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    24 # <pre>
       
    25 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
       
    26 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
       
    27 
       
    28 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
       
    29 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
       
    30 # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).
       
    31 
       
    32 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
    33 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
       
    34 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
       
    35 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
       
    36 #
       
    37 # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
       
    38 # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
       
    39 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
       
    40 # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
       
    41 # of the IATA's data after 1990.
       
    42 #
       
    43 # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
       
    44 # entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
       
    45 #
       
    46 # Other sources occasionally used include:
       
    47 #
       
    48 #	Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
       
    49 #	Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
       
    50 #	which I found in the UCLA library.
       
    51 #
       
    52 #	<a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
       
    53 #	William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
       
    54 #	</a> (1914-03)
       
    55 #
       
    56 #	Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
       
    57 #	<http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.  He writes:
       
    58 #	"It is requested that corrections and additions to these tables
       
    59 #	may be sent to Mr. John Milne, Royal Geographical Society,
       
    60 #	Savile Row, London."  Nowadays please email them to tz@iana.org.
       
    61 #
       
    62 #	Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH),
       
    63 #	<a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm">
       
    64 #	History of Summer Time
       
    65 #	</a> (1998-09-21, in Portuguese)
       
    66 
       
    67 #
       
    68 # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
       
    69 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
       
    70 # Corrections are welcome!
       
    71 #                   std dst  2dst
       
    72 #                   LMT           Local Mean Time
       
    73 #       -4:00       AST ADT       Atlantic
       
    74 #       -3:00       WGT WGST      Western Greenland*
       
    75 #       -1:00       EGT EGST      Eastern Greenland*
       
    76 #        0:00       GMT BST  BDST Greenwich, British Summer
       
    77 #        0:00       GMT IST       Greenwich, Irish Summer
       
    78 #        0:00       WET WEST WEMT Western Europe
       
    79 #        0:19:32.13 AMT NST       Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
       
    80 #        0:20       NET NEST      Netherlands (1937-1940)*
       
    81 #        1:00       CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
       
    82 #        1:00:14    SET           Swedish (1879-1899)*
       
    83 #        2:00       EET EEST      Eastern Europe
       
    84 #        3:00       MSK MSD       Moscow
       
    85 #
       
    86 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
       
    87 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
       
    88 
       
    89 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04),
       
    90 # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
       
    91 # Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
       
    92 # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
       
    93 # Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece.
       
    94 # Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal.
       
    95 # Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for
       
    96 # entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8%
       
    97 # on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous
       
    98 # referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice.
       
    99 # Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.)
       
   100 # ...
       
   101 # Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT.
       
   102 # I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards.
       
   103 # ...
       
   104 # There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules].
       
   105 # A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact
       
   106 # national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the
       
   107 # different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed
       
   108 # in the Directive.
       
   109 
       
   110 
       
   111 ###############################################################################
       
   112 
       
   113 # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
       
   114 
       
   115 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06):
       
   116 #
       
   117 # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
       
   118 # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
       
   119 # and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
       
   120 # of the text said:
       
   121 #
       
   122 # 'An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
       
   123 # beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude
       
   124 # was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
       
   125 # this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
       
   126 # made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
       
   127 # but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
       
   128 # along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
       
   129 #
       
   130 # I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
       
   131 # position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longitude should
       
   132 # be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
       
   133 #
       
   134 # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
       
   135 
       
   136 # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
       
   137 #
       
   138 # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
       
   139 # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
       
   140 # and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country.
       
   141 # The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828)
       
   142 # and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903).
       
   143 # The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway
       
   144 # in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most
       
   145 # (though not all) railways used London time.  On 1847-09-22 the
       
   146 # Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be
       
   147 # adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it.
       
   148 # The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian,
       
   149 # and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many
       
   150 # railways as using GMT.  By 1855 the vast majority of public
       
   151 # clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock
       
   152 # on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands,
       
   153 # one for local time and one for GMT).  The last major holdout was the legal
       
   154 # system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading
       
   155 # to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13.
       
   156 # The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition
       
   157 # of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02.
       
   158 #
       
   159 # In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single
       
   160 # transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01.  We don't know as much
       
   161 # about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time.
       
