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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 3053e50..50440e5 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.60 +# @(#)europe 7.62 # 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 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ # 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, -# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Antique Collectors Club (1997). +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). # From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04), # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, @@ -100,31 +100,32 @@ # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, # and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country. -# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828); -# it was popularized in 1840 by Capt. Basil Hall, RN (1788-1844), -# famed explorer and former Commissioner for Longitude. +# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) +# and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903). # The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway # in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most -# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847 Sep 22 the +# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847-09-22 the # Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be -# adopted at all stations; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists most major +# adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it. +# The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian, +# and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many # railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public -# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the Great Clock -# in Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands, +# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock +# on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands, # one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal # system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading # to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13. # The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition -# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880 Aug 2. +# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02. # # In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single -# transition date for London, namely 1847 Sep 22. We don't know as much -# about Dublin, so we use 1880 Aug 2, the legal transition time. +# transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much +# about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time. # From Paul Eggert (1999-01-30): # Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915), # a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society -# who circulated a pamphlet ``Waste of Daylight'' (1907) +# who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907) # that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, # and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. # A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, @@ -154,6 +155,8 @@ # 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." +# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST'; let's assume this is a typo. + # From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19): # The following list attempts to show the complete history of Summer Time # legislation in the United Kingdom, and has quite a bit to say about @@ -749,17 +752,17 @@ # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): # Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31) -# reports that Cheriton Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time (CT), -# equivalent to French civil time. +# reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time +# (CT), equivalent to French civil time. # Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that -# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility just outside Cheriton) +# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door) # and Frethun run in CT. # My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities, # the French concession operators and the British civil authorities, # and that the time depends on who you're talking to. # If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason, # I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST. -# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST for Cheriton. +# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST. # From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): # The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, @@ -880,7 +883,7 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT # See EU for rules starting in 1996. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Sep 22 +Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 @@ -1875,13 +1878,24 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 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 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1999 # IATA SSIM (1991/1996) gives EU rules, but the _The Warsaw Voice_ -# <a href="http://www.contact.waw.pl/voice/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml"> -# http://www.contact.waw.pl/voice/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml (1995-09-24) +# <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 EU CE%sT # Portugal # |