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    24 # <pre>
       
    25 
       
    26 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
       
    27 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
       
    28 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
       
    29 
       
    30 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
    31 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
       
    32 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
       
    33 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
       
    34 #
       
    35 # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
       
    36 # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
       
    37 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
       
    38 # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
       
    39 # of the IATA's data after 1990.
       
    40 #
       
    41 # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
       
    42 # entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
       
    43 #
       
    44 # Other sources occasionally used include:
       
    45 #
       
    46 #	Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
       
    47 #	Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
       
    48 #	which I found in the UCLA library.
       
    49 #
       
    50 #	<a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
       
    51 #	William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
       
    52 #	</a> (1914-03)
       
    53 #
       
    54 #	Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH),
       
    55 #	<a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm">
       
    56 #	History of Summer Time
       
    57 #	</a> (1998-09-21, in Portuguese)
       
    58 
       
    59 #
       
    60 # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
       
    61 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
       
    62 # Corrections are welcome!
       
    63 #                   std dst  2dst
       
    64 #                   LMT           Local Mean Time
       
    65 #       -4:00       AST ADT       Atlantic
       
    66 #       -3:00       WGT WGST      Western Greenland*
       
    67 #       -1:00       EGT EGST      Eastern Greenland*
       
    68 #        0:00       GMT BST  BDST Greenwich, British Summer
       
    69 #        0:00       GMT IST       Greenwich, Irish Summer
       
    70 #        0:00       WET WEST WEMT Western Europe
       
    71 #        0:19:32.13 AMT NST       Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
       
    72 #        0:20       NET NEST      Netherlands (1937-1940)*
       
    73 #        1:00       CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
       
    74 #        1:00:14    SET           Swedish (1879-1899)*
       
    75 #        2:00       EET EEST      Eastern Europe
       
    76 #        3:00       MSK MSD       Moscow
       
    77 #
       
    78 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
       
    79 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
       
    80 
       
    81 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04),
       
    82 # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
       
    83 # Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
       
    84 # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
       
    85 # Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece.
       
    86 # Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal.
       
    87 # Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for
       
    88 # entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8%
       
    89 # on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous
       
    90 # referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice.
       
    91 # Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.)
       
    92 # ...
       
    93 # Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT.
       
    94 # I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards.
       
    95 # ...
       
    96 # There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules].
       
    97 # A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact
       
    98 # national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the
       
    99 # different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed
       
   100 # in the Directive.
       
   101 
       
   102 
       
   103 ###############################################################################
       
   104 
       
   105 # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
       
   106 
       
   107 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06):
       
   108 #
       
   109 # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
       
   110 # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
       
   111 # and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
       
   112 # of the text said:
       
   113 #
       
   114 # `An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
       
   115 # beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude
       
   116 # was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
       
   117 # this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
       
   118 # made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
       
   119 # but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
       
   120 # along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
       
   121 #
       
   122 # I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
       
   123 # position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longitude should
       
   124 # be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
       
   125 #
       
   126 # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
       
   127 
       
   128 # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
       
   129 #
       
   130 # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
       
   131 # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
       
   132 # and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country.
       
   133 # The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828)
       
   134 # and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903).
       
   135 # The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway
       
   136 # in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most
       
   137 # (though not all) railways used London time.  On 1847-09-22 the
       
   138 # Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be
       
   139 # adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it.
       
   140 # The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian,
       
   141 # and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many
       
   142 # railways as using GMT.  By 1855 the vast majority of public
       
   143 # clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock
       
   144 # on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands,
       
   145 # one for local time and one for GMT).  The last major holdout was the legal
       
   146 # system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading
       
   147 # to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13.
       
   148 # The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition
       
   149 # of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02.
       
   150 #
       
   151 # In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single
       
   152 # transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01.  We don't know as much
       
   153 # about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time.
       
   154 
       
   155 # From Paul Eggert (2003-09-27):
       
   156 # Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915),
       
   157 # a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society
       
   158 # who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907)
       
   159 # that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April,
       
   160 # and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September.
       
   161 # A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times,
       
   162 # but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests.
       
   163 # Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and
       
   164 # it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916.
       
   165 # See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18).
       
   166 # A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in
       
   167 # a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular
       
   168 # subscription and open to the public.  On the south face of the monolith,
       
   169 # designed by G. W. Miller, is the the William Willett Memorial Sundial,
       
   170 # which is permanently set to Summer Time.
       
   171 
       
   172 # From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28):
       
   173 # It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of
       
   174 # summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country
       
   175 # between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which
       
   176 # plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the
       
   177 # foundations of civilization throughout the world.
       
   178 #	-- <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm">
       
   179 #	"A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly
       
   180 #	</a>
       
   181 
       
   182 # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
       
   183 # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving''
       
   184 # when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
       
   185 # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
       
   186 # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''.
       
   187 
       
   188 # From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
       
   189 #
       
   190 # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
       
   191 # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
       
   192 
       
   193 # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed)
       
   194 # From: Jonathan Leffler
       
   195 # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament.
       
   196 # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
       
   197 # politics making a fortune, not computing.
       
   198 
       
   199 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14):
       
   200 # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the
       
   201 # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time.  Look for the published
       
   202 # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
       
   203 # if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
       
   204 
       
   205 # From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02):
       
   206 # ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the
       
   207 # main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516)
       
   208 # agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945).
       
   209 
       
   210 # From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03):
       
   211 # On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir
       
   212 # Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any
       
   213 # official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't
       
   214 # but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British
       
   215 # Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally.
       
   216 # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/bbc-19410418.png
       
   217 # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png
       
   218 
       
   219 # From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21):
       
   220 # [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time
       
   221 # which is to be introduced in May....
       
   222 # I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time"
       
   223 # which could not be said to run counter to any official description.
       
   224 
       
   225 # From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
       
   226 # Howse writes (p 157) `DBST' too, but `BDST' seems to have been common
       
   227 # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first,
       
   228 # so we use `BDST'.
       
   229 
       
   230 # Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length
       
   231 # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
       
   232 # Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating
       
   233 # and extending this list, which can be found in
       
   234 # <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">
       
   235 # History of legal time in Britain
       
   236 # </a>
       
   237 
       
   238 # From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06):
       
   239 #
       
   240 # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
       
   241 # see Lord Tanlaw's speech
       
   242 # <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0">
       
   243 # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976)
       
   244 # </a>.
       
   245 
       
   246 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   247 #
       
   248 # For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948.
       
   249 #
       
   250 # Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger
       
   251 # are incorrect:
       
   252 #     * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until
       
   253 #	1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain.
       
   254 # Actually, Wales was identical after 1880.
       
   255 #     * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1.
       
   256 # It actually just had one transition.
       
   257 #     * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II.
       
   258 # Actually, it conformed to Britain.
       
   259 #     * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18.
       
   260 # Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time.
       
   261 # Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change).
       
   262 #
       
   263 # Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger:
       
   264 #     * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT
       
   265 #	to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to
       
   266 #	conform with Great Britain.
       
   267 # S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise.
       
   268 #
       
   269 # The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful;
       
   270 # we'll ignore it for now.
       
   271 #     * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00.
       
   272 #
       
   273 #
       
   274 # Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than
       
   275 # Shanks & Pottenger.
       
   276 # Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory
       
   277 # (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was
       
   278 # to London.  For example:
       
   279 #
       
   280 #   "Timeball on the ballast office is down.  Dunsink time."
       
   281 #   -- James Joyce, Ulysses
       
   282 
       
   283 # From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26):
       
   284 # Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie.  These include
       
   285 # various relating to legal time, for example:
       
   286 #
       
   287 # ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html
       
   288 #
       
   289 # ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html
       
   290 # ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html
       
   291 #
       
   292 # ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html
       
   293 # ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html
       
   294 # ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html
       
   295 #
       
   296 # ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html
       
   297 # ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html
       
   298 # ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html
       
   299 #
       
   300 # [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is
       
   301 # <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.]
       
   302 #
       
   303 # (These are those I found, but there could be more.  In any case these
       
   304 # should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover
       
   305 # the laws applicable in Ireland.)
       
   306 #
       
   307 # (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined
       
   308 # in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it
       
   309 # is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time
       
   310 # being GMT+1.)
       
   311 
       
   312 # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28):
       
   313 # Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31)
       
   314 # reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time
       
   315 # (CT), equivalent to French civil time.
       
   316 # Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that
       
   317 # trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door)
       
   318 # and Frethun run in CT.
       
   319 # My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities,
       
   320 # the French concession operators and the British civil authorities,
       
   321 # and that the time depends on who you're talking to.
       
   322 # If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason,
       
   323 # I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST.
       
   324 # This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST.
       
   325 
       
   326 # From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
       
   327 # The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
       
   328 # which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
       
   329 # Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
       
   330 # regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
       
   331 # Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
       
   332 # "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST".
       
   333 
       
   334 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   335 # Summer Time Act, 1916
       
   336 Rule	GB-Eire	1916	only	-	May	21	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   337 Rule	GB-Eire	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   338 # S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358
       
   339 Rule	GB-Eire	1917	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   340 Rule	GB-Eire	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   341 # S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274
       
   342 Rule	GB-Eire	1918	only	-	Mar	24	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   343 Rule	GB-Eire	1918	only	-	Sep	30	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   344 # S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297
       
   345 Rule	GB-Eire	1919	only	-	Mar	30	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   346 Rule	GB-Eire	1919	only	-	Sep	29	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   347 # S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458
       
   348 Rule	GB-Eire	1920	only	-	Mar	28	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   349 # S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844
       
   350 Rule	GB-Eire	1920	only	-	Oct	25	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   351 # S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363
       
   352 Rule	GB-Eire	1921	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   353 Rule	GB-Eire	1921	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   354 # S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264
       
   355 Rule	GB-Eire	1922	only	-	Mar	26	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   356 Rule	GB-Eire	1922	only	-	Oct	 8	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   357 # The Summer Time Act, 1922
       
   358 Rule	GB-Eire	1923	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   359 Rule	GB-Eire	1923	1924	-	Sep	Sun>=16	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   360 Rule	GB-Eire	1924	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   361 Rule	GB-Eire	1925	1926	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   362 # The Summer Time Act, 1925
       
   363 Rule	GB-Eire	1925	1938	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   364 Rule	GB-Eire	1927	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   365 Rule	GB-Eire	1928	1929	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   366 Rule	GB-Eire	1930	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   367 Rule	GB-Eire	1931	1932	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   368 Rule	GB-Eire	1933	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   369 Rule	GB-Eire	1934	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   370 Rule	GB-Eire	1935	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   371 Rule	GB-Eire	1936	1937	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   372 Rule	GB-Eire	1938	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   373 Rule	GB-Eire	1939	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   374 # S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379
       
   375 Rule	GB-Eire	1939	only	-	Nov	Sun>=16	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   376 # S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883
       
   377 Rule	GB-Eire	1940	only	-	Feb	Sun>=23	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   378 # S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476
       
   379 Rule	GB-Eire	1941	only	-	May	Sun>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   380 Rule	GB-Eire	1941	1943	-	Aug	Sun>=9	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   381 # S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506
       
   382 Rule	GB-Eire	1942	1944	-	Apr	Sun>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   383 # S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932
       
   384 Rule	GB-Eire	1944	only	-	Sep	Sun>=16	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   385 # S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312
       
   386 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	only	-	Apr	Mon>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   387 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	only	-	Jul	Sun>=9	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   388 # S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208
       
   389 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	1946	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   390 Rule	GB-Eire	1946	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   391 # The Summer Time Act, 1947
       
   392 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Mar	16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   393 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Apr	13	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   394 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Aug	10	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   395 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Nov	 2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   396 # Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495)
       
   397 Rule	GB-Eire	1948	only	-	Mar	14	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   398 Rule	GB-Eire	1948	only	-	Oct	31	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   399 # Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373)
       
   400 Rule	GB-Eire	1949	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   401 Rule	GB-Eire	1949	only	-	Oct	30	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   402 # Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518)
       
   403 # Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430)
       
   404 # Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451)
       
   405 Rule	GB-Eire	1950	1952	-	Apr	Sun>=14	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   406 Rule	GB-Eire	1950	1952	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   407 # revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925
       
   408 Rule	GB-Eire	1953	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   409 Rule	GB-Eire	1953	1960	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   410 Rule	GB-Eire	1954	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   411 Rule	GB-Eire	1955	1956	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   412 Rule	GB-Eire	1957	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   413 Rule	GB-Eire	1958	1959	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   414 Rule	GB-Eire	1960	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   415 # Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71)
       
   416 # Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465)
       
   417 # Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81)
       
   418 Rule	GB-Eire	1961	1963	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   419 Rule	GB-Eire	1961	1968	-	Oct	Sun>=23	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   420 # Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101)
       
   421 # Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201)
       
   422 # Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148)
       
   423 Rule	GB-Eire	1964	1967	-	Mar	Sun>=19	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   424 # Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117)
       
   425 Rule	GB-Eire	1968	only	-	Feb	18	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   426 # The British Standard Time Act, 1968
       
   427 #	(no summer time)
       
   428 # The Summer Time Act, 1972
       
   429 Rule	GB-Eire	1972	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   430 Rule	GB-Eire	1972	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=23	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   431 # Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089)
       
   432 # Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673)
       
   433 # Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223)
       
   434 # Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931)
       
   435 Rule	GB-Eire	1981	1995	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00u	1:00	BST
       
   436 Rule	GB-Eire 1981	1989	-	Oct	Sun>=23	1:00u	0	GMT
       
   437 # Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985)
       
   438 # Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729)
       
   439 # Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798)
       
   440 Rule	GB-Eire 1990	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=22	1:00u	0	GMT
       
   441 # Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982)
       
   442 # See EU for rules starting in 1996.
       