   162 
       
   163 # From Paul Eggert (2003-09-27):
       
   164 # Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915),
       
   165 # a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society
       
   166 # who circulated a pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" (1907)
       
   167 # that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April,
       
   168 # and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September.
       
   169 # A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times,
       
   170 # but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests.
       
   171 # Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and
       
   172 # it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916.
       
   173 # See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18).
       
   174 # A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in
       
   175 # a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular
       
   176 # subscription and open to the public.  On the south face of the monolith,
       
   177 # designed by G. W. Miller, is the...William Willett Memorial Sundial,
       
   178 # which is permanently set to Summer Time.
       
   179 
       
   180 # From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28):
       
   181 # It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of
       
   182 # summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country
       
   183 # between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which
       
   184 # plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the
       
   185 # foundations of civilization throughout the world.
       
   186 #	-- <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm">
       
   187 #	"A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly
       
   188 #	</a>
       
   189 
       
   190 # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
       
   191 # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving"
       
   192 # when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
       
   193 # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
       
   194 # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer".
       
   195 
       
   196 # From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
       
   197 #
       
   198 # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
       
   199 # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
       
   200 
       
   201 # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed)
       
   202 # From: Jonathan Leffler
       
   203 # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament.
       
   204 # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
       
   205 # politics making a fortune, not computing.
       
   206 
       
   207 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14):
       
   208 # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the
       
   209 # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time.  Look for the published
       
   210 # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
       
   211 # if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
       
   212 
       
   213 # From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02):
       
   214 # ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the
       
   215 # main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516)
       
   216 # agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945).
       
   217 
       
   218 # From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03):
       
   219 # On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir
       
   220 # Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any
       
   221 # official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't
       
   222 # but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British
       
   223 # Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally.
       
   224 # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/bbc-19410418.png
       
   225 # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png
       
   226 
       
   227 # From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21):
       
   228 # [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time
       
   229 # which is to be introduced in May....
       
   230 # I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time"
       
   231 # which could not be said to run counter to any official description.
       
   232 
       
   233 # From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
       
   234 # Howse writes (p 157) 'DBST' too, but 'BDST' seems to have been common
       
   235 # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first,
       
   236 # so we use 'BDST'.
       
   237 
       
   238 # Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length
       
   239 # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
       
   240 # Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating
       
   241 # and extending this list, which can be found in
       
   242 # http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/
       
   243 # <a href="http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/">
       
   244 # History of legal time in Britain
       
   245 # </a>
       
   246 # Rob Crowther (2012-01-04) reports that that URL no longer
       
   247 # exists, and the article can now be found at:
       
   248 # <a href="http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/">
       
   249 # http://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/
       
   250 # </a>
       
   251 
       
   252 # From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06):
       
   253 #
       
   254 # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
       
   255 # see Lord Tanlaw's speech
       
   256 # <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0">
       
   257 # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976)
       
   258 # </a>.
       
   259 
       
   260 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   261 #
       
   262 # For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948.
       
   263 #
       
   264 # Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger
       
   265 # are incorrect:
       
   266 #     * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until
       
   267 #	1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain.
       
   268 # Actually, Wales was identical after 1880.
       
   269 #     * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1.
       
   270 # It actually just had one transition.
       
   271 #     * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II.
       
   272 # Actually, it conformed to Britain.
       
   273 #     * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18.
       
   274 # Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time.
       
   275 # Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change).
       
   276 #
       
   277 # Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger:
       
   278 #     * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT
       
   279 #	to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to
       
   280 #	conform with Great Britain.
       
   281 # S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise.
       
   282 #
       
   283 # The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful;
       
   284 # we'll ignore it for now.
       
   285 #     * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00.
       
   286 #
       
   287 #
       
   288 # Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than
       
   289 # Shanks & Pottenger.
       
   290 # Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory
       
   291 # (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was
       
   292 # to London.  For example:
       
   293 #
       
   294 #   "Timeball on the ballast office is down.  Dunsink time."
       
   295 #   -- James Joyce, Ulysses
       
   296 
       
   297 # From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26):
       
   298 # Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie.  These include
       
   299 # various relating to legal time, for example:
       
   300 #
       
   301 # ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html
       
   302 #
       
   303 # ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html
       
   304 # ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html
       
   305 #
       
   306 # ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html
       
   307 # ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html
       
   308 # ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html
       
   309 #
       
   310 # ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html
       
   311 # ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html
       
   312 # ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html
       
   313 #
       
   314 # [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is
       
   315 # <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.]
       
