orders, so for 1953 things reverted -# to the 1922 and 1925 Acts. -# -# - The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland), 1954 (1954 c. 33 (N.I.)) (???) -# -# I presume that section 39 of this Act is similar to section 9 of the -# Interpretation Act, 1978 (listed below) in specifying GMT as the -# legal time in Northern Ireland, replacing the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71) -# -# Specified dates of 26 March and 29 October (02:00 GMT) for 1961 -# -# - Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465) -# -# Specified dates of 25 March to 28 October (02:00 GMT) for 1962. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81) -# -# Specified dates of 31 March to 27 October (02:00 GMT) for 1963. -# -# - Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101) -# -# Specified dates of 22 March to 25 October (02:00 GMT) for 1964. -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201) -# -# Specified dates for three years (all 02:00 GMT): -# 1965: 21 March to 24 October -# 1966: 20 March to 23 October -# 1967: 19 March to 29 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148) -# - Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117) -# -# The first of these specifies dates for 1968 of 18 February for the United -# Kingdom but 7 April for the Isle of Man, both ending on 27 October, -# all at 02:00 GMT. The second Order changes the Isle of Man start date -# to 18 February to match the United Kingdom. -# -# - The British Standard Time Act 1968 (1968 c. 45) -# -# This came into force on 27 October 1968 and continued summer time throughout -# the year. It expired at 02:00 GMT on 31 October 1971, as specified in the -# Act, as Parliament did not move to make this experment permanent. -# It applied to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. -# -# 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. -# -# - The Manx Time Act 1968 -# -# This is an Act of Tynwald (the Isle of Man Parliament) that said that -# henceforth Manx time would be the same as the time in Great Britain. -# -# - The Summer Time Act 1972 (1972 c. 6) -# -# This specified a reversion to normal Summer Time behaviour with a start -# date of the day after the third Saturday in March, unless that is Easter, -# when it is the day after the second Saturday, and an end date of the day -# after the fourth Saturday in October. Times are at 02:00 GMT, offset is -# 1 hour. It gives the power to make Orders to vary these dates and -# times. This Act is still in force and is the legal authority for -# implementing the EC Directives in the United Kingdom. -# -# - The Interpretation Act 1978 (1978 c. 30) -# -# Section 9 of this Act replaces section 1 of the Statutes (Definition of -# Time) Act, 1880 with very similar wording maintaining GMT as the legal -# time in Great Britain. This does not apply in Northern Ireland (it -# has its own Interpretation Act listed above). -# -# - Council Directive of 22 July 1980 on summertime arrangements (80/737/EEC) -# -# The first of the European Directives on Summer Time. It specified start -# dates for 1981 and 1982. No agreement had been reached on end dates. -# Only dates were given, there was no rule like `last Sunday in March'. -# The main change for the United Kingdom was a move to a 01:00 GMT change -# time. The dates: -# 1981: 29 March -# 1982: 28 March -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089) -# -# Specified dates for 1981 and 1982, with the start dates as in the -# EC Directive and all times 01:00 GMT: -# 1981: 29 March to 25 October -# 1982: 28 March to 24 October -# -# - Second Council Directive of 10 June 1982 on summertime arrangements -# (82/399/EEC) -# -# The next European Directive. Specified dates for three years, 1983 to 1985. -# Agreement still hadn't been reached on a common end date, and wouldn't -# be until 1994 with the appeareance of the seventh Directive with a common -# date for 1996 and beyond, but this time the Directive gave two sets of -# end dates. The start date was specified by rule: the last Sunday in March. -# All times were 01:00 GMT. The end dates were given without rule, as: -# 1983: 25 September or 23 October -# 1984: 30 September or 28 october -# 1985: 29 September or 27 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673) -# -# Implemented the second EC Directive, using the October end dates. -# 1983: 27 March to 23 October -# 1984: 25 March to 28 october -# 1985: 31 March to 27 October -# -# - Third Council Directive of 12 December 1984 on summertime arrangements -# (84/634/EEC) -# -# Specified start dates of the last Sunday in March and two sets of end -# dates, last Sunday in September and fourth Sunday in October, all at -# 01:00 GMT. The end dates were also specified as dates: -# 1986: 28 September or 26 October -# 1987: 27 September or 25 October -# 1988: 25 September or 23 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223) -# -# Implemented the third EC Directive, using the October end dates. -# 1986: 30 March to 26 October -# 1987: 29 March to 25 October -# 1988: 27 March to 23 October -# -# - Council Directive of 20 December 1985 amending Directive 84/634/EEC -# on summertime arrangements (85/582/EEC) -# -# This was to do with the accession of Spain and Portugal to the EEC. -# The previous directve had used wording like `Member States belonging -# to the zero (Greenwich) time zone' when refering to the different -# sets of end dates. Portugal was in that time zone but was not going -# to follow the United Kingdom and Ireland dates, so the text was reworded -# without any change to the dates themselves. -# -# - Fourth Council Directive of 22 December 1987 on summertime arrangements -# (88/14/EEC) -# -# This Directive covered only a single year: 1989. My guess is that -# this was because 1989 was one of the years when the historic United Kingdom -# end date of the Sunday after the fourth Saturday in October differed from -# the rule in the previous Directive of the fourth Sunday in October. -# All times are 01:00 GMT. No rule was specified, specific dates were given: -# 1989: 26 March to 24 September or 29 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931) -# -# Implemented the dates of 26 March to 29 October for 1989. -# -# - Fifth Council Directive of 21 December 1988 on summertime