   443 
       
   444 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   445 Zone	Europe/London	-0:01:15 -	LMT	1847 Dec  1 0:00s
       
   446 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
       
   447 			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31 2:00u
       
   448 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
       
   449 			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
       
   450 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Jersey
       
   451 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Guernsey
       
   452 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Isle_of_Man
       
   453 Zone	Europe/Dublin	-0:25:00 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2
       
   454 			-0:25:21 -	DMT	1916 May 21 2:00
       
   455 			-0:25:21 1:00	IST	1916 Oct  1 2:00s
       
   456 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1921 Dec  6 # independence
       
   457 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1940 Feb 25 2:00
       
   458 			 0:00	1:00	IST	1946 Oct  6 2:00
       
   459 			 0:00	-	GMT	1947 Mar 16 2:00
       
   460 			 0:00	1:00	IST	1947 Nov  2 2:00
       
   461 			 0:00	-	GMT	1948 Apr 18 2:00
       
   462 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1968 Oct 27
       
   463 			 1:00	-	IST	1971 Oct 31 2:00u
       
   464 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1996
       
   465 			 0:00	EU	GMT/IST
       
   466 
       
   467 ###############################################################################
       
   468 
       
   469 # Europe
       
   470 
       
   471 # EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC,
       
   472 # Common Market, etc.
       
   473 
       
   474 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   475 Rule	EU	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00u	1:00	S
       
   476 Rule	EU	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   477 Rule	EU	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00u	0	-
       
   478 Rule	EU	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   479 Rule	EU	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00u	1:00	S
       
   480 Rule	EU	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   481 # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002.  See:
       
   482 # <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"
       
   483 # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
       
   484 # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements.
       
   485 # </a>
       
   486 
       
   487 # W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time.
       
   488 Rule	W-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
   489 Rule	W-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   490 Rule	W-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00s	0	-
       
   491 Rule	W-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   492 Rule	W-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
   493 Rule	W-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   494 
       
   495 # Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables.
       
   496 # From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time.
       
   497 Rule	C-Eur	1916	only	-	Apr	30	23:00	1:00	S
       
   498 Rule	C-Eur	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
   499 Rule	C-Eur	1917	1918	-	Apr	Mon>=15	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   500 Rule	C-Eur	1917	1918	-	Sep	Mon>=15	 2:00s	0	-
       
   501 Rule	C-Eur	1940	only	-	Apr	 1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   502 Rule	C-Eur	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   503 Rule	C-Eur	1943	only	-	Mar	29	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   504 Rule	C-Eur	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	 2:00s	0	-
       
   505 Rule	C-Eur	1944	only	-	Apr	 3	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   506 # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
   507 Rule	C-Eur	1944	only	-	Oct	 2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   508 Rule	C-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   509 Rule	C-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   510 Rule	C-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 2:00s	0	-
       
   511 Rule	C-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   512 Rule	C-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   513 Rule	C-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   514 
       
   515 # E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time.
       
   516 Rule	E-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   517 Rule	E-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   518 Rule	E-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   519 Rule	E-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   520 Rule	E-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   521 Rule	E-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   522 
       
   523 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   524 Rule	Russia	1917	only	-	Jul	 1	23:00	1:00	MST	# Moscow Summer Time
       
   525 Rule	Russia	1917	only	-	Dec	28	 0:00	0	MMT	# Moscow Mean Time
       
   526 Rule	Russia	1918	only	-	May	31	22:00	2:00	MDST	# Moscow Double Summer Time
       
   527 Rule	Russia	1918	only	-	Sep	16	 1:00	1:00	MST
       
   528 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	May	31	23:00	2:00	MDST
       
   529 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Jul	 1	 2:00	1:00	S
       
   530 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Aug	16	 0:00	0	-
       
   531 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
   532 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Mar	20	23:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
   533 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   534 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   535 # Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
       
   536 Rule	Russia	1981	1984	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   537 Rule	Russia	1981	1983	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   538 # Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
       
   539 # Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
       
   540 Rule	Russia	1984	1991	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   541 Rule	Russia	1985	1991	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   542 #
       
   543 Rule	Russia	1992	only	-	Mar	lastSat	 23:00	1:00	S
       
   544 Rule	Russia	1992	only	-	Sep	lastSat	 23:00	0	-
       
   545 Rule	Russia	1993	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   546 Rule	Russia	1993	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   547 Rule	Russia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   548 
       
   549 # These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
       
   550 
       
   551 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   552 Zone	WET		0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
   553 Zone	CET		1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT
       
   554 Zone	MET		1:00	C-Eur	ME%sT
       
   555 Zone	EET		2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
   556 
       
   557 # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST
       
   558 # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage.
       
   559 
       
   560 # From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12):
       
   561 # The official German names ... are
       
   562 #
       
   563 #	Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ)         = UTC+01:00
       
   564 #	Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit (MESZ)  = UTC+02:00
       
   565 #
       
   566 # as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz ueber die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG),
       
   567 # 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111)....
       
   568 # I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution
       
   569 #
       
   570 #	Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
       
   571 #	Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit"
       
   572 #	Postfach 3345
       
   573 #	D-38023 Braunschweig
       
   574 #	phone: +49 531 592-0
       
   575 #
       
   576 # ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB
       
   577 # department for time and frequency transmission.  He explained that the
       
   578 # PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as
       
   579 #
       
   580 #	Central European Time (CET)         = UTC+01:00
       
   581 #	Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00
       
   582 
       
   583 
       
   584 # Albania
       
   585 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   586 Rule	Albania	1940	only	-	Jun	16	0:00	1:00	S
       
   587 Rule	Albania	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	3:00	0	-
       
   588 Rule	Albania	1943	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	1:00	S
       
   589 Rule	Albania	1943	only	-	Apr	10	3:00	0	-
       
   590 Rule	Albania	1974	only	-	May	 4	0:00	1:00	S
       
   591 Rule	Albania	1974	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   592 Rule	Albania	1975	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
   593 Rule	Albania	1975	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   594 Rule	Albania	1976	only	-	May	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
   595 Rule	Albania	1976	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
   596 Rule	Albania	1977	only	-	May	 8	0:00	1:00	S
       
   597 Rule	Albania	1977	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   598 Rule	Albania	1978	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	S
       
   599 Rule	Albania	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
   600 Rule	Albania	1979	only	-	May	 5	0:00	1:00	S
       
   601 Rule	Albania	1979	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
       
   602 Rule	Albania	1980	only	-	May	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
   603 Rule	Albania	1980	only	-	Oct	 4	0:00	0	-
       
   604 Rule	Albania	1981	only	-	Apr	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
   605 Rule	Albania	1981	only	-	Sep	27	0:00	0	-
       
   606 Rule	Albania	1982	only	-	May	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
   607 Rule	Albania	1982	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
   608 Rule	Albania	1983	only	-	Apr	18	0:00	1:00	S
       
   609 Rule	Albania	1983	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
   610 Rule	Albania	1984	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
   611 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   612 Zone	Europe/Tirane	1:19:20 -	LMT	1914
       
   613 			1:00	-	CET	1940 Jun 16
       
   614 			1:00	Albania	CE%sT	1984 Jul
       
   615 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   616 
       
   617 # Andorra
       
   618 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   619 Zone	Europe/Andorra	0:06:04 -	LMT	1901
       
   620 			0:00	-	WET	1946 Sep 30
       
   621 			1:00	-	CET	1985 Mar 31 2:00
       
   622 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   623 
       
   624 # Austria
       
   625 
       
   626 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and
       
   627 # 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
       
   628 # Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
       
   629 # date of 1945-04-12 with no time.  For the 1980-04-06 transition
       
   630 # Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00.  Go with the BEV,
       
   631 # and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12.
       
   632 
       
   633 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   634 Rule	Austria	1920	only	-	Apr	 5	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   635 Rule	Austria	1920	only	-	Sep	13	2:00s	0	-
       
   636 Rule	Austria	1946	only	-	Apr	14	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   637 Rule	Austria	1946	1948	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
   638 Rule	Austria	1947	only	-	Apr	 6	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   639 Rule	Austria	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   640 Rule	Austria	1980	only	-	Apr	 6	0:00	1:00	S
       
   641 Rule	Austria	1980	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
   642 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   643 Zone	Europe/Vienna	1:05:20 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
   644 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1920
       
   645 			1:00	Austria	CE%sT	1940 Apr  1 2:00s
       
   646 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00s
       
   647 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Apr 12 2:00s
       
   648 			1:00	-	CET	1946
       
   649 			1:00	Austria	CE%sT	1981
       
   650 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   651 
       
   652 # Belarus
       
   653 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   654 Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
       
   655 			1:50	-	MMT	1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time
       
   656 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
   657 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jun 28
       
   658 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Jul  3
       
   659 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
   660 			3:00	-	MSK	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
   661 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
   662 			2:00	-	EET	1992 Mar 29 0:00s
       
   663 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1992 Sep 27 0:00s
       
   664 			2:00	Russia	EE%sT
       
   665 
       
   666 # Belgium
       
   667 #
       
   668 # From Paul Eggert (1997-07-02):
       
   669 # Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from:
       
   670 #	Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique,
       
   671 #	Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe annee, 1991
       
   672 #	(Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC),
       
   673 #	pp 8-9.
       
   674 # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium:
       
   675 #	Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121.
       
   676 # Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references.
       
   677 # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium.
       
   678 # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect.
       
   679 #
       
   680 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   681 Rule	Belgium	1918	only	-	Mar	 9	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
   682 Rule	Belgium	1918	1919	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
   683 Rule	Belgium	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   684 Rule	Belgium	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   685 Rule	Belgium	1920	only	-	Oct	23	23:00s	0	-
       
   686 Rule	Belgium	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   687 Rule	Belgium	1921	only	-	Oct	25	23:00s	0	-
       
   688 Rule	Belgium	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   689 Rule	Belgium	1922	1927	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
   690 Rule	Belgium	1923	only	-	Apr	21	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   691 Rule	Belgium	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   692 Rule	Belgium	1925	only	-	Apr	 4	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   693 # DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd
       
   694 # Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier),
       
   695 # to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15
       
   696 # changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT.
       
