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diff --git a/time/europe b/time/europe index 73fa55c..abeba98 100644 --- a/time/europe +++ b/time/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.39 +# @(#)europe 7.40 # 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 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ # is Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, # Oxford University Press (1980). -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (December 4, 1994), +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (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. @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ # United Kingdom # The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (July 6, 1994): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (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 @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ # # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (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, @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''. -# From Arthur David Olson (January 19, 1989): +# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): # # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in # politics making a fortune, not computing. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (September 3, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03): # # Our Government...couldn't...make a decision after the 1989 consultation # exercise about the UK changing its timezone so it just let things drift @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ # an Order in Council (a Statutary Instrument, the SI thing mentioned above) # to specify the EC specified dates. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 18, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-18): # # My contact in the Ministry of Defence Public Relations department # accepted the challenge of looking into this and produced the following, @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and # if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T." -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (September 3, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03): # # > # Current rules # > Rule GB-Eire 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 BST @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ # summer time completely, noon is when the Sun is overhead, and that should # be the end of it. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 22, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-22): # # I now have the text of the Summer Time Act 1916, the granddaddy of them all. # It is headed: `An Act to provide for the Time in Great Britain and Ireland @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ # It also confirms the fact that Ireland followed Dublin time back then, # and 25 minutes behind Greenwich, as Shanks has it, would be correct. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 28, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-28): # # I now have before me, thanks to my learned legal friend Lorna, the text of # the Time (Ireland) Act 1916. @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ # of the 1880 date in Shanks. The little bit of it that is repealed # also refers solely to Ireland and Dublin Mean Time. -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 29, 1993): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-29): # # My case is that, with the sole exception of Ireland in 1916 using Dublin # Mean Time, Summer Time has been uniform throughout the United Kingdom @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ # thereby destroying the authority of the Summer Time Order specifying # summer time in 1968.... -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (November 18, 1993) +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-11-18) # # Here is a revised version of my tabrules file for the perl script I sent # before. I have personally verified the various Orders back to 1953 and @@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ # 1993 28 Mar 24 Oct fixed # 1994 27 Mar 23 Oct fixed -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (August 18, 1994): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-08-18): # I now have the text of the 7th EC directive on summer time arrangements # (94/21/EC), which was approved on 30 May.... # The major changes from existing practice are that 1995 will be the last year @@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ # by the Commission by 1 Jan 96. They have not yet appeared (I asked just # before Easter). -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (March 28, 1994): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-03-28): # The [GB-Eire] end date of 22 October [1995] conflicts with your current rule # of Oct Sun>=23, and the historical UK formula of Sun after 4th Sat. # The last time 4th Sun and Sun after 4th Sat differed was in 1989, @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 - Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S # Shanks gives 1921 Mar 21 for the following transition. -# From Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su> (November 12, 1993): +# From Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su> (1993-11-12): # My sources says, that it is Mar 20, not 21. Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 DS Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1284,10 +1284,10 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # Iceland # -# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (November 6, 1993): +# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06): # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. # -# (December 5, 1993): +# (1993-12-05): # This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of # Iceland Almanak. # @@ -1301,7 +1301,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always # Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars. # -# (December 10, 1993): +# (1993-12-10): # I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the # beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus # to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question. @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ 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> (December 9, 1993): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-12-09): # 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 -1:28 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. @@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s -# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (November 12, 1992): +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12): # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. 0:00 EU WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s @@ -1777,7 +1777,7 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 1:00 OMSST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 5:00 - OMST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 Russia OMS%sT -# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (June 29, 1994): +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (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 @@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 Russia MOS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (May 28, 1994): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-05-28): # Today's _Economist_ (p 45) reports that Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January elections. # For now, we'll guess that there was a 2-hour leap forward on March 27. @@ -2148,7 +2148,7 @@ Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 # INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl # BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax -# From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988): +# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ... # Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates). # Since 1978. 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