   316 #
       
   317 # (These are those I found, but there could be more.  In any case these
       
   318 # should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover
       
   319 # the laws applicable in Ireland.)
       
   320 #
       
   321 # (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined
       
   322 # in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it
       
   323 # is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time
       
   324 # being GMT+1.)
       
   325 
       
   326 # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28):
       
   327 # Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31)
       
   328 # reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time
       
   329 # (CT), equivalent to French civil time.
       
   330 # Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that
       
   331 # trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door)
       
   332 # and Frethun run in CT.
       
   333 # My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities,
       
   334 # the French concession operators and the British civil authorities,
       
   335 # and that the time depends on who you're talking to.
       
   336 # If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason,
       
   337 # I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST.
       
   338 # This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST.
       
   339 
       
   340 # From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
       
   341 # The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
       
   342 # which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
       
   343 # Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
       
   344 # regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
       
   345 # Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
       
   346 # "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST".
       
   347 
       
   348 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   349 # Summer Time Act, 1916
       
   350 Rule	GB-Eire	1916	only	-	May	21	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   351 Rule	GB-Eire	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   352 # S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358
       
   353 Rule	GB-Eire	1917	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   354 Rule	GB-Eire	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   355 # S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274
       
   356 Rule	GB-Eire	1918	only	-	Mar	24	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   357 Rule	GB-Eire	1918	only	-	Sep	30	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   358 # S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297
       
   359 Rule	GB-Eire	1919	only	-	Mar	30	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   360 Rule	GB-Eire	1919	only	-	Sep	29	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   361 # S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458
       
   362 Rule	GB-Eire	1920	only	-	Mar	28	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   363 # S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844
       
   364 Rule	GB-Eire	1920	only	-	Oct	25	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   365 # S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363
       
   366 Rule	GB-Eire	1921	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   367 Rule	GB-Eire	1921	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   368 # S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264
       
   369 Rule	GB-Eire	1922	only	-	Mar	26	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   370 Rule	GB-Eire	1922	only	-	Oct	 8	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   371 # The Summer Time Act, 1922
       
   372 Rule	GB-Eire	1923	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   373 Rule	GB-Eire	1923	1924	-	Sep	Sun>=16	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   374 Rule	GB-Eire	1924	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   375 Rule	GB-Eire	1925	1926	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   376 # The Summer Time Act, 1925
       
   377 Rule	GB-Eire	1925	1938	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   378 Rule	GB-Eire	1927	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   379 Rule	GB-Eire	1928	1929	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   380 Rule	GB-Eire	1930	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   381 Rule	GB-Eire	1931	1932	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   382 Rule	GB-Eire	1933	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   383 Rule	GB-Eire	1934	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   384 Rule	GB-Eire	1935	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   385 Rule	GB-Eire	1936	1937	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   386 Rule	GB-Eire	1938	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   387 Rule	GB-Eire	1939	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   388 # S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379
       
   389 Rule	GB-Eire	1939	only	-	Nov	Sun>=16	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   390 # S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883
       
   391 Rule	GB-Eire	1940	only	-	Feb	Sun>=23	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   392 # S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476
       
   393 Rule	GB-Eire	1941	only	-	May	Sun>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   394 Rule	GB-Eire	1941	1943	-	Aug	Sun>=9	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   395 # S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506
       
   396 Rule	GB-Eire	1942	1944	-	Apr	Sun>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   397 # S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932
       
   398 Rule	GB-Eire	1944	only	-	Sep	Sun>=16	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   399 # S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312
       
   400 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	only	-	Apr	Mon>=2	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   401 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	only	-	Jul	Sun>=9	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   402 # S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208
       
   403 Rule	GB-Eire	1945	1946	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   404 Rule	GB-Eire	1946	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   405 # The Summer Time Act, 1947
       
   406 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Mar	16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   407 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Apr	13	1:00s	2:00	BDST
       
   408 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Aug	10	1:00s	1:00	BST
       
   409 Rule	GB-Eire	1947	only	-	Nov	 2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   410 # Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495)
       