   697 Rule	Belgium	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   698 Rule	Belgium	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   699 Rule	Belgium	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   700 Rule	Belgium	1928	1938	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   701 Rule	Belgium	1929	only	-	Apr	21	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   702 Rule	Belgium	1930	only	-	Apr	13	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   703 Rule	Belgium	1931	only	-	Apr	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   704 Rule	Belgium	1932	only	-	Apr	 3	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   705 Rule	Belgium	1933	only	-	Mar	26	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   706 Rule	Belgium	1934	only	-	Apr	 8	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   707 Rule	Belgium	1935	only	-	Mar	31	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   708 Rule	Belgium	1936	only	-	Apr	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   709 Rule	Belgium	1937	only	-	Apr	 4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   710 Rule	Belgium	1938	only	-	Mar	27	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   711 Rule	Belgium	1939	only	-	Apr	16	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   712 Rule	Belgium	1939	only	-	Nov	19	 2:00s	0	-
       
   713 Rule	Belgium	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   714 Rule	Belgium	1944	only	-	Sep	17	 2:00s	0	-
       
   715 Rule	Belgium	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   716 Rule	Belgium	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 2:00s	0	-
       
   717 Rule	Belgium	1946	only	-	May	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   718 Rule	Belgium	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	 2:00s	0	-
       
   719 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   720 Zone	Europe/Brussels	0:17:30 -	LMT	1880
       
   721 			0:17:30	-	BMT	1892 May  1 12:00 # Brussels MT
       
   722 			0:00	-	WET	1914 Nov  8
       
   723 			1:00	-	CET	1916 May  1  0:00
       
   724 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918 Nov 11 11:00u
       
   725 			0:00	Belgium	WE%sT	1940 May 20  2:00s
       
   726 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep  3
       
   727 			1:00	Belgium	CE%sT	1977
       
   728 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   729 
       
   730 # Bosnia and Herzegovina
       
   731 # see Serbia
       
   732 
       
   733 # Bulgaria
       
   734 #
       
   735 # From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
       
   736 # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says:
       
   737 # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ...
       
   738 # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October
       
   739 #
       
   740 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   741 Rule	Bulg	1979	only	-	Mar	31	23:00	1:00	S
       
   742 Rule	Bulg	1979	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
   743 Rule	Bulg	1980	1982	-	Apr	Sat>=1	23:00	1:00	S
       
   744 Rule	Bulg	1980	only	-	Sep	29	 1:00	0	-
       
   745 Rule	Bulg	1981	only	-	Sep	27	 2:00	0	-
       
   746 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   747 Zone	Europe/Sofia	1:33:16 -	LMT	1880
       
   748 			1:56:56	-	IMT	1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT?
       
   749 			2:00	-	EET	1942 Nov  2  3:00
       
   750 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  3:00
       
   751 			2:00	-	EET	1979 Mar 31 23:00
       
   752 			2:00	Bulg	EE%sT	1982 Sep 26  2:00
       
   753 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1991
       
   754 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
   755 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
   756 
       
   757 # Croatia
       
   758 # see Serbia
       
   759 
       
   760 # Cyprus
       
   761 # Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia.
       
   762 
       
   763 # Czech Republic
       
   764 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   765 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   766 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Nov	18	2:00s	0	-
       
   767 Rule	Czech	1946	only	-	May	 6	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   768 Rule	Czech	1946	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
   769 Rule	Czech	1947	only	-	Apr	20	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   770 Rule	Czech	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   771 Rule	Czech	1949	only	-	Apr	 9	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   772 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   773 Zone	Europe/Prague	0:57:44 -	LMT	1850
       
   774 			0:57:44	-	PMT	1891 Oct     # Prague Mean Time
       
   775 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep 17 2:00s
       
   776 			1:00	Czech	CE%sT	1979
       
   777 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   778 
       
   779 # Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland
       
   780 
       
   781 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26):
       
   782 # http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law
       
   783 # [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01....
       
   784 # The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL
       
   785 # confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29.
       
   786 #
       
   787 # The EU treaty with effect from 1973:
       
   788 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL
       
   789 #
       
   790 # This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes
       
   791 # in subsequenet decrees with the law
       
   792 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL
       
   793 #
       
   794 # It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980.  I have
       
   795 # not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST
       
   796 # changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to
       
   797 # 1980-09-28 at 02:00.  If this is true, this differs slightly from
       
   798 # the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00.  We don't know
       
   799 # when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only
       
   800 # confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981:
       
   801 # The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning
       
   802 # working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which
       
   803 # was suspended on that night):
       
   804 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL
       
   805 
       
   806 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11):
       
   807 # The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between
       
   808 # Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two.
       
   809 
       
   810 # From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11):
       
   811 # Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not
       
   812 # wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980.
       
   813 
       
   814 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   815 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
   816 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	Sep	30	23:00	0	-
       
   817 Rule	Denmark	1940	only	-	May	15	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   818 Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   819 Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Aug	15	 2:00s	0	-
       
   820 Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	May	 1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   821 Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	Sep	 1	 2:00s	0	-
       
   822 Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	May	 4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   823 Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	Aug	10	 2:00s	0	-
       
   824 Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	May	 9	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   825 Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	Aug	 8	 2:00s	0	-
       
   826 #
       
   827 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   828 Zone Europe/Copenhagen	 0:50:20 -	LMT	1890
       
   829 			 0:50:20 -	CMT	1894 Jan  1 # Copenhagen MT
       
   830 			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
   831 			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00
       
   832 			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1980
       
   833 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   834 Zone Atlantic/Faroe	-0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Torshavn
       
   835 			 0:00	-	WET	1981
       
   836 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
   837 #
       
   838 # From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31):
       
   839 # During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in
       
   840 # East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones.
       
   841 # My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard.
       
   842 #
       
   843 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   844 # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01,
       
   845 # and left the EU on 1985-02-01.  It therefore should have been using EU
       
   846 # rules at least through 1984.  Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthab
       
   847 # used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU
       
   848 # rules since at least 1991.  Assume EU rules since 1980.
       
   849 
       
   850 # From Gwillin Law (2001-06-06), citing
       
   851 # <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15),
       
   852 # and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen:
       
   853 #
       
   854 # Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC
       
   855 # is according to the following time line:
       
   856 #
       
   857 # The military zone near Thule	UTC-4
       
   858 # Standard Greenland time	UTC-3
       
   859 # Scoresbysund			UTC-1
       
   860 # Danmarkshavn			UTC
       
   861 #
       
   862 # In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be
       
   863 # introduced.
       
   864 
       
   865 # From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
       
   866 #
       
   867 # I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
       
   868 # the time to clarify the situation in Thule.  Unfortunately, I have
       
   869 # not heard back from them regarding my recent letter.  [But I have
       
   870 # info from earlier correspondence.]
       
   871 #
       
   872 # According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule
       
   873 # Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight
       
   874 # savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time....
       
   875 #
       
   876 # The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund
       
   877 # uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst.
       
   878 # There are just a few stations on this coast, including the
       
   879 # Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th
       
   880 # email.  The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in
       
   881 # Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the
       
   882 # DPC research station at Zackenberg.
       
   883 #
       
   884 # Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use
       
   885 # the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab).
       
   886 #
       
   887 # The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it
       
   888 # includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time
       
   889 # UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules.
       
   890 #
       
   891 # It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and
       
   892 # North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators
       
   893 # maintaining traffic in these areas.  However, the official status of
       
   894 # this area is that it sticks with Godthab time.  This area might be
       
   895 # considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this.
       
   896 
       
   897 # From Rives McDow (2001-11-19):
       
   898 # I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place
       
   899 # there at 2:00 AM.
       
   900 
       
   901 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   902 # From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT;
       
   903 # the 1995 map as like Godthab.
       
   904 # For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996.
       
   905 # startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error,
       
   906 # so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year.
       
   907 # For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules.
       
   908 #
       
   909 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   910 Rule	Thule	1991	1992	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
       
   911 Rule	Thule	1991	1992	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
       
   912 Rule	Thule	1993	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
       
   913 Rule	Thule	1993	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
       
   914 Rule	Thule	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
       
   915 Rule	Thule	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
       
   916 #
       
   917 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   918 Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28
       
   919 			-3:00	-	WGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
   920 			-3:00	EU	WG%sT	1996
       
   921 			0:00	-	GMT
       
   922 Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit
       
   923 			-2:00	-	CGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
   924 			-2:00	C-Eur	CG%sT	1981 Mar 29
       
   925 			-1:00	EU	EG%sT
       
   926 Zone America/Godthab	-3:26:56 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk
       
   927 			-3:00	-	WGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
   928 			-3:00	EU	WG%sT
       
   929 Zone America/Thule	-4:35:08 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
       
   930 			-4:00	Thule	A%sT
       
   931 
       
   932 # Estonia
       
   933 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15):
       
   934 # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards
       
   935 # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it,
       
   936 # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989....
       
   937 #
       
   938 # From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28):
       
   939 # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s,
       
   940 # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:]
       
   941 # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different
       
   942 # (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules
       
   943 # conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia....
       
   944 # A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on
       
   945 # human physiology.  It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to
       
   946 # summer time next spring.''
       
   947 
       
   948 # From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited:
       
   949 # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390">
       
   950 # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law
       
   951 # </a>
       
   952 # refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between
       
   953 # the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22--27, 120).
       
   954 #
       
   955 # I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation
       
   956 # for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg"
       
   957 # (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time).
       
   958 
       
   959 # From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (1999-09-09)
       
   960 # via Steffen Thorsen:
       
   961 # This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time,
       
   962 # a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6....
       
   963 # But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European
       
   964 # Union are still unclear.  In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory
       
   965 # for all member states until 2001.  Brussels has yet to decide what to do
       
   966 # after that.
       
   967 
       
   968 # From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
       
   969 # Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
       
   970 # no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
       
   971 # the year round.  The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
       
   972 
       
   973 # From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
       
   974 # The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
       
   975 # Now we are using again EU rules.
       
   976 #
       
   977 # From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28):
       
   978 # The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.
       
   979 
       
   980 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   981 Zone	Europe/Tallinn	1:39:00	-	LMT	1880
       
   982 			1:39:00	-	TMT	1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
       
   983 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1919 Jul
       
   984 			1:39:00	-	TMT	1921 May
       
   985 			2:00	-	EET	1940 Aug  6
       
   986 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Sep 15
       
   987 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep 22
       
   988 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1989 Mar 26 2:00s
       
   989 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1989 Sep 24 2:00s
       
   990 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998 Sep 22
       
   991 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	1999 Nov  1
       
   992 			2:00	-	EET	2002 Feb 21
       
   993 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
   994 
       
   995 # Finland
       
   996 #
       
   997 # From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC):
       
   998 # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
       
   999 # and it's supposed to change at 4am...
       
  1000 #
       
  1001 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1002 # Shanks & Pottenger say Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time
       
  1003 # since 1981.  Go with Strang instead.
       
  1004 #
       
  1005 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1006 Rule	Finland	1942	only	-	Apr	3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1007 Rule	Finland	1942	only	-	Oct	3	0:00	0	-
       
  1008 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1009 Zone	Europe/Helsinki	1:39:52 -	LMT	1878 May 31
       
  1010 			1:39:52	-	HMT	1921 May    # Helsinki Mean Time
       
  1011 			2:00	Finland	EE%sT	1981 Mar 29 2:00
       
  1012 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1013 
       
  1014 # Aaland Is
       
  1015 Link	Europe/Helsinki	Europe/Mariehamn
       
  1016 
       
  1017 
       
  1018 # France
       
  1019 
       
  1020 # From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20):
       
  1021 #
       
  1022 # Henri Le Corre, Regimes Horaires pour le monde entier, Editions
       
  1023 # Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993
       
  1024 #
       
  1025 # Gabriel, Traite de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Tredaniel editeur,
       
  1026 # Paris, 1991
       
  1027 #
       
  1028 # Francoise Gauquelin, Problemes de l'heure resolus en astrologie,
       
  1029 # Guy tredaniel, Paris 1987
       
  1030 
       
  1031 
       
  1032 #
       
  1033 # Shank & Pottenger seem to use `24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman.
       
