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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index b3a3b269d3..79c068ee5f 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 8.6 +# @(#)europe 8.10 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -259,32 +259,32 @@ # -- James Joyce, Ulysses # From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): -# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include +# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include # various relating to legal time, for example: -# +# # ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html -# +# # ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html # ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html -# +# # ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html # ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html # ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html -# +# # ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html # ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html # ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html # # [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is # <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.] -# -# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these -# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover # the laws applicable in Ireland.) -# -# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined -# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it -# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time # being GMT+1.) # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979 1:00 EU CE%sT -# Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland +# Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26): # http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT -Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn +Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn 0:00 - WET 1981 0:00 EU WE%sT # @@ -2278,6 +2278,34 @@ Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1848 Sep 12 1:00 EU CE%sT # Turkey + +# From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03): +# The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now. +# ... The latest rules are available at - +# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107 +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03): +# I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that +# DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time. I am not sure +# what happened before that. One example for each year from 1996 to 2001: +# http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016 +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021 +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027 +# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03): +# Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09): +# Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC +# start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07): +# http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp +# The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...: +# http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm +# I was able to locate the following seemingly official document +# (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006: +# http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -2332,13 +2360,17 @@ Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1991 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 1:56:56 - IMT 1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time? 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1978 Oct 15 3:00 Turkey TR%sT 1985 Apr 20 # Turkey Time - 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1986 - 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 + 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 2007 2:00 EU EE%sT Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. |