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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index eeb114f881..2da2df16db 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.88 +# @(#)europe 7.91 # 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 @@ -708,7 +708,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 # see Serbia and Montenegro # Cyprus -# See the `asia' file. +# Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. # Czech Republic # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -754,6 +754,11 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn 0:00 - WET 1981 0:00 EU WE%sT # +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, # and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU @@ -1055,6 +1060,11 @@ Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 @@ -1611,7 +1621,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): # # Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, -# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Olso was +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was # keeping Berlin time. # # <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists @@ -1628,7 +1638,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were # expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) -# <http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/publishing/rights/dege_warnorthof80.htm> +# <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html> # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. # |