  1034 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1035 Rule	France	1916	only	-	Jun	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1036 Rule	France	1916	1919	-	Oct	Sun>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1037 Rule	France	1917	only	-	Mar	24	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1038 Rule	France	1918	only	-	Mar	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1039 Rule	France	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1040 Rule	France	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1041 Rule	France	1920	only	-	Oct	23	23:00s	0	-
       
  1042 Rule	France	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1043 Rule	France	1921	only	-	Oct	25	23:00s	0	-
       
  1044 Rule	France	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1045 # DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st
       
  1046 # Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions
       
  1047 # were Apr 12 and Oct 5.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1048 Rule	France	1922	1938	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1049 Rule	France	1923	only	-	May	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1050 Rule	France	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1051 Rule	France	1925	only	-	Apr	 4	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1052 Rule	France	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1053 Rule	France	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1054 Rule	France	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1055 Rule	France	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1056 Rule	France	1930	only	-	Apr	12	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1057 Rule	France	1931	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1058 Rule	France	1932	only	-	Apr	 2	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1059 Rule	France	1933	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1060 Rule	France	1934	only	-	Apr	 7	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1061 Rule	France	1935	only	-	Mar	30	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1062 Rule	France	1936	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1063 Rule	France	1937	only	-	Apr	 3	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1064 Rule	France	1938	only	-	Mar	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1065 Rule	France	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1066 Rule	France	1939	only	-	Nov	18	23:00s	0	-
       
  1067 Rule	France	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	S
       
  1068 # The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger
       
  1069 # write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations.
       
  1070 # Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez,
       
  1071 # Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La
       
  1072 # Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Decartes,
       
  1073 # Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin,
       
  1074 # Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois,
       
  1075 # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe).
       
  1076 Rule	France	1941	only	-	May	 5	 0:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  1077 # Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00,
       
  1078 # but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12),
       
  1079 # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes
       
  1080 # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT.
       
  1081 Rule	France	1941	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1082 Rule	France	1942	only	-	Mar	 9	 0:00	2:00	M
       
  1083 Rule	France	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1084 Rule	France	1943	only	-	Mar	29	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1085 Rule	France	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1086 Rule	France	1944	only	-	Apr	 3	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1087 Rule	France	1944	only	-	Oct	 8	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1088 Rule	France	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1089 Rule	France	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 3:00	0	-
       
  1090 # Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00;
       
  1091 # go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT.
       
  1092 Rule	France	1976	only	-	Mar	28	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1093 Rule	France	1976	only	-	Sep	26	 1:00	0	-
       
  1094 # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman 0:09:05,
       
  1095 # but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21.
       
  1096 # Go with Howse.  Howse writes that the time in France was officially based
       
  1097 # on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC.
       
  1098 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1099 Zone	Europe/Paris	0:09:21 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15  0:01
       
  1100 			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11  0:01  # Paris MT
       
  1101 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre.
       
  1102 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1940 Jun 14 23:00
       
  1103 # Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation;
       
  1104 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1105 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 25
       
  1106 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1945 Sep 16  3:00
       
  1107 			1:00	France	CE%sT	1977
       
  1108 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1109 
       
  1110 # Germany
       
  1111 
       
  1112 # From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29):
       
  1113 # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische
       
  1114 # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916.
       
  1115 # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
       
  1116 
       
  1117 # From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23):
       
  1118 # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a
       
  1119 # href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/">
       
  1120 # General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>.
       
  1121 
       
  1122 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):
       
  1123 # <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf">
       
  1124 # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
       
  1125 # However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
       
  1126 # this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4.
       
  1127 
       
  1128 
       
  1129 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1130 Rule	Germany	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1131 Rule	Germany	1945	only	-	May	24	2:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  1132 Rule	Germany	1945	only	-	Sep	24	3:00	1:00	S
       
  1133 Rule	Germany	1945	only	-	Nov	18	2:00s	0	-
       
  1134 Rule	Germany	1946	only	-	Apr	14	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1135 Rule	Germany	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	0	-
       
  1136 Rule	Germany	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1137 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	Apr	 6	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1138 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	May	11	2:00s	2:00	M
       
  1139 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	Jun	29	3:00	1:00	S
       
  1140 Rule	Germany	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1141 Rule	Germany	1949	only	-	Apr	10	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1142 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1143 Zone	Europe/Berlin	0:53:28 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
  1144 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr 2 2:00
       
  1145 			1:00	Germany	CE%sT	1980
       
  1146 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1147 
       
  1148 # Georgia
       
  1149 # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi.
       
  1150 # Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni)
       
  1151 # is in Europe.  Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part.
       
  1152 
       
  1153 # Gibraltar
       
  1154 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1155 Zone Europe/Gibraltar	-0:21:24 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2 0:00s
       
  1156 			0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1957 Apr 14 2:00
       
  1157 			1:00	-	CET	1982
       
  1158 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1159 
       
  1160 # Greece
       
  1161 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1162 # Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1163 Rule	Greece	1932	only	-	Jul	 7	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1164 Rule	Greece	1932	only	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1165 # Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1166 Rule	Greece	1941	only	-	Apr	 7	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1167 # Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1168 Rule	Greece	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	3:00	0	-
       
  1169 Rule	Greece	1943	only	-	Mar	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1170 Rule	Greece	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	0:00	0	-
       
  1171 # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1172 Rule	Greece	1952	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1173 Rule	Greece	1952	only	-	Nov	 2	0:00	0	-
       
  1174 Rule	Greece	1975	only	-	Apr	12	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1175 Rule	Greece	1975	only	-	Nov	26	0:00s	0	-
       
  1176 Rule	Greece	1976	only	-	Apr	11	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1177 Rule	Greece	1976	only	-	Oct	10	2:00s	0	-
       
  1178 Rule	Greece	1977	1978	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1179 Rule	Greece	1977	only	-	Sep	26	2:00s	0	-
       
  1180 Rule	Greece	1978	only	-	Sep	24	4:00	0	-
       
  1181 Rule	Greece	1979	only	-	Apr	 1	9:00	1:00	S
       
  1182 Rule	Greece	1979	only	-	Sep	29	2:00	0	-
       
  1183 Rule	Greece	1980	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1184 Rule	Greece	1980	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
  1185 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1186 Zone	Europe/Athens	1:34:52 -	LMT	1895 Sep 14
       
  1187 			1:34:52	-	AMT	1916 Jul 28 0:01     # Athens MT
       
  1188 			2:00	Greece	EE%sT	1941 Apr 30
       
  1189 			1:00	Greece	CE%sT	1944 Apr  4
       
  1190 			2:00	Greece	EE%sT	1981
       
  1191 			# Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981;
       
  1192 			# go with EU instead, since Greece joined it on Jan 1.
       
  1193 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1194 
       
  1195 # Hungary
       
  1196 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1197 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Apr	 1	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1198 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Sep	29	 3:00	0	-
       
  1199 Rule	Hungary	1919	only	-	Apr	15	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1200 Rule	Hungary	1919	only	-	Sep	15	 3:00	0	-
       
  1201 Rule	Hungary	1920	only	-	Apr	 5	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1202 Rule	Hungary	1920	only	-	Sep	30	 3:00	0	-
       
  1203 Rule	Hungary	1945	only	-	May	 1	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1204 Rule	Hungary	1945	only	-	Nov	 3	 0:00	0	-
       
  1205 Rule	Hungary	1946	only	-	Mar	31	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1206 Rule	Hungary	1946	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1207 Rule	Hungary	1947	1949	-	Apr	Sun>=4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1208 Rule	Hungary	1950	only	-	Apr	17	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1209 Rule	Hungary	1950	only	-	Oct	23	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1210 Rule	Hungary	1954	1955	-	May	23	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1211 Rule	Hungary	1954	1955	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	0	-
       
  1212 Rule	Hungary	1956	only	-	Jun	Sun>=1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1213 Rule	Hungary	1956	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
  1214 Rule	Hungary	1957	only	-	Jun	Sun>=1	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1215 Rule	Hungary	1957	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 3:00	0	-
       
  1216 Rule	Hungary	1980	only	-	Apr	 6	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1217 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1218 Zone	Europe/Budapest	1:16:20 -	LMT	1890 Oct
       
  1219 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918
       
  1220 			1:00	Hungary	CE%sT	1941 Apr  6  2:00
       
  1221 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  1 23:00
       
  1222 			1:00	Hungary	CE%sT	1980 Sep 28  2:00s
       
  1223 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1224 
       
  1225 # Iceland
       
  1226 #
       
  1227 # From Adam David (1993-11-06):
       
  1228 # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
       
  1229 #
       
  1230 # (1993-12-05):
       
  1231 # This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of
       
  1232 # Iceland Almanak.
       
  1233 #
       
  1234 # From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour
       
  1235 # behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts
       
  1236 # of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavik mean solar time which
       
  1237 # was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT.
       
  1238 #
       
  1239 # "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks
       
  1240 # of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the
       
  1241 # time the norsemen first settled Iceland.  The first day of winter is always
       
  1242 # Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
       
  1243 #
       
  1244 # (1993-12-10):
       
  1245 # I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the
       
  1246 # beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus
       
  1247 # to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question.
       
  1248 #	the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day
       
  1249 #	(old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday.
       
  1250 # St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style"
       
  1251 # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
       
  1252 # might mean something else (???).
       
  1253 #
       
  1254 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1255 # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks & Pottenger, and Whitman disagree on many points.
       
  1256 # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks & Pottenger, namely
       
  1257 # that Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that.
       
  1258 #
       
  1259 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1260 Rule	Iceland	1917	1918	-	Feb	19	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1261 Rule	Iceland	1917	only	-	Oct	21	 1:00	0	-
       
  1262 Rule	Iceland	1918	only	-	Nov	16	 1:00	0	-
       
  1263 Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Apr	29	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1264 Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Nov	29	 2:00	0	-
       
  1265 Rule	Iceland	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	S
       
  1266 Rule	Iceland	1940	only	-	Nov	 3	 2:00	0	-
       
  1267 Rule	Iceland	1941	only	-	Mar	 2	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1268 Rule	Iceland	1941	only	-	Nov	 2	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1269 Rule	Iceland	1942	only	-	Mar	 8	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1270 Rule	Iceland	1942	only	-	Oct	25	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1271 # 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter
       
  1272 Rule	Iceland	1943	1946	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1273 Rule	Iceland	1943	1948	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1274 # 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter
       
  1275 Rule	Iceland	1947	1967	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1276 # 1949 Oct transition delayed by 1 week
       
  1277 Rule	Iceland	1949	only	-	Oct	30	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1278 Rule	Iceland	1950	1966	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1279 Rule	Iceland	1967	only	-	Oct	29	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1280 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1281 Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik	-1:27:24 -	LMT	1837
       
  1282 			-1:27:48 -	RMT	1908 # Reykjavik Mean Time?
       
  1283 			-1:00	Iceland	IS%sT	1968 Apr 7 1:00s
       
  1284 			 0:00	-	GMT
       
  1285 
       
  1286 # Italy
       
  1287 #
       
  1288 # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
       
  1289 # Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893,
       
  1290 # called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32).
       
  1291 # During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time.
       
  1292 # But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff,
       
  1293 # so record only the time in Rome.
       
