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-# @(#)europe 7.82
+# @(#)europe 7.83
# 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
@@ -33,20 +33,20 @@
# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
# Corrections are welcome!
-# std dst
-# LMT Local Mean Time
-# -4:00 AST Atlantic
-# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
-# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
-# 0:00 GMT BST Greenwich, British Summer
-# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
-# 0:00 WET WEST Western Europe
-# 0:19:32 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
-# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)*
-# 1:00 CET CEST Central Europe
-# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
-# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
-# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
+# std dst 2dst
+# LMT Local Mean Time
+# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic
+# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
+# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
+# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer
+# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
+# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe
+# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
+# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)*
+# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
+# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
+# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
+# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
#
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
@@ -558,20 +558,30 @@ Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Austria
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and
+# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
+# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
+# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition
+# Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and guess 02:00
+# for 1945-04-12.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 -
-Rule Austria 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Austria 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00
- 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920
+ 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s
+ 1:00 - CET 1946
1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981
1:00 EU CE%sT
@@ -654,7 +664,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Bosnia and Herzegovina
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Bulgaria
#
@@ -681,7 +691,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Croatia
-# see Yugosloavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Czech Republic
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -750,7 +760,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn
# introduced.
# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
-#
+#
# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have
# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have
@@ -991,25 +1001,29 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29):
# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische
# Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916.
-#
-# <a href="http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/432/lega.htm">
-# Realisation of Legal Time in Germany
-# </a>
+# [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
+
+# From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23):
+# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a
+# href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/">
+# General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):
+# <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf">
+# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
+# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
+# this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
-# Shanks says 05-24 2:00 to 09-24 3:00 for DDST; go with the PTB, who quotes
-# the Archiv fuer publizist. Arbeit (Munzinger-Archiv) 652 (Zeitsystem)
-# (1961-11-25), which gives dates only. Guess 3:00 transition times.
-Rule Germany 1945 only - May 31 3:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
-Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 23 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
+Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
-# The PTB gives 3:00 CET and 3:00 CEST for the midsummer transition times;
-# go with Shanks.
Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M
Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
@@ -1341,6 +1355,15 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun
# Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism
# </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving.
+# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07):
+# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will
+# observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid
+# down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its
+# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of
+# 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at
+# http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm
+
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time
@@ -1355,7 +1378,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998
2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u
1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u
- 2:00 - EET
+ 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
# Luxembourg
# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.
@@ -1393,7 +1417,7 @@ Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Macedonia
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Malta
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -1979,11 +2003,27 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2
11:00 Russia ANA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
12:00 Russia ANA%sT
+# Serbia and Montenegro
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
+ 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
+# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of
+# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time.
+# Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
+ 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia
+
# Slovakia
Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
# Slovenia
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Spain
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -2191,6 +2231,15 @@ Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880
Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# Ukraine
+#
+# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice,
+# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
+# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment
+# regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
+# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday
+# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of
+# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am"
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
# Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev.
Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880
@@ -2249,22 +2298,6 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880
3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
2:00 EU EE%sT
-# Yugoslavia
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
- 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
- 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
-# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of
-# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time.
-# Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
- 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27
- 1:00 EU CE%sT
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia
-
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# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from