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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 3bf1b1ab02..ec6720a804 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.92 +# @(#)europe 7.95 # 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 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04), +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, # Luxembourg, the Netherlands. # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): # # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ # # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, @@ -168,12 +168,12 @@ # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) -# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john> +# From: Jonathan Leffler # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in # politics making a fortune, not computing. -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and @@ -204,15 +204,15 @@ # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, # so we use `BDST'. -# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. -# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in # <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/"> # History of legal time in Britain # </a> -# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech @@ -422,13 +422,6 @@ Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST -Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 - -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin/Dunsink MT - -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s # Irish Summer Time - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 - 0:00 EU GMT/BST Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s @@ -536,7 +529,7 @@ Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. -# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12): +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): # The official German names ... are # # Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 @@ -652,7 +645,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 # pp 8-9. # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium: # Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121. -# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie 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. # @@ -711,7 +704,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # Bulgaria # -# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October @@ -756,6 +749,40 @@ Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 1:00 EU CE%sT # Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law +# [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU treaty with effect from 1973: +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequenet decrees with the law +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - @@ -768,13 +795,10 @@ Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 to 1949 Oct 1, and disagrees in minor ways -# about many of the above dates; go with Shanks. # -# For 1894, Shanks says Jan, Whitman Apr; go with Whitman. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 - 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Apr # Copenhagen Mean Time + 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 @@ -874,12 +898,12 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... # -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28): +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different @@ -889,7 +913,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to # summer time next spring.'' -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390"> # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law # </a> @@ -938,11 +962,11 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 # Finland # -# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): +# From Hannu Strang (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, # and it's supposed to change at 4am... # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994): +# From Paul Eggert (25 Sep 1994): # Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981. # Go with Strang instead. # @@ -1019,7 +1043,7 @@ Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S # 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), +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1053,7 +1077,7 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Germany -# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29): +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] @@ -1168,7 +1192,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # Iceland # -# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06): +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. # # (1993-12-05): @@ -1195,7 +1219,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it # might mean something else (???). # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points. # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that # Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. @@ -1311,7 +1335,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # Latvia -# From Liene Kanepe <Liene_Kanepe@lm.gov.lv> (1998-09-17): +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the @@ -1398,7 +1422,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. -# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. @@ -1505,7 +1529,7 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta # 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 +# But [two people] separately reported via # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. @@ -1608,12 +1632,10 @@ Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 1:00 EU CE%sT # Norway +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1916 May 21 - 1916 Oct 21; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - -# Whitman says DST observed 1935-08-11/1942-11-01, then 1943-03-29/10-04, -# 1944-04-03/10-02, and 1945-04-01/10-01; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S @@ -1686,19 +1708,26 @@ Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - # For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks. Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1946 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 - 1949 Oct 1; go with Shanks. +# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, +# Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., +# <http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1> +# Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. +# He also gives these further references: +# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm> +# Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf> +Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May Sun>=25 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 @@ -1707,33 +1736,17 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct - 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 Apr 3 1:00 - 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1999 -# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) gives EU rules, but the _The Warsaw Voice_ -# <a href="http://www.warsawvoice.com.pl/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml"> -# http://www.warsawvoice.com/pl/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml (1995-09-24) -# </a> -# says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00. -# Stick with W-Eur for now. -# -# From Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl (1999-06-10): -# According to my colleagues someone recently decided, that Poland would -# follow European Union regulations, so - I think - the matter is not -# worth further discussion. -# -# From Paul Eggert (1999-06-10): -# Kasperski also writes that the government futzed with the rules in 1997 -# or 1998 but he doesn't remember the details. Assume they switched to -# EU rules in 1999. + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 1:00 EU CE%sT # Portugal # -# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12): +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. # -# Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. # @@ -1863,25 +1876,25 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Russia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, # are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks, except we follow # Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. # -# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29): +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! # I do not know why they have decided to make this change; # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. # -# From Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> (1996-10-04): +# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): # `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with # UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. # -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. @@ -2069,7 +2082,7 @@ 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 +# Metod Kozelj 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 @@ -2343,7 +2356,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. # Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened @@ -2373,8 +2386,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # ... # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann) -# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp> +# From: Tom Hofmann # ... # # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when @@ -2393,11 +2405,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, # 4002 Basle, Switzerland -# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho +# ... # ... # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter) +# From: Dik T. Winter # ... # # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. @@ -2423,8 +2435,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # ... # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland -# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl -# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax +# ... # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ... |