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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)europe	7.52
+# @(#)europe	7.53
 
 # 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
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 ###############################################################################
 
-# United Kingdom
+# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
 # The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14.
 
 # From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Prague	0:57:44 -	LMT	1850
 			1:00	Czech	CE%sT	1979
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
 
-# Denmark
+# Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland
 # Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik	-1:27:24 -	LMT	1837
 # 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">
-# http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html (1996-03-14)
+# Day-light Saving Time in Italy (1996-03-14)
 # </a>
 # (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute
 # publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows:
@@ -1712,11 +1712,9 @@ Zone	Europe/Oslo	0:43:00 -	LMT	1895
 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
 			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1980
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
-#
-# Svalbard
+
+# Svalbard & Jan Mayen
 Link	Europe/Oslo	Arctic/Longyearbyen
-#
-# Jan Mayen
 # From Whitman:
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen	-1:00	-	EGT
@@ -2084,9 +2082,10 @@ Zone	Atlantic/Canary	-1:01:36 -	LMT	1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
 # Sweden
 
 # From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
-# <a href=news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com>
-# news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com
-# </a>:
+# <a href="news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com">
+# Subject: Re: Gregorian reform -- a part of locale?
+# </a>
+# Date: 1996-07-06
 #
 # In 1700, Denmark made the transition from Julian to Gregorian.  Sweden
 # decided to *start* a transition in 1700 as well, but rather than have one of