  1294 #
       
  1295 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1296 # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks & Pottenger, Whitman, and
       
  1297 # F. Pollastri
       
  1298 # <a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html">
       
  1299 # Day-light Saving Time in Italy (2006-02-03)
       
  1300 # </a>
       
  1301 # (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute
       
  1302 # publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows:
       
  1303 #
       
  1304 # year	FP	Shanks&P. (S)	Whitman (W)	Go with:
       
  1305 # 1916	06-03	06-03 24:00	06-03 00:00	FP & W
       
  1306 #	09-30	09-30 24:00	09-30 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1307 # 1917	04-01	03-31 24:00	03-31 00:00	FP & S
       
  1308 #	09-30	09-29 24:00	09-30 01:00	FP & W
       
  1309 # 1918	03-09	03-09 24:00	03-09 00:00	FP & S
       
  1310 #	10-06	10-05 24:00	10-06 01:00	FP & W
       
  1311 # 1919	03-01	03-01 24:00	03-01 00:00	FP & S
       
  1312 #	10-04	10-04 24:00	10-04 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1313 # 1920	03-20	03-20 24:00	03-20 00:00	FP & S
       
  1314 #	09-18	09-18 24:00	10-01 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1315 # 1944	04-02	04-03 02:00			S (see C-Eur)
       
  1316 #	09-16	10-02 03:00			FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1317 # 1945	09-14	09-16 24:00			FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1318 # 1970	05-21	05-31 00:00			S
       
  1319 #	09-20	09-27 00:00			S
       
  1320 #
       
  1321 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1322 Rule	Italy	1916	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1323 Rule	Italy	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1324 Rule	Italy	1917	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1325 Rule	Italy	1917	only	-	Sep	30	0:00s	0	-
       
  1326 Rule	Italy	1918	only	-	Mar	10	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1327 Rule	Italy	1918	1919	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1328 Rule	Italy	1919	only	-	Mar	 2	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1329 Rule	Italy	1920	only	-	Mar	21	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1330 Rule	Italy	1920	only	-	Sep	19	0:00s	0	-
       
  1331 Rule	Italy	1940	only	-	Jun	15	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1332 Rule	Italy	1944	only	-	Sep	17	0:00s	0	-
       
  1333 Rule	Italy	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1334 Rule	Italy	1945	only	-	Sep	15	0:00s	0	-
       
  1335 Rule	Italy	1946	only	-	Mar	17	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1336 Rule	Italy	1946	only	-	Oct	 6	2:00s	0	-
       
  1337 Rule	Italy	1947	only	-	Mar	16	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1338 Rule	Italy	1947	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00s	0	-
       
  1339 Rule	Italy	1948	only	-	Feb	29	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1340 Rule	Italy	1948	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00s	0	-
       
  1341 Rule	Italy	1966	1968	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1342 Rule	Italy	1966	1969	-	Sep	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
       
  1343 Rule	Italy	1969	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1344 Rule	Italy	1970	only	-	May	31	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1345 Rule	Italy	1970	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  1346 Rule	Italy	1971	1972	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1347 Rule	Italy	1971	only	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00	0	-
       
  1348 Rule	Italy	1972	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1349 Rule	Italy	1973	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1350 Rule	Italy	1973	1974	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  1351 Rule	Italy	1974	only	-	May	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1352 Rule	Italy	1975	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1353 Rule	Italy	1975	1977	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00s	0	-
       
  1354 Rule	Italy	1976	only	-	May	30	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1355 Rule	Italy	1977	1979	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1356 Rule	Italy	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1357 Rule	Italy	1979	only	-	Sep	30	0:00s	0	-
       
  1358 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1359 Zone	Europe/Rome	0:49:56 -	LMT	1866 Sep 22
       
  1360 			0:49:56	-	RMT	1893 Nov  1 0:00s # Rome Mean
       
  1361 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
  1362 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Jul
       
  1363 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1980
       
  1364 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1365 
       
  1366 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/Vatican
       
  1367 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
       
  1368 
       
  1369 # Latvia
       
  1370 
       
  1371 # From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17):
       
  1372 
       
  1373 # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy
       
  1374 # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the
       
  1375 # correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about
       
  1376 # changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981....
       
  1377 #
       
  1378 # Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
       
  1379 # according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
       
  1380 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
       
  1381 # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00)
       
  1382 # and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00).
       
  1383 #
       
  1384 # Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
       
  1385 # according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
       
  1386 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
       
  1387 # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
       
  1388 # (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of
       
  1389 # September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day).
       
  1390 #
       
  1391 # Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
       
  1392 # according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
       
  1393 # ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR,
       
  1394 # Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the
       
  1395 # time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia
       
  1396 # transition to summer time is performed on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
       
  1397 # (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour forward.  The end of
       
  1398 # daylight saving time is performed on the last Sunday of September at 03:00
       
  1399 # (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour backward. Exception is
       
  1400 # 1989-03-26, when we must not turn the hands of the clock....
       
  1401 #
       
  1402 # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia of
       
  1403 # 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of
       
  1404 # daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union.
       
  1405 
       
  1406 # From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
       
  1407 # This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in
       
  1408 # <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm">
       
  1409 # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of
       
  1410 # 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only).
       
  1411 
       
  1412 # <a href="http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html">
       
  1413 # From RFE/RL Newsline (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow:
       
  1414 # </a>
       
  1415 # The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will
       
  1416 # institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported.
       
  1417 # Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their
       
  1418 # clocks one hour in the spring....
       
  1419 # Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis noted that Latvia had too few
       
  1420 # daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European
       
  1421 # Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving
       
  1422 # time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government
       
  1423 # urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it
       
  1424 # appears that they will not do so....
       
  1425 
       
  1426 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1427 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1428 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1429 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1430 Zone	Europe/Riga	1:36:24	-	LMT	1880
       
  1431 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1918 Apr 15 2:00 #Riga Mean Time
       
  1432 			1:36:24	1:00	LST	1918 Sep 16 3:00 #Latvian Summer
       
  1433 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1919 Apr  1 2:00
       
  1434 			1:36:24	1:00	LST	1919 May 22 3:00
       
  1435 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1926 May 11
       
  1436 			2:00	-	EET	1940 Aug  5
       
  1437 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jul
       
  1438 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct 13
       
  1439 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s
       
  1440 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s
       
  1441 			2:00	Latvia	EE%sT	1997 Jan 21
       
  1442 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2000 Feb 29
       
  1443 			2:00	-	EET	2001 Jan  2
       
  1444 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1445 
       
  1446 # Liechtenstein
       
  1447 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1448 Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:38:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
       
  1449 			1:00	-	CET	1981
       
  1450 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1451 
       
  1452 # Lithuania
       
  1453 
       
  1454 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
       
  1455 # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
       
  1456 # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
       
  1457 
       
  1458 # From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07):
       
  1459 # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
       
  1460 # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
       
  1461 
       
  1462 # From <a href="http://www.elta.lt/">ELTA</a> No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29),
       
  1463 # via Steffen Thorsen:
       
  1464 # Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours)
       
  1465 # to be valid here starting from October 31,
       
  1466 # as decided by the national government on Wednesday....
       
  1467 # The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a
       
  1468 # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was
       
  1469 # already done by Estonia.
       
  1470 
       
  1471 # From the <a href="http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm">
       
  1472 # Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism
       
  1473 # </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving.
       
  1474 
       
  1475 # From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07):
       
  1476 # As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will
       
  1477 # observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid
       
  1478 # down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its
       
  1479 # neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of
       
  1480 # 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at
       
  1481 # http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm
       
  1482 
       
  1483 
       
  1484 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1485 Zone	Europe/Vilnius	1:41:16	-	LMT	1880
       
  1486 			1:24:00	-	WMT	1917	    # Warsaw Mean Time
       
  1487 			1:35:36	-	KMT	1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time
       
  1488 			1:00	-	CET	1920 Jul 12
       
  1489 			2:00	-	EET	1920 Oct  9
       
  1490 			1:00	-	CET	1940 Aug  3
       
  1491 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jun 24
       
  1492 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug
       
  1493 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  1494 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
  1495 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998
       
  1496 			2:00	-	EET	1998 Mar 29 1:00u
       
  1497 			1:00	EU	CE%sT	1999 Oct 31 1:00u
       
  1498 			2:00	-	EET	2003 Jan  1
       
  1499 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1500 
       
  1501 # Luxembourg
       
  1502 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways;
       
  1503 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1504 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1505 Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1506 Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  1507 Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Apr	28	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1508 Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Sep	17	 1:00	0	-
       
  1509 Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Apr	Mon>=15	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1510 Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Sep	Mon>=15	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1511 Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1512 Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Oct	 5	 3:00	0	-
       
  1513 Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1514 Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Oct	24	 2:00	0	-
       
  1515 Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1516 Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Oct	26	 2:00	0	-
       
  1517 Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1518 Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
       
  1519 Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Apr	21	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1520 Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 2:00	0	-
       
  1521 Rule	Lux	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1522 Rule	Lux	1924	1928	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
       
  1523 Rule	Lux	1925	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1524 Rule	Lux	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1525 Rule	Lux	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1526 Rule	Lux	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1527 Rule	Lux	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1528 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1529 Zone Europe/Luxembourg	0:24:36 -	LMT	1904 Jun
       
  1530 			1:00	Lux	CE%sT	1918 Nov 25
       
  1531 			0:00	Lux	WE%sT	1929 Oct  6 2:00s
       
  1532 			0:00	Belgium	WE%sT	1940 May 14 3:00
       
  1533 			1:00	C-Eur	WE%sT	1944 Sep 18 3:00
       
  1534 			1:00	Belgium	CE%sT	1977
       
  1535 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1536 
       
  1537 # Macedonia
       
  1538 # see Serbia
       
  1539 
       
  1540 # Malta
       
  1541 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1542 Rule	Malta	1973	only	-	Mar	31	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1543 Rule	Malta	1973	only	-	Sep	29	0:00s	0	-
       
  1544 Rule	Malta	1974	only	-	Apr	21	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1545 Rule	Malta	1974	only	-	Sep	16	0:00s	0	-
       
  1546 Rule	Malta	1975	1979	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1547 Rule	Malta	1975	1980	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
       
  1548 Rule	Malta	1980	only	-	Mar	31	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1549 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1550 Zone	Europe/Malta	0:58:04 -	LMT	1893 Nov  2 0:00s # Valletta
       
  1551 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
  1552 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00s
       
  1553 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1973 Mar 31
       
  1554 			1:00	Malta	CE%sT	1981
       
  1555 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1556 
       
  1557 # Moldova
       
  1558 
       
  1559 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1560 # A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write
       
  1561 # that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00.
       
  1562 # However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence
       
  1563 # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree).
       
  1564 # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area
       
  1565 # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time.
       
  1566 # But [two people] separately reported via
       
  1567 # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau.
       
  1568 # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now.
       
  1569 
       
  1570 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1571 Zone	Europe/Chisinau	1:55:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  1572 			1:55	-	CMT	1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT
       
  1573 			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT
       
  1574 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1940 Aug 15
       
  1575 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1941 Jul 17
       
  1576 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 24
       
  1577 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  1578 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 May 6
       
  1579 			2:00	-	EET	1991
       
  1580 			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992
       
  1581 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
  1582 # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
       
  1583 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1584 
       
  1585 # Monaco
       
  1586 # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
       
  1587 # more precise 0:09:21.
       
  1588 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1589 Zone	Europe/Monaco	0:29:32 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15
       
  1590 			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11    # Paris Mean Time
       
  1591 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1945 Sep 16 3:00
       
  1592 			1:00	France	CE%sT	1977
       
  1593 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1594 
       
  1595 # Montenegro
       
  1596 # see Serbia
       
  1597 
       
  1598 # Netherlands
       
  1599 
       
  1600 # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940,
       
  1601 # but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1602 
       
  1603 # However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01):
       
  1604 # Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00
       
  1605 # Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including
       
  1606 # the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time
       
  1607 # (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the
       
  1608 # common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was
       
  1609 # not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law.
       
  1610 # On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and
       
  1611 # was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd").
       
  1612 #
       
  1613 # (2001-04-08):
       
  1614 # 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to
       
  1615 # observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common
       
  1616 # practice of following Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1617 #
       
  1618 # (2001-04-09):
       
  1619 # In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the
       
  1620 # municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe
       
  1621 # Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was
       
  1622 # actually followed.
       
  1623 #
       
  1624 # From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to
       
  1625 # observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of
       
  1626 # Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most
       
  1627 # places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically
       
  1628 # adopted Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1629 #
       
  1630 # Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety
       
  1631 # of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it
       
  1632 # was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe
       
  1633 # Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1634 
       
  1635 # The data before 1945 are taken from
       
  1636 # <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm>.
       
  1637 
       
  1638 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1639 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	NST	# Netherlands Summer Time
       
  1640 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	AMT	# Amsterdam Mean Time
       
  1641 Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Apr	16	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1642 Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1643 Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Apr	Mon>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1644 Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Sep	lastMon	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1645 Rule	Neth	1922	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1646 Rule	Neth	1922	1936	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1647 Rule	Neth	1923	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1648 Rule	Neth	1924	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1649 Rule	Neth	1925	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1650 # From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week
       
  1651 # in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend.
       
  1652 Rule	Neth	1926	1931	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1653 Rule	Neth	1932	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1654 Rule	Neth	1933	1936	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1655 Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1656 Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1657 Rule	Neth	1937	1939	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	-
       
  1658 Rule	Neth	1938	1939	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1659 Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1660 Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Sep	16	2:00s	0	-
       
  1661 #
       
  1662 # Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 exactly, but the .13 is omitted
       
  1663 # below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer.
       
  1664 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1665 Zone Europe/Amsterdam	0:19:32 -	LMT	1835
       
  1666 			0:19:32	Neth	%s	1937 Jul  1
       
  1667 			0:20	Neth	NE%sT	1940 May 16 0:00 # Dutch Time
       
  1668 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00
       
  1669 			1:00	Neth	CE%sT	1977
       
  1670 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1671 
       
  1672 # Norway
       
  1673 # http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks &
       
  1674 # Pottenger.
       