arrangements -# (89/47/EEC) -# -# Covered the three years 1990 to 1992. All times are 01:00 GMT. Gave both -# rules (last Sunday in March, last Sunday in September or fourth Sunday -# in October) and specific dates: -# 1990: 25 March to 30 September or 28 October -# 1991: 31 March to 29 September or 27 October -# 1992: 29 March to 27 September or 25 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985) -# -# Implemented the fifth Directive using the October end dates. -# -# - Sixth Council Directive 92/20/EEC of 26 March 1992 on summertime -# arrangements -# -# Covered the two years 1993 and 1994. All times are 01:00 GMT. Specified -# both rules (same as the fifth Directive) and specific dates: -# 1993: 28 March to 26 September or 24 October -# 1994: 27 March to 25 September or 23 October -# -# - Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729) -# -# Implemented the sixth Directive using the October end dates. -# -# - Seventh Directive 94/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council -# of 30 May 1994 on summer-time arrangements -# -# Covered the three years 1995 to 1997. Agreement had finally been reached -# on a common end date, to start in 1996. Both rules and dates were given. -# The rules were the same last Sunday in March to last Sunday in September -# or fourth Sunday in October for 1995, with the end rule changing to the -# last Sunday in October for 1996 and 1997. The year 1995 was another of -# the tricky ones where the EC and traditional United Kingdom rules differed -# but this time the UK changed on the fourth Sunday, 22 October, earlier -# than usual. All times are 01:00 GMT. Specific dates were also given: -# 1995: 26 March to 24 September or 22 October -# 1996: 31 March to 27 October -# 1997: 30 March to 26 October -# -# - Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798) -# -# Implements the seventh Directive using the October end date in 1995. -# Applies also to the Bailiwick of Guernsey but not to the Bailiwick of -# Jersey or the Isle of Man, which have their own (unspecified) legislation -# on the subject. -# -# - Eighth Directive 97/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council -# of 22 July 1997 on summer-time arrangements -# -# Covers four years: 1998 to 2001. All times are 01:00 GMT. Specifies both -# rules, last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October, and specific dates: -# 1998: 29 March to 25 October -# 1999: 28 March to 31 October -# 2000: 26 March to 29 October -# 2001: 25 March to 28 October -# -# <a href="http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1997/97298201.htm"> -# - Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982) -# </a> -# -# Implements the eighth Directive. Has the same text about the Isle of Man, -# Guernsey and Jersey as the 1994 Order. +# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length +# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating +# and extending this list, which can be found in +# <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/"> +# History of legal time in Britain +# </a> (2000-02-12). -# 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 Paul Eggert (1999-10-22): -# Mark Brader kindly translated the 1916 Jersey order from the French. -# It says that the 1916 transitions were 05-20 and 09-30 at midnight. -# No doubt this was 24:00, two or three hours earlier than Great Britain. -# It also says that after 1916 they'll sync with Great Britain. - -# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-28): -# I have the 1918 orders for Guernsey, Alderney (both changing on same -# dates as UK, 2am GMT) and Sark (same dates; start and end at 2am, -# start "temps de Greenwich" (not specified as "temps moyen de -# Greenwich" which was used in the other orders) and end in an -# unspecified zone). For Jersey the same file (Public Record Office: HO -# 45/10892/357138) includes letters to the effect that in 1918 and 1919 -# the States of Jersey agreed the same start and end dates as the UK -# (times unspecified, and it was the 1916 Jersey order that specified -# change at midnight of an unspecified zone). - -# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): +# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech @@ -749,19 +178,11 @@ # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976) # </a>. -# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): +# From Paul Eggert (2000-02-17): # -# The date `20 April 1924' in the table of ``Summer Time: A -# Consultation Document'' (Cm 722, 1989) table is a transcription error; -# 20 April was an Easter Sunday. Shanks has 13 April, the correct date. -# Also, the table is not quite right for 1925 through 1938; the correct rules -# (which Shanks uses) are given in the Summer Time Acts of 1922 and 1925. -# Shanks and the UK Government paper disagree about the Apr 1956 transition; -# since we have no other data, and since Shanks was correct in the other -# points of disagreement about London, we'll believe Shanks for now. -# Also, for lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948. +# For lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948. # -# Given Peter Ilieve's comments, the following claims by Shanks are incorrect: +# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks are incorrect: # * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until # 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain. # Actually, Wales was identical after 1880. @@ -830,8 +251,8 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT # S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST -# The Summer Time Act, 1922 Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT +# The Summer Time Act, 1922 Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST @@ -1326,6 +747,11 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik # for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do # after that. +# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): +# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation +# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all +# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time @@ -1337,7 +763,7 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 - 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1 2:00 - EET # Finland |