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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index d4869109be..d45088d33e 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.75 +# @(#)europe 7.77 # 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 @@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ # <a href="http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/18/x-timcrtcrt01011.html"> # Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18) # </a> +# A monument was erected in 1927 to Willett, in an open space in a 45-acre wood +# near Chiselhurst, Kent that was purchased by popular subscription and open +# to the public. # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving'' @@ -216,7 +219,7 @@ # Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. # Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). # -# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks: +# 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. @@ -585,7 +588,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 # Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references. # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. -# +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Belgium 1918 only - Mar 9 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Belgium 1918 1919 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - @@ -767,7 +770,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European # Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory # for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do -# after that. +# after that. # From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): # Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation @@ -808,6 +811,19 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31 2:00 EU EE%sT # France + +# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): +# +# Henri Le Corre, Regimes Horaires pour le monde entier, Editions +# Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993 +# +# Gabriel, Traite de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Tredaniel editeur, +# Paris, 1991 +# +# Francoise Gauquelin, Problemes de l'heure resolus en astrologie, +# Guy tredaniel, Paris 1987 + + # # Shanks seems to use `24:00' ambiguously; we resolve it with Whitman. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -844,8 +860,14 @@ Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S -# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, -# but were used in other places (e.g. Monaco). +# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks writes +# that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. +# Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez, +# Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La +# Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Decartes, +# Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin, +# Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois, +# Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe). Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer # Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, # but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12), @@ -870,9 +892,11 @@ Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - # on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 - 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time -# Shanks gives 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier's 14/6/40 22hUT. + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Paris MT +# Shanks gives 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 +# Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation; +# go with Shanks. 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 @@ -1047,9 +1071,16 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 # Italy # +# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): +# Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893, +# called ``Palermo Time'' (+0053) and ``Cagliari Time'' (+0038). +# During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time. +# But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, +# so record only the time in Rome. +# # From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06): # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri -# <a href="http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html"> +# <a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html"> # Day-light Saving Time in Italy (1996-03-14) # </a> # (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute @@ -1163,6 +1194,20 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of # 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only). +# <a href="http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html"> +# From RFE/RL Newsline (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow: +# </a> +# The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will +# institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported. +# Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their +# clocks one hour in the spring.... +# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis noted that Latvia had too few +# daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European +# Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving +# time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government +# urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it +# appears that they will not do so.... + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -1180,7 +1225,8 @@ Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 - 2:00 - EET + 2:00 - EET 2001 + 2:00 EU EE%sT # Liechtenstein # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1205,7 +1251,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # as decided by the national government on Wednesday.... # The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was -# already done by Estonia. +# already done by Estonia. # From the <a href="http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm"> # Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism @@ -1283,6 +1329,18 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta 1:00 EU CE%sT # Moldova + +# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-11): +# A previous version of this database followed Shanks, who writes that +# Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. +# However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence +# on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). +# In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area +# and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. +# But moldavizolit@tirastel.md and mk@tirastel.md separately reported via +# Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. +# The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT @@ -1297,15 +1355,6 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. 2:00 EU EE%sT -Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 - 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT - 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT - 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 - 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 - 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 - 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 - 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD # Monaco # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. @@ -1580,6 +1629,13 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. # +# For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from +# John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07): +# News--often false--is spread by word of mouth. A rumor that it was +# time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with +# the rest of Russia for two weeks--even soldiers stationed here began +# enforcing curfew at the wrong time. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 |