  1675 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1676 Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	May	22	1:00	1:00	S
       
  1677 Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
       
  1678 Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1679 Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1680 Rule	Norway	1959	1964	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1681 Rule	Norway	1959	1965	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
       
  1682 Rule	Norway	1965	only	-	Apr	25	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1683 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1684 Zone	Europe/Oslo	0:43:00 -	LMT	1895 Jan  1
       
  1685 			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1940 Aug 10 23:00
       
  1686 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
       
  1687 			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1980
       
  1688 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1689 
       
  1690 # Svalbard & Jan Mayen
       
  1691 
       
  1692 # From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01):
       
  1693 # Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and
       
  1694 # Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the
       
  1695 # time they were declared as parts of Norway.  Svalbard was declared
       
  1696 # as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan
       
  1697 # Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From
       
  1698 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html and
       
  1699 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html).  The law/regulation
       
  1700 # for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came
       
  1701 # into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a
       
  1702 # part of this law since 1925/1930. (From
       
  1703 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html ) I have not been
       
  1704 # able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100)
       
  1705 # before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabitated" since 1921 by
       
  1706 # Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever
       
  1707 # since 1921.  Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since
       
  1708 # before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere
       
  1709 # between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive).
       
  1710 
       
  1711 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01):
       
  1712 #
       
  1713 # Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II,
       
  1714 # so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was
       
  1715 # keeping Berlin time.
       
  1716 #
       
  1717 # <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists
       
  1718 # burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in
       
  1719 # 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite
       
  1720 # frequent air ttacks from Germans.  In 1943 the Americans established a
       
  1721 # radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City".  Possibly
       
  1722 # the UTC offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that
       
  1723 # Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules.
       
  1724 #
       
  1725 # Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an
       
  1726 # Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says
       
  1727 # <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>).  The Svalbard FAQ
       
  1728 # <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were
       
  1729 # expelled on 1942-05-14.  However, small parties of Germans did return,
       
  1730 # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954)
       
  1731 # <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html>
       
  1732 # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named
       
  1733 # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945.
       
  1734 #
       
  1735 # All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970.  Unless we can
       
  1736 # come up with more definitive info about the timekeeping during the
       
  1737 # war years it's probably best just do do the following for now:
       
  1738 Link	Europe/Oslo	Arctic/Longyearbyen
       
  1739 Link	Europe/Oslo	Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
       
  1740 
       
  1741 # Poland
       
  1742 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1743 Rule	Poland	1918	1919	-	Sep	16	2:00s	0	-
       
  1744 Rule	Poland	1919	only	-	Apr	15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1745 Rule	Poland	1944	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1746 # Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1747 Rule	Poland	1944	only	-	Oct	 4	2:00	0	-
       
  1748 # For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1749 Rule	Poland	1945	only	-	Apr	29	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1750 Rule	Poland	1945	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1751 # For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski,
       
  1752 # Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U.,
       
  1753 # <http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1>
       
  1754 # Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference.
       
  1755 # He also gives these further references:
       
  1756 # Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm>
       
  1757 # Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf>
       
  1758 Rule	Poland	1946	only	-	Apr	14	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1759 Rule	Poland	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	0	-
       
  1760 Rule	Poland	1947	only	-	May	 4	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1761 Rule	Poland	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1762 Rule	Poland	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1763 Rule	Poland	1949	only	-	Apr	10	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1764 Rule	Poland	1957	only	-	Jun	 2	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1765 Rule	Poland	1957	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  1766 Rule	Poland	1958	only	-	Mar	30	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1767 Rule	Poland	1959	only	-	May	31	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1768 Rule	Poland	1959	1961	-	Oct	Sun>=1	1:00s	0	-
       
  1769 Rule	Poland	1960	only	-	Apr	 3	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1770 Rule	Poland	1961	1964	-	May	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1771 Rule	Poland	1962	1964	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  1772 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1773 Zone	Europe/Warsaw	1:24:00 -	LMT	1880
       
  1774 			1:24:00	-	WMT	1915 Aug  5   # Warsaw Mean Time
       
  1775 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918 Sep 16 3:00
       
  1776 			2:00	Poland	EE%sT	1922 Jun
       
  1777 			1:00	Poland	CE%sT	1940 Jun 23 2:00
       
  1778 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct
       
  1779 			1:00	Poland	CE%sT	1977
       
  1780 			1:00	W-Eur	CE%sT	1988
       
  1781 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1782 
       
  1783 # Portugal
       
  1784 #
       
  1785 # From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12):
       
  1786 # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
       
  1787 # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC.
       
  1788 #
       
  1789 # Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve
       
  1790 # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring.
       
  1791 # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter.
       
  1792 #
       
  1793 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12):
       
  1794 # IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions
       
  1795 # at 02:00u, not 01:00u.  Assume that these are typos.
       
  1796 # IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00.
       
  1797 # IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00.
       
  1798 # Guess that the Azores changed to EU rules in 1992 (since that's when Portugal
       
  1799 # harmonized with the EU), and that they stayed +0:00 that winter.
       
  1800 #
       
  1801 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1802 # DSH writes that despite Decree 1,469 (1915), the change to the clocks was not
       
  1803 # done every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules.
       
  1804 # Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1805 Rule	Port	1916	only	-	Jun	17	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1806 # Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1807 Rule	Port	1916	only	-	Nov	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  1808 Rule	Port	1917	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1809 Rule	Port	1917	1921	-	Oct	14	23:00s	0	-
       
  1810 Rule	Port	1918	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1811 Rule	Port	1919	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1812 Rule	Port	1920	only	-	Feb	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1813 Rule	Port	1921	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1814 Rule	Port	1924	only	-	Apr	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1815 Rule	Port	1924	only	-	Oct	14	23:00s	0	-
       
  1816 Rule	Port	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1817 Rule	Port	1926	1929	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1818 Rule	Port	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1819 Rule	Port	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1820 Rule	Port	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1821 Rule	Port	1931	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1822 # Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1823 Rule	Port	1931	1932	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1824 Rule	Port	1932	only	-	Apr	 2	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1825 Rule	Port	1934	only	-	Apr	 7	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1826 # Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1827 Rule	Port	1934	1938	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1828 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman.
       
  1829 Rule	Port	1935	only	-	Mar	30	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1830 Rule	Port	1936	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1831 # Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1832 Rule	Port	1937	only	-	Apr	 3	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1833 Rule	Port	1938	only	-	Mar	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1834 Rule	Port	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1835 # Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1836 Rule	Port	1939	only	-	Nov	18	23:00s	0	-
       
  1837 Rule	Port	1940	only	-	Feb	24	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1838 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman.
       
  1839 Rule	Port	1940	1941	-	Oct	 5	23:00s	0	-
       
  1840 Rule	Port	1941	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1841 Rule	Port	1942	1945	-	Mar	Sat>=8	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1842 Rule	Port	1942	only	-	Apr	25	22:00s	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  1843 Rule	Port	1942	only	-	Aug	15	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  1844 Rule	Port	1942	1945	-	Oct	Sat>=24	23:00s	0	-
       
  1845 Rule	Port	1943	only	-	Apr	17	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  1846 Rule	Port	1943	1945	-	Aug	Sat>=25	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  1847 Rule	Port	1944	1945	-	Apr	Sat>=21	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  1848 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1849 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1850 Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1851 Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1852 # Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman.
       
  1853 # Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1854 Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1855 Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1856 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Mar	27	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1857 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Sep	25	 0:00s	0	-
       
  1858 Rule	Port	1978	1979	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1859 Rule	Port	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00s	0	-
       
  1860 Rule	Port	1979	1982	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1861 Rule	Port	1980	only	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1862 Rule	Port	1981	1982	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1863 Rule	Port	1983	only	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1864 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1865 # Shanks & Pottenger say the transition from LMT to WET occurred 1911-05-24;
       
  1866 # Willett says 1912-01-01.  Go with Willett.
       
  1867 Zone	Europe/Lisbon	-0:36:32 -	LMT	1884
       
  1868 			-0:36:32 -	LMT	1912 Jan  1  # Lisbon Mean Time
       
  1869 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00
       
  1870 			 1:00	-	CET	1976 Sep 26 1:00
       
  1871 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  1872 			 0:00	W-Eur	WE%sT	1992 Sep 27 1:00s
       
  1873 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT	1996 Mar 31 1:00u
       
  1874 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  1875 Zone Atlantic/Azores	-1:42:40 -	LMT	1884		# Ponta Delgada
       
  1876 			-1:54:32 -	HMT	1911 May 24  # Horta Mean Time
       
  1877 			-2:00	Port	AZO%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00 # Azores Time
       
  1878 			-1:00	Port	AZO%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  1879 			-1:00	W-Eur	AZO%sT	1992 Sep 27 1:00s
       
  1880 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT	1993 Mar 28 1:00u
       
  1881 			-1:00	EU	AZO%sT
       
  1882 Zone Atlantic/Madeira	-1:07:36 -	LMT	1884		# Funchal
       
  1883 			-1:07:36 -	FMT	1911 May 24  # Funchal Mean Time
       
  1884 			-1:00	Port	MAD%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00 # Madeira Time
       
  1885 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  1886 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  1887 
       
  1888 # Romania
       
  1889 #
       
  1890 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07):
       
  1891 # <a href="http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html">
       
  1892 # Nine O'clock</a> (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at
       
  1893 # 04:00 local time in fall 1998.  For lack of better info,
       
  1894 # assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997,
       
  1895 # the same year as Bulgaria.
       
  1896 #
       
  1897 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1898 Rule	Romania	1932	only	-	May	21	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1899 Rule	Romania	1932	1939	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 0:00s	0	-
       
  1900 Rule	Romania	1933	1939	-	Apr	Sun>=2	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1901 Rule	Romania	1979	only	-	May	27	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1902 Rule	Romania	1979	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
  1903 Rule	Romania	1980	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1904 Rule	Romania	1980	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
       
  1905 Rule	Romania	1991	1993	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1906 Rule	Romania	1991	1993	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00s	0	-
       
  1907 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1908 Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
       
  1909 			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24	# Bucharest MT
       
  1910 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1981 Mar 29 2:00s
       
  1911 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1991
       
  1912 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1994
       
  1913 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
  1914 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1915 
       
  1916 # Russia
       
  1917 
       
  1918 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1919 # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations.
       
  1920 # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991,
       
  1921 # are from Andrey A. Chernov.  The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger,
       
  1922 # except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat
       
  1923 # 23:00, not Sun 02:00s.
       
  1924 #
       
  1925 # From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29):
       
  1926 # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
       
  1927 # I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
       
  1928 # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
       
  1929 # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch.
       
  1930 #
       
  1931 # From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04):
       
  1932 # `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with
       
  1933 # UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group)....
       
  1934 # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor
       
  1935 # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there.
       
  1936 #
       
  1937 # From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30):
       
  1938 # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from
       
  1939 # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ...
       
  1940 # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located.
       
  1941 #
       
  1942 # For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from
       
  1943 # John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07):
       
  1944 # News--often false--is spread by word of mouth.  A rumor that it was
       
  1945 # time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with
       
  1946 # the rest of Russia for two weeks--even soldiers stationed here began
       
  1947 # enforcing curfew at the wrong time.
       
  1948 #
       
  1949 # From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05):
       
  1950 # There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in
       
  1951 # UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade.  I start with the
       
  1952 # SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan
       
  1953 # until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok
       
  1954 # since September 1997....  Although the Kuril Islands are
       
  1955 # administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have
       
  1956 # remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan.
       
  1957 #
       
  1958 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1959 #
       
  1960 # Kaliningradskaya oblast'.
       