   411 Rule	GB-Eire	1948	only	-	Mar	14	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   412 Rule	GB-Eire	1948	only	-	Oct	31	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   413 # Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373)
       
   414 Rule	GB-Eire	1949	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   415 Rule	GB-Eire	1949	only	-	Oct	30	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   416 # Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518)
       
   417 # Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430)
       
   418 # Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451)
       
   419 Rule	GB-Eire	1950	1952	-	Apr	Sun>=14	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   420 Rule	GB-Eire	1950	1952	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   421 # revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925
       
   422 Rule	GB-Eire	1953	only	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   423 Rule	GB-Eire	1953	1960	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   424 Rule	GB-Eire	1954	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   425 Rule	GB-Eire	1955	1956	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   426 Rule	GB-Eire	1957	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   427 Rule	GB-Eire	1958	1959	-	Apr	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   428 Rule	GB-Eire	1960	only	-	Apr	Sun>=9	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   429 # Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71)
       
   430 # Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465)
       
   431 # Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81)
       
   432 Rule	GB-Eire	1961	1963	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   433 Rule	GB-Eire	1961	1968	-	Oct	Sun>=23	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   434 # Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101)
       
   435 # Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201)
       
   436 # Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148)
       
   437 Rule	GB-Eire	1964	1967	-	Mar	Sun>=19	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   438 # Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117)
       
   439 Rule	GB-Eire	1968	only	-	Feb	18	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   440 # The British Standard Time Act, 1968
       
   441 #	(no summer time)
       
   442 # The Summer Time Act, 1972
       
   443 Rule	GB-Eire	1972	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	2:00s	1:00	BST
       
   444 Rule	GB-Eire	1972	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=23	2:00s	0	GMT
       
   445 # Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089)
       
   446 # Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673)
       
   447 # Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223)
       
   448 # Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931)
       
   449 Rule	GB-Eire	1981	1995	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00u	1:00	BST
       
   450 Rule	GB-Eire 1981	1989	-	Oct	Sun>=23	1:00u	0	GMT
       
   451 # Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985)
       
   452 # Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729)
       
   453 # Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798)
       
   454 Rule	GB-Eire 1990	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=22	1:00u	0	GMT
       
   455 # Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982)
       
   456 # See EU for rules starting in 1996.
       
   457 #
       
   458 # Use Europe/London for Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man.
       
   459 
       
   460 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   461 Zone	Europe/London	-0:01:15 -	LMT	1847 Dec  1 0:00s
       
   462 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
       
   463 			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31 2:00u
       
   464 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
       
   465 			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
       
   466 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Jersey
       
   467 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Guernsey
       
   468 Link	Europe/London	Europe/Isle_of_Man
       
   469 Zone	Europe/Dublin	-0:25:00 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2
       
   470 			-0:25:21 -	DMT	1916 May 21 2:00
       
   471 			-0:25:21 1:00	IST	1916 Oct  1 2:00s
       
   472 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1921 Dec  6 # independence
       
   473 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1940 Feb 25 2:00
       
   474 			 0:00	1:00	IST	1946 Oct  6 2:00
       
   475 			 0:00	-	GMT	1947 Mar 16 2:00
       
   476 			 0:00	1:00	IST	1947 Nov  2 2:00
       
   477 			 0:00	-	GMT	1948 Apr 18 2:00
       
   478 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1968 Oct 27
       
   479 			 1:00	-	IST	1971 Oct 31 2:00u
       
   480 			 0:00	GB-Eire	GMT/IST	1996
       
   481 			 0:00	EU	GMT/IST
       
   482 
       
   483 ###############################################################################
       
   484 
       
   485 # Europe
       
   486 
       
   487 # EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC,
       
   488 # Common Market, etc.
       
   489 
       
   490 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   491 Rule	EU	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00u	1:00	S
       
   492 Rule	EU	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   493 Rule	EU	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00u	0	-
       
   494 Rule	EU	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   495 Rule	EU	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00u	1:00	S
       
   496 Rule	EU	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
       
   497 # The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002.  See:
       
   498 # <a="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT">
       
   499 # Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
       
   500 # of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements.
       
   501 # </a>
       
   502 
       
   503 # W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time.
       
   504 Rule	W-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
   505 Rule	W-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   506 Rule	W-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00s	0	-
       
   507 Rule	W-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   508 Rule	W-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
   509 Rule	W-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
   510 
       
   511 # Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables.
       