  1961 Zone Europe/Kaliningrad	 1:22:00 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
  1962 			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945
       
  1963 			 2:00	Poland	CE%sT	1946
       
  1964 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  1965 			 2:00	Russia	EE%sT
       
  1966 #
       
  1967 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  1968 # Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast',
       
  1969 # Belgorodskaya oblast', Bryanskaya oblast', Vladimirskaya oblast',
       
  1970 # Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast',
       
  1971 # Respublika Dagestan, Ivanovskaya oblast', Respublika Ingushetiya,
       
  1972 # Kabarbino-Balkarskaya Respublika, Respublika Kalmykiya,
       
  1973 # Kalyzhskaya oblast', Respublika Karachaevo-Cherkessiya,
       
  1974 # Respublika Kareliya, Respublika Komi,
       
  1975 # Kostromskaya oblast', Krasnodarskij kraj, Kurskaya oblast',
       
  1976 # Leningradskaya oblast', Lipetskaya oblast', Respublika Marij El,
       
  1977 # Respublika Mordoviya, Moskva, Moskovskaya oblast',
       
  1978 # Murmanskaya oblast', Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  1979 # Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Novgorodskaya oblast', Orlovskaya oblast',
       
  1980 # Penzenskaya oblast', Pskovskaya oblast', Rostovskaya oblast',
       
  1981 # Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg,
       
  1982 # Respublika Severnaya Osetiya, Smolenskaya oblast',
       
  1983 # Stavropol'skij kraj, Tambovskaya oblast', Respublika Tatarstan,
       
  1984 # Tverskaya oblast', Tyl'skaya oblast', Ul'yanovskaya oblast',
       
  1985 # Chechenskaya Respublika, Chuvashskaya oblast',
       
  1986 # Yaroslavskaya oblast'
       
  1987 Zone Europe/Moscow	 2:30:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  1988 			 2:30	-	MMT	1916 Jul  3 # Moscow Mean Time
       
  1989 			 2:30:48 Russia	%s	1919 Jul  1 2:00
       
  1990 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1922 Oct
       
  1991 			 2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  1992 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  1993 			 2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  1994 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD
       
  1995 #
       
  1996 # Astrakhanskaya oblast', Kirovskaya oblast', Saratovskaya oblast',
       
  1997 # Volgogradskaya oblast'.  Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400
       
  1998 # but Wikipedia (2006-05-09) says +0300.  Perhaps it switched after the
       
  1999 # others?  But we have no data.
       
  2000 Zone Europe/Volgograd	 2:57:40 -	LMT	1920 Jan  3
       
  2001 			 3:00	-	TSAT	1925 Apr  6 # Tsaritsyn Time
       
  2002 			 3:00	-	STAT	1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time
       
  2003 			 4:00	-	STAT	1961 Nov 11
       
  2004 			 4:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T
       
  2005 			 3:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2006 			 4:00	-	VOLT	1992 Mar 29 2:00s
       
  2007 			 3:00	Russia	VOL%sT
       
  2008 #
       
  2009 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2010 # Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika
       
  2011 Zone Europe/Samara	 3:20:36 -	LMT	1919 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2012 			 3:00	-	SAMT	1930 Jun 21
       
  2013 			 4:00	-	SAMT	1935 Jan 27
       
  2014 			 4:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Kuybyshev
       
  2015 			 3:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2016 			 2:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
  2017 			 3:00	-	KUYT	1991 Oct 20 3:00
       
  2018 			 4:00	Russia	SAM%sT	# Samara Time
       
  2019 #
       
  2020 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2021 # Respublika Bashkortostan, Komi-Permyatskij avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  2022 # Kurganskaya oblast', Orenburgskaya oblast', Permskaya oblast',
       
  2023 # Sverdlovskaya oblast', Tyumenskaya oblast',
       
  2024 # Khanty-Manskijskij avtonomnyj okrug, Chelyabinskaya oblast',
       
  2025 # Yamalo-Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2026 Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg	 4:02:24 -	LMT	1919 Jul 15 4:00
       
  2027 			 4:00	-	SVET	1930 Jun 21 # Sverdlovsk Time
       
  2028 			 5:00	Russia	SVE%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2029 			 4:00	Russia	SVE%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2030 			 5:00	Russia	YEK%sT	# Yekaterinburg Time
       
  2031 #
       
  2032 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2033 # Respublika Altaj, Altajskij kraj, Omskaya oblast'.
       
  2034 Zone Asia/Omsk		 4:53:36 -	LMT	1919 Nov 14
       
  2035 			 5:00	-	OMST	1930 Jun 21 # Omsk TIme
       
  2036 			 6:00	Russia	OMS%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2037 			 5:00	Russia	OMS%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2038 			 6:00	Russia	OMS%sT
       
  2039 #
       
  2040 # From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's
       
  2041 # not clear when it switched from +7 to +6.
       
  2042 # Novosibirskaya oblast', Tomskaya oblast'.
       
  2043 Zone Asia/Novosibirsk	 5:31:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 14 6:00
       
  2044 			 6:00	-	NOVT	1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time
       
  2045 			 7:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2046 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2047 			 7:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P.
       
  2048 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT
       
  2049 #
       
  2050 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2051 # Kemerovskaya oblast', Krasnoyarskij kraj,
       
  2052 # Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  2053 # Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2054 Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk	 6:11:20 -	LMT	1920 Jan  6
       
  2055 			 6:00	-	KRAT	1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time
       
  2056 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2057 			 6:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2058 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT
       
  2059 #
       
  2060 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2061 # Respublika Buryatiya, Irkutskaya oblast',
       
  2062 # Ust'-Ordynskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2063 Zone Asia/Irkutsk	 6:57:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  2064 			 6:57:20 -	IMT	1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time
       
  2065 			 7:00	-	IRKT	1930 Jun 21 # Irkutsk Time
       
  2066 			 8:00	Russia	IRK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2067 			 7:00	Russia	IRK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2068 			 8:00	Russia	IRK%sT
       
  2069 #
       
  2070 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2071 # Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast',
       
  2072 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Chitinskaya oblast'.
       
  2073 # The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij,
       
  2074 # Bulunskij, Verkhnekolymskij, Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj,
       
  2075 # Zhiganskij, Kobyajskij, Lenskij, Megino-Kangalasskij, Mirninskij,
       
  2076 # Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenekskij, Olekminskij, Srednekolymskij,
       
  2077 # Suntarskij, Tattinskij, Ust'-Aldanskij, Khangalasskij,
       
  2078 # Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij.
       
  2079 Zone Asia/Yakutsk	 8:38:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
       
  2080 			 8:00	-	YAKT	1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
       
  2081 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2082 			 8:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2083 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT
       
  2084 #
       
  2085 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2086 # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj,
       
  2087 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
       
  2088 # The Sakha districts are: Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij,
       
  2089 # Ust'-Yanskij.
       
  2090 Zone Asia/Vladivostok	 8:47:44 -	LMT	1922 Nov 15
       
  2091 			 9:00	-	VLAT	1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time
       
  2092 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2093 			 9:00	Russia	VLA%sST	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2094 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT
       
  2095 #
       
  2096 # Sakhalinskaya oblast'.
       
  2097 # The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long.
       
  2098 Zone Asia/Sakhalin	 9:30:48 -	LMT	1905 Aug 23
       
  2099 			 9:00	-	CJT	1938
       
  2100 			 9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 25
       
  2101 			11:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T.
       
  2102 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2103 			11:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s
       
  2104 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT
       
  2105 #
       
  2106 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2107 # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
       
  2108 # Probably also: Kuril Islands.
       
  2109 # The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Momskij,
       
  2110 # Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij.
       
  2111 Zone Asia/Magadan	10:03:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
       
  2112 			10:00	-	MAGT	1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time
       
  2113 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2114 			10:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2115 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT
       
  2116 #
       
  2117 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2118 # Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2119 #
       
  2120 # The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long.
       
  2121 Zone Asia/Kamchatka	10:34:36 -	LMT	1922 Nov 10
       
  2122 			11:00	-	PETT	1930 Jun 21 # P-K Time
       
  2123 			12:00	Russia	PET%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2124 			11:00	Russia	PET%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2125 			12:00	Russia	PET%sT
       
  2126 #
       
  2127 # Chukotskij avtonomnyj okrug
       
  2128 Zone Asia/Anadyr	11:49:56 -	LMT	1924 May  2
       
  2129 			12:00	-	ANAT	1930 Jun 21 # Anadyr Time
       
  2130 			13:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1982 Apr  1 0:00s
       
  2131 			12:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2132 			11:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2133 			12:00	Russia	ANA%sT
       
  2134 
       
  2135 # Serbia
       
  2136 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2137 Zone	Europe/Belgrade	1:22:00	-	LMT	1884
       
  2138 			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
       
  2139 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8  2:00s
       
  2140 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
       
  2141 # Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of
       
  2142 # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time.
       
  2143 # Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
       
  2144 			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
       
  2145 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2146 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana	# Slovenia
       
  2147 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica	# Montenegro
       
  2148 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo	# Bosnia and Herzegovina
       
  2149 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje	# Macedonia
       
  2150 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb	# Croatia
       
  2151 
       
  2152 # Slovakia
       
  2153 Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
       
  2154 
       
  2155 # Slovenia
       
  2156 # see Serbia
       
  2157 
       
  2158 # Spain
       
  2159 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2160 # For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1;
       
  2161 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2162 Rule	Spain	1917	only	-	May	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2163 Rule	Spain	1917	1919	-	Oct	 6	23:00s	0	-
       
  2164 Rule	Spain	1918	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2165 Rule	Spain	1919	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2166 # Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2167 Rule	Spain	1924	only	-	Apr	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2168 # Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2169 Rule	Spain	1924	only	-	Oct	 4	23:00s	0	-
       
  2170 Rule	Spain	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2171 # Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2172 Rule	Spain	1926	1929	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2173 Rule	Spain	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2174 Rule	Spain	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2175 Rule	Spain	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2176 # Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13;
       
  2177 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2178 Rule	Spain	1937	only	-	May	22	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2179 Rule	Spain	1937	1939	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2180 Rule	Spain	1938	only	-	Mar	22	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2181 Rule	Spain	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2182 Rule	Spain	1940	only	-	Mar	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2183 # Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2184 Rule	Spain	1942	only	-	May	 2	22:00s	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  2185 Rule	Spain	1942	only	-	Sep	 1	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2186 Rule	Spain	1943	1946	-	Apr	Sat>=13	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  2187 Rule	Spain	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2188 Rule	Spain	1944	only	-	Oct	10	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2189 Rule	Spain	1945	only	-	Sep	30	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  2190 Rule	Spain	1946	only	-	Sep	30	 0:00	0	-
       
  2191 Rule	Spain	1949	only	-	Apr	30	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2192 Rule	Spain	1949	only	-	Sep	30	 1:00	0	-
       
  2193 Rule	Spain	1974	1975	-	Apr	Sat>=13	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2194 Rule	Spain	1974	1975	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 1:00	0	-
       
  2195 Rule	Spain	1976	only	-	Mar	27	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2196 Rule	Spain	1976	1977	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
       
  2197 Rule	Spain	1977	1978	-	Apr	 2	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2198 Rule	Spain	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  2199 # The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978.
       
  2200 Rule SpainAfrica 1967	only	-	Jun	 3	12:00	1:00	S
       
  2201 Rule SpainAfrica 1967	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2202 Rule SpainAfrica 1974	only	-	Jun	24	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2203 Rule SpainAfrica 1974	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2204 Rule SpainAfrica 1976	1977	-	May	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2205 Rule SpainAfrica 1976	only	-	Aug	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2206 Rule SpainAfrica 1977	only	-	Sep	28	 0:00	0	-
       
  2207 Rule SpainAfrica 1978	only	-	Jun	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2208 Rule SpainAfrica 1978	only	-	Aug	 4	 0:00	0	-
       
  2209 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2210 Zone	Europe/Madrid	-0:14:44 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1  0:00s
       
  2211 			 0:00	Spain	WE%sT	1946 Sep 30
       
  2212 			 1:00	Spain	CE%sT	1979
       
  2213 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2214 Zone	Africa/Ceuta	-0:21:16 -	LMT	1901
       
  2215 			 0:00	-	WET	1918 May  6 23:00
       
  2216 			 0:00	1:00	WEST	1918 Oct  7 23:00
       
  2217 			 0:00	-	WET	1924
       
  2218 			 0:00	Spain	WE%sT	1929
       
  2219 			 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
       
  2220 			 1:00	-	CET	1986
       
  2221 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2222 Zone	Atlantic/Canary	-1:01:36 -	LMT	1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
       
  2223 			-1:00	-	CANT	1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries Time
       
  2224 			 0:00	-	WET	1980 Apr  6 0:00s
       
  2225 			 0:00	1:00	WEST	1980 Sep 28 0:00s
       
  2226 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  2227 # IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u.
       
  2228 # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
       
  2229 
       
  2230 # Sweden
       
  2231 
       
  2232 # From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger:
       
  2233 #
       
  2234 # The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879:
       
  2235 # From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all
       
  2236 # places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at
       
  2237 # three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the
       
  2238 # meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm".  The law is dated 1878-05-31.
       
  2239 #
       
  2240 # The observatory at that time had the meridian 18 degrees 03' 30"
       
  2241 # eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time.  Less 12 minutes gives the
       
  2242 # national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT....
       
  2243 #
       
  2244 # About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk
       
  2245 # forfattningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning
       
  2246 # of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at
       
  2247 # the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English
       
  2248 # observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west
       
  2249 # from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated
       
  2250 # 1899-06-16.  In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time
       
  2251 # in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT.
       
  2252 #
       
  2253 # 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk forfattningssamling 1916, no 124") states
       
  2254 # that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is
       
  2255 # pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00....
       
  2256 # Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later".
       
  2257 #
       
  2258 # The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish
       
  2259 # Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are
       
  2260 # not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available
       
  2261 # in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type
       
  2262 # "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click
       
  2263 # the Sok-button).
       
  2264 #
       
  2265 # (2001-05-13):
       
  2266 #
       
  2267 # I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00
       
  2268 # summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show
       
  2269 # 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time.  The article also reports that some
       
  2270 # people thought the switch to standard time would take place already
       
  2271 # at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another
       
  2272 # hour before the event took place.
       
  2273 #
       
  2274 # Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left.
       
  2275 
       
  2276 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2277 Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1879 Jan  1
       
  2278 			1:00:14	-	SET	1900 Jan  1	# Swedish Time
       
  2279 			1:00	-	CET	1916 May 14 23:00
       
  2280 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1916 Oct  1 01:00
       
  2281 			1:00	-	CET	1980
       
  2282 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2283 
       
  2284 # Switzerland
       
  2285 # From Howse:
       
  2286 # By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace
       
  2287 # and their performance improved enormously.  Communities began to keep
       
  2288 # mean time in preference to apparent time -- Geneva from 1780 ....
       
  2289 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2290 # From Whitman (who writes ``Midnight?''):
       
  2291 Rule	Swiss	1940	only	-	Nov	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2292 Rule	Swiss	1940	only	-	Dec	31	0:00	0	-
       
  2293 # From Shanks & Pottenger:
       
  2294 Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
       
  2295 Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
       
  2296 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2297 Zone	Europe/Zurich	0:34:08 -	LMT	1848 Sep 12
       
  2298 			0:29:44	-	BMT	1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time
       
  2299 			1:00	Swiss	CE%sT	1981
       
  2300 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2301 
       
  2302 # Turkey
       
  2303 
       
  2304 # From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03):
       
  2305 # The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now.
       
  2306 # ... The latest rules are available at -
       
  2307 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107
       
  2308 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03):
       
  2309 # I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that
       
  2310 # DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time.  I am not sure
       
  2311 # what happened before that.  One example for each year from 1996 to 2001:
       
  2312 # http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm
       
  2313 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT
       
  2314 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM
       
  2315 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016
       
  2316 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021
       
  2317 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027
       
  2318 # From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03):
       
  2319 # Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990.
       
  2320 
       
  2321 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09):
       
  2322 # Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC
       
  2323 # start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07):
       
  2324 # http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp
       
  2325 # The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...:
       
  2326 # http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm
       
  2327 # I was able to locate the following seemingly official document
       
  2328 # (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006:
       
  2329 # http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm
       
  2330 
       
  2331 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2332 Rule	Turkey	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2333 Rule	Turkey	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2334 Rule	Turkey	1920	only	-	Mar	28	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2335 Rule	Turkey	1920	only	-	Oct	25	0:00	0	-
       
  2336 Rule	Turkey	1921	only	-	Apr	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2337 Rule	Turkey	1921	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
  2338 Rule	Turkey	1922	only	-	Mar	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2339 Rule	Turkey	1922	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2340 # Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925;
       
  2341 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2342 Rule	Turkey	1924	only	-	May	13	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2343 Rule	Turkey	1924	1925	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2344 Rule	Turkey	1925	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2345 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Jun	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2346 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00	0	-
       
  2347 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2348 Rule	Turkey	1941	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	-
       
  2349 Rule	Turkey	1942	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2350 # Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1;
       
  2351 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2352 Rule	Turkey	1942	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2353 Rule	Turkey	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2354 Rule	Turkey	1945	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2355 Rule	Turkey	1946	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2356 Rule	Turkey	1946	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2357 Rule	Turkey	1947	1948	-	Apr	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2358 Rule	Turkey	1947	1950	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0	-
       
  2359 Rule	Turkey	1949	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2360 Rule	Turkey	1950	only	-	Apr	19	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2361 Rule	Turkey	1951	only	-	Apr	22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2362 Rule	Turkey	1951	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2363 Rule	Turkey	1962	only	-	Jul	15	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2364 Rule	Turkey	1962	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2365 Rule	Turkey	1964	only	-	May	15	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2366 Rule	Turkey	1964	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2367 Rule	Turkey	1970	1972	-	May	Sun>=2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2368 Rule	Turkey	1970	1972	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0	-
       
  2369 Rule	Turkey	1973	only	-	Jun	 3	1:00	1:00	S
       
  2370 Rule	Turkey	1973	only	-	Nov	 4	3:00	0	-
       
  2371 Rule	Turkey	1974	only	-	Mar	31	2:00	1:00	S
       
  2372 Rule	Turkey	1974	only	-	Nov	 3	5:00	0	-
       
  2373 Rule	Turkey	1975	only	-	Mar	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2374 Rule	Turkey	1975	1976	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  2375 Rule	Turkey	1976	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2376 Rule	Turkey	1977	1978	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2377 Rule	Turkey	1977	only	-	Oct	16	0:00	0	-
       
  2378 Rule	Turkey	1979	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:00	1:00	S
       
  2379 Rule	Turkey	1979	1982	-	Oct	Mon>=11	0:00	0	-
       
  2380 Rule	Turkey	1981	1982	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	1:00	S
       
  2381 Rule	Turkey	1983	only	-	Jul	31	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2382 Rule	Turkey	1983	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
  2383 Rule	Turkey	1985	only	-	Apr	20	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2384 Rule	Turkey	1985	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
  2385 Rule	Turkey	1986	1990	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  2386 Rule	Turkey	1986	1990	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
       
  2387 Rule	Turkey	1991	2006	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  2388 Rule	Turkey	1991	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  2389 Rule	Turkey	1996	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  2390 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2391 Zone	Europe/Istanbul	1:55:52 -	LMT	1880
       
  2392 			1:56:56	-	IMT	1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time?
       
  2393 			2:00	Turkey	EE%sT	1978 Oct 15
       
  2394 			3:00	Turkey	TR%sT	1985 Apr 20 # Turkey Time
       
  2395 			2:00	Turkey	EE%sT	2007
       
  2396 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2397 Link	Europe/Istanbul	Asia/Istanbul	# Istanbul is in both continents.
       
  2398 
       
  2399 # Ukraine
       
  2400 #
       
  2401 # From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice,
       
  2402 # via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
       
  2403 # BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment
       
  2404 # regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
       
  2405 # "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday
       
  2406 # of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of
       
  2407 # October the time at 4am is changing to 3am"
       
  2408 
       
  2409 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2410 # Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev.
       
  2411 # "Kyiv" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2412 # "Kiev" is more common in English.
       
  2413 Zone Europe/Kiev	2:02:04 -	LMT	1880
       
  2414 			2:02:04	-	KMT	1924 May  2 # Kiev Mean Time
       
  2415 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2416 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Sep 20
       
  2417 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1943 Nov  6
       
  2418 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2419 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2420 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2421 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2422 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2423 # Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991.
       
  2424 # "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2425 # "Uzhgorod" is more common in English.
       
  2426 Zone Europe/Uzhgorod	1:29:12 -	LMT	1890 Oct
       
  2427 			1:00	-	CET	1940
       
  2428 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct
       
  2429 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1944 Oct 26
       
  2430 			1:00	-	CET	1945 Jun 29
       
  2431 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2432 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2433 			1:00	-	CET	1991 Mar 31 3:00
       
  2434 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2435 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2436 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2437 # Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991.
       
  2438 # "Zaporizhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2439 # "Zaporozh'ye" is more common in English.  Use the common English
       
  2440 # spelling, except omit the apostrophe as it is not allowed in
       
  2441 # portable Posix file names.
       
  2442 Zone Europe/Zaporozhye	2:20:40 -	LMT	1880
       
  2443 			2:20	-	CUT	1924 May  2 # Central Ukraine T
       
  2444 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2445 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Aug 25
       
  2446 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1943 Oct 25
       
  2447 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00
       
  2448 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2449 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2450 # Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997.
       
  2451 Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
       
  2452 			2:16	-	SMT	1924 May  2 # Simferopol Mean T
       
  2453 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2454 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Nov
       
  2455 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Apr 13
       
  2456 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2457 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2458 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2459 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  2460 # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched
       
  2461 # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections.
       
  2462 # Shanks (1999) says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened
       
  2463 # sometime between the 1994 DST switches.  Shanks & Pottenger simply say
       
  2464 # 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right.  For now, guess it
       
  2465 # changed in May.
       
  2466 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1994 May
       
  2467 # From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
       
  2468 			3:00	E-Eur	MSK/MSD	1996 Mar 31 3:00s
       
  2469 			3:00	1:00	MSD	1996 Oct 27 3:00s
       
  2470 # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST.
       
  2471 # Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
       
  2472 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1997
       
  2473 			3:00	-	MSK	1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
       
  2474 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2475 
       
  2476 ###############################################################################
       
  2477 
       
  2478 # One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from
       
  2479 # the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986.
       
  2480 # The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else.
       
  2481 #
       
  2482 # According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but
       
  2483 # uses the WE DST rules.  The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules.
       
  2484 # Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at
       
  2485 # 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST).  It also claims that Turkey
       
  2486 # switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time
       
  2487 # and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST)
       
  2488 
       
  2489 # ...
       
  2490 # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100
       
  2491 # From: Tom Hofmann
       
  2492 # ...
       
  2493 #
       
  2494 # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when
       
  2495 # most European coun[tr]ies started DST.  Before that year, only
       
  2496 # a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according
       
  2497 # to own national rules.  In 1981, however, DST started on
       
  2498 # 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following
       
  2499 # years...
       
  2500 # But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions
       
  2501 # than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST
       
  2502 # one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep
       
  2503 # lastSun' in 1981---I don't know how they handle now.
       
  2504 #
       
  2505 # Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the
       
  2506 # Soviet Union (as far as I know).
       
  2507 #
       
  2508 # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG,
       
  2509 # 4002 Basle, Switzerland
       
  2510 # ...
       
  2511 
       
  2512 # ...
       
  2513 # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100
       
  2514 # From: Dik T. Winter
       
  2515 # ...
       
  2516 #
       
  2517 # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct.
       
  2518 # After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information
       
  2519 # about DST in Europe.  I was able to find all from about 1969.
       
  2520 #
       
  2521 # ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on
       
  2522 # first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September...
       
  2523 # In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that
       
  2524 # the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March.  And from 1982
       
  2525 # the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in
       
  2526 # the Sov[i]et Union.  In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch
       
  2527 # dates...
       
  2528 #
       
  2529 # It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g.
       
  2530 # Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST...
       
  2531 # Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not
       
  2532 # all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations
       
  2533 # occurred, though not since 1982 I believe.  Another note: it is always
       
  2534 # assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the
       
  2535 # case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours
       
  2536 # in advance of normal time.
       
  2537 #
       
  2538 # ...
       
  2539 # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
       
  2540 # ...
       
  2541 
       
  2542 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
       
  2543 # ...
       
  2544 # Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates).
       
  2545 # Since 1978.  Change at midnight.
       
  2546 # ...
       
  2547 # Monaco: has same DST as France.
       
  2548 # ...