   512 # From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time.
       
   513 Rule	C-Eur	1916	only	-	Apr	30	23:00	1:00	S
       
   514 Rule	C-Eur	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
   515 Rule	C-Eur	1917	1918	-	Apr	Mon>=15	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   516 Rule	C-Eur	1917	1918	-	Sep	Mon>=15	 2:00s	0	-
       
   517 Rule	C-Eur	1940	only	-	Apr	 1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   518 Rule	C-Eur	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   519 Rule	C-Eur	1943	only	-	Mar	29	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   520 Rule	C-Eur	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	 2:00s	0	-
       
   521 Rule	C-Eur	1944	1945	-	Apr	Mon>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   522 # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
   523 Rule	C-Eur	1944	only	-	Oct	 2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   524 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-07-13):
       
   525 #
       
   526 # I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s
       
   527 # in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was
       
   528 # corrected in version 2008d). The circumstancial evidence is simply the
       
   529 # tz database itself, as seen below:
       
   530 #
       
   531 # Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15  0:01
       
   532 #    0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16  3:00
       
   533 #
       
   534 # Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15
       
   535 #    0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00
       
   536 #
       
   537 # Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
       
   538 #    1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16  2:00s
       
   539 #
       
   540 # Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16  3:00 0 -
       
   541 # Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16  2:00s 0 -
       
   542 # Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 -
       
   543 #
       
   544 # The rule line to be changed is:
       
   545 #
       
   546 # Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16  2:00 0 -
       
   547 #
       
   548 # It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on
       
   549 # 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time.  However there are no
       
   550 # countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items
       
   551 # affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translate acronyms
       
   552 # CET and MET:
       
   553 #
       
   554 # Zone CET  1:00 C-Eur CE%sT
       
   555 # Zone MET  1:00 C-Eur ME%sT
       
   556 #
       
   557 # It this is right then the corrected version would look like:
       
   558 #
       
   559 # Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16  2:00s 0 -
       
   560 #
       
   561 # A small step for mankind though 8-)
       
   562 Rule	C-Eur	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 2:00s	0	-
       
   563 Rule	C-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   564 Rule	C-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   565 Rule	C-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 2:00s	0	-
       
   566 Rule	C-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   567 Rule	C-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   568 Rule	C-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   569 
       
   570 # E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time.
       
   571 Rule	E-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   572 Rule	E-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   573 Rule	E-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   574 Rule	E-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   575 Rule	E-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   576 Rule	E-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
   577 
       
   578 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   579 Rule	Russia	1917	only	-	Jul	 1	23:00	1:00	MST	# Moscow Summer Time
       
   580 Rule	Russia	1917	only	-	Dec	28	 0:00	0	MMT	# Moscow Mean Time
       
   581 Rule	Russia	1918	only	-	May	31	22:00	2:00	MDST	# Moscow Double Summer Time
       
   582 Rule	Russia	1918	only	-	Sep	16	 1:00	1:00	MST
       
   583 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	May	31	23:00	2:00	MDST
       
   584 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Jul	 1	 2:00	1:00	S
       
   585 Rule	Russia	1919	only	-	Aug	16	 0:00	0	-
       
   586 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
   587 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Mar	20	23:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
   588 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   589 Rule	Russia	1921	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   590 # Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
       
   591 Rule	Russia	1981	1984	-	Apr	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   592 Rule	Russia	1981	1983	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
   593 # Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
       
   594 # Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
       
   595 Rule	Russia	1984	1991	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   596 Rule	Russia	1985	1991	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   597 #
       
   598 Rule	Russia	1992	only	-	Mar	lastSat	 23:00	1:00	S
       
   599 Rule	Russia	1992	only	-	Sep	lastSat	 23:00	0	-
       
   600 Rule	Russia	1993	2010	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   601 Rule	Russia	1993	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   602 Rule	Russia	1996	2010	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
   603 
       
   604 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-06-14):
       
   605 # According to Kremlin press service, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
       
   606 # signed a federal law "On calculation of time" on June 9, 2011.
       
   607 # According to the law Russia is abolishing daylight saving time.
       
   608 #
       
   609 # Medvedev signed a law "On the Calculation of Time" (in russian):
       
   610 # <a href="http://bmockbe.ru/events/?ID=7583">
       
   611 # http://bmockbe.ru/events/?ID=7583
       
   612 # </a>
       
   613 #
       
   614 # Medvedev signed a law on the calculation of the time (in russian):
       
   615 # <a href="http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1413906.html">
       
   616 # http://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1413906.html
       
   617 # </a>
       
   618 
       
   619 # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
       
   620 # Take "abolishing daylight saving time" to mean that time is now considered
       
   621 # to be standard.
       
   622 
       
   623 # These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
       
   624 
       
   625 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   626 Zone	WET		0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
   627 Zone	CET		1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT
       
   628 Zone	MET		1:00	C-Eur	ME%sT
       
   629 Zone	EET		2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
   630 
       
   631 # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST
       
   632 # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage.
       
   633 
       
   634 # From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12):
       
   635 # The official German names ... are
       
   636 #
       
   637 #	Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ)         = UTC+01:00
       
   638 #	Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit (MESZ)  = UTC+02:00
       
   639 #
       
   640 # as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz ueber die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG),
       
   641 # 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111)....
       
   642 # I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution
       
   643 #
       
   644 #	Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
       
   645 #	Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit"
       
   646 #	Postfach 3345
       
   647 #	D-38023 Braunschweig
       
   648 #	phone: +49 531 592-0
       
   649 #
       
   650 # ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB
       
   651 # department for time and frequency transmission.  He explained that the
       
   652 # PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as
       
   653 #
       
   654 #	Central European Time (CET)         = UTC+01:00
       
   655 #	Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00
       
   656 
       
   657 
       
   658 # Albania
       
   659 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   660 Rule	Albania	1940	only	-	Jun	16	0:00	1:00	S
       
   661 Rule	Albania	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	3:00	0	-
       
   662 Rule	Albania	1943	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	1:00	S
       
   663 Rule	Albania	1943	only	-	Apr	10	3:00	0	-
       
   664 Rule	Albania	1974	only	-	May	 4	0:00	1:00	S
       
   665 Rule	Albania	1974	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   666 Rule	Albania	1975	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
   667 Rule	Albania	1975	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   668 Rule	Albania	1976	only	-	May	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
   669 Rule	Albania	1976	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
   670 Rule	Albania	1977	only	-	May	 8	0:00	1:00	S
       
   671 Rule	Albania	1977	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
   672 Rule	Albania	1978	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	S
       
   673 Rule	Albania	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
   674 Rule	Albania	1979	only	-	May	 5	0:00	1:00	S
       
   675 Rule	Albania	1979	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
       
   676 Rule	Albania	1980	only	-	May	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
   677 Rule	Albania	1980	only	-	Oct	 4	0:00	0	-
       
   678 Rule	Albania	1981	only	-	Apr	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
   679 Rule	Albania	1981	only	-	Sep	27	0:00	0	-
       
   680 Rule	Albania	1982	only	-	May	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
   681 Rule	Albania	1982	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
   682 Rule	Albania	1983	only	-	Apr	18	0:00	1:00	S
       
   683 Rule	Albania	1983	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
   684 Rule	Albania	1984	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
   685 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   686 Zone	Europe/Tirane	1:19:20 -	LMT	1914
       
   687 			1:00	-	CET	1940 Jun 16
       
   688 			1:00	Albania	CE%sT	1984 Jul
       
   689 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   690 
       
   691 # Andorra
       
   692 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   693 Zone	Europe/Andorra	0:06:04 -	LMT	1901
       
   694 			0:00	-	WET	1946 Sep 30
       
   695 			1:00	-	CET	1985 Mar 31 2:00
       
   696 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   697 
       
   698 # Austria
       
   699 
       
   700 # Milne says Vienna time was 1:05:21.
       
   701 
       
   702 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and
       
   703 # 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
       
   704 # Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
       
   705 # date of 1945-04-12 with no time.  For the 1980-04-06 transition
       
   706 # Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00.  Go with the BEV,
       
   707 # and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12.
       
   708 
       
   709 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   710 Rule	Austria	1920	only	-	Apr	 5	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   711 Rule	Austria	1920	only	-	Sep	13	2:00s	0	-
       
   712 Rule	Austria	1946	only	-	Apr	14	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   713 Rule	Austria	1946	1948	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
   714 Rule	Austria	1947	only	-	Apr	 6	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   715 Rule	Austria	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   716 Rule	Austria	1980	only	-	Apr	 6	0:00	1:00	S
       
   717 Rule	Austria	1980	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
   718 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   719 Zone	Europe/Vienna	1:05:21 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
   720 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1920
       
   721 			1:00	Austria	CE%sT	1940 Apr  1 2:00s
       
   722 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00s
       
   723 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Apr 12 2:00s
       
   724 			1:00	-	CET	1946
       
   725 			1:00	Austria	CE%sT	1981
       
   726 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   727 
       
   728 # Belarus
       
   729 # From Yauhen Kharuzhy (2011-09-16):
       
   730 # By latest Belarus government act Europe/Minsk timezone was changed to
       
   731 # GMT+3 without DST (was GMT+2 with DST).
       
   732 #
       
   733 # Sources (Russian language):
       
   734 # 1.
       
   735 # <a href="http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html">
       
   736 # http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html
       
   737 # </a>
       
   738 # 2.
       
   739 # <a href="http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/09/16/ic_articles_116_175144/">
       
   740 # http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/09/16/ic_articles_116_175144/
       
   741 # </a>
       
   742 # 3.
       
   743 # <a href="http://news.tut.by/society/250578.html">
       
   744 # http://news.tut.by/society/250578.html
       
   745 # </a>
       
   746 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   747 Zone	Europe/Minsk	1:50:16 -	LMT	1880
       
   748 			1:50	-	MMT	1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time
       
   749 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
   750 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jun 28
       
   751 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Jul  3
       
   752 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
   753 			3:00	-	MSK	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
   754 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
   755 			2:00	-	EET	1992 Mar 29 0:00s
       
   756 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1992 Sep 27 0:00s
       
   757 			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
   758 			3:00	-	FET # Further-eastern European Time
       
   759 
       
   760 # Belgium
       
   761 #
       
   762 # From Paul Eggert (1997-07-02):
       
   763 # Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from:
       
   764 #	Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique,
       
   765 #	Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe annee, 1991
       
   766 #	(Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC),
       
   767 #	pp 8-9.
       
   768 # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium:
       
   769 #	Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121.
       
   770 # Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references.
       
   771 # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium.
       
   772 # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect.
       
   773 #
       
   774 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   775 Rule	Belgium	1918	only	-	Mar	 9	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
   776 Rule	Belgium	1918	1919	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
   777 Rule	Belgium	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   778 Rule	Belgium	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   779 Rule	Belgium	1920	only	-	Oct	23	23:00s	0	-
       
   780 Rule	Belgium	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   781 Rule	Belgium	1921	only	-	Oct	25	23:00s	0	-
       
   782 Rule	Belgium	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   783 Rule	Belgium	1922	1927	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
   784 Rule	Belgium	1923	only	-	Apr	21	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   785 Rule	Belgium	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   786 Rule	Belgium	1925	only	-	Apr	 4	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   787 # DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd
       
   788 # Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier),
       
   789 # to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15
       
   790 # changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT.
       
   791 Rule	Belgium	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   792 Rule	Belgium	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   793 Rule	Belgium	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
   794 Rule	Belgium	1928	1938	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 2:00s	0	-
       
   795 Rule	Belgium	1929	only	-	Apr	21	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   796 Rule	Belgium	1930	only	-	Apr	13	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   797 Rule	Belgium	1931	only	-	Apr	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   798 Rule	Belgium	1932	only	-	Apr	 3	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   799 Rule	Belgium	1933	only	-	Mar	26	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   800 Rule	Belgium	1934	only	-	Apr	 8	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   801 Rule	Belgium	1935	only	-	Mar	31	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   802 Rule	Belgium	1936	only	-	Apr	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   803 Rule	Belgium	1937	only	-	Apr	 4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   804 Rule	Belgium	1938	only	-	Mar	27	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   805 Rule	Belgium	1939	only	-	Apr	16	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   806 Rule	Belgium	1939	only	-	Nov	19	 2:00s	0	-
       
   807 Rule	Belgium	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   808 Rule	Belgium	1944	only	-	Sep	17	 2:00s	0	-
       
   809 Rule	Belgium	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   810 Rule	Belgium	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 2:00s	0	-
       
   811 Rule	Belgium	1946	only	-	May	19	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   812 Rule	Belgium	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	 2:00s	0	-
       
   813 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   814 Zone	Europe/Brussels	0:17:30 -	LMT	1880
       
   815 			0:17:30	-	BMT	1892 May  1 12:00 # Brussels MT
       
   816 			0:00	-	WET	1914 Nov  8
       
   817 			1:00	-	CET	1916 May  1  0:00
       
   818 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918 Nov 11 11:00u
       
   819 			0:00	Belgium	WE%sT	1940 May 20  2:00s
       
   820 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep  3
       
   821 			1:00	Belgium	CE%sT	1977
       
   822 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   823 
       
   824 # Bosnia and Herzegovina
       
   825 # See Europe/Belgrade.
       
   826 
       
   827 # Bulgaria
       
   828 #
       
   829 # From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
       
   830 # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says:
       
   831 # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ...
       
   832 # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October
       
   833 #
       
   834 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   835 Rule	Bulg	1979	only	-	Mar	31	23:00	1:00	S
       
   836 Rule	Bulg	1979	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
   837 Rule	Bulg	1980	1982	-	Apr	Sat>=1	23:00	1:00	S
       
   838 Rule	Bulg	1980	only	-	Sep	29	 1:00	0	-
       
   839 Rule	Bulg	1981	only	-	Sep	27	 2:00	0	-
       
   840 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   841 Zone	Europe/Sofia	1:33:16 -	LMT	1880
       
   842 			1:56:56	-	IMT	1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT?
       
   843 			2:00	-	EET	1942 Nov  2  3:00
       
   844 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945
       
   845 			1:00	-	CET	1945 Apr 2 3:00
       
   846 			2:00	-	EET	1979 Mar 31 23:00
       
   847 			2:00	Bulg	EE%sT	1982 Sep 26  2:00
       
   848 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1991
       
   849 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
   850 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
   851 
       
   852 # Croatia
       
   853 # See Europe/Belgrade.
       
   854 
       
   855 # Cyprus
       
   856 # Please see the 'asia' file for Asia/Nicosia.
       
   857 
       
   858 # Czech Republic
       
   859 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   860 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   861 Rule	Czech	1945	only	-	Nov	18	2:00s	0	-
       
   862 Rule	Czech	1946	only	-	May	 6	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   863 Rule	Czech	1946	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
   864 Rule	Czech	1947	only	-	Apr	20	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   865 Rule	Czech	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   866 Rule	Czech	1949	only	-	Apr	 9	2:00s	1:00	S
       
   867 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   868 Zone	Europe/Prague	0:57:44 -	LMT	1850
       
   869 			0:57:44	-	PMT	1891 Oct     # Prague Mean Time
       
   870 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep 17 2:00s
       
   871 			1:00	Czech	CE%sT	1979
       
   872 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   873 # Use Europe/Prague also for Slovakia.
       
   874 
       
   875 # Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland
       
   876 
       
   877 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26):
       
   878 # http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law
       
   879 # [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01....
       
   880 # The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL
       
   881 # confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29.
       
   882 #
       
   883 # The EU treaty with effect from 1973:
       
   884 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL
       
   885 #
       
   886 # This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes
       
   887 # in subsequenet decrees with the law
       
   888 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL
       
   889 #
       
   890 # It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980.  I have
       
   891 # not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST
       
   892 # changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to
       
   893 # 1980-09-28 at 02:00.  If this is true, this differs slightly from
       
   894 # the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00.  We don't know
       
   895 # when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only
       
   896 # confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981:
       
   897 # The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning
       
   898 # working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which
       
   899 # was suspended on that night):
       
   900 # http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL
       
   901 
       
   902 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11):
       
   903 # The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between
       
   904 # Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two.
       
   905 
       
   906 # From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11):
       
   907 # Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not
       
   908 # wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980.
       
   909 
       
   910 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
   911 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
   912 Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	Sep	30	23:00	0	-
       
   913 Rule	Denmark	1940	only	-	May	15	 0:00	1:00	S
       
   914 Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   915 Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Aug	15	 2:00s	0	-
       
   916 Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	May	 1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   917 Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	Sep	 1	 2:00s	0	-
       
   918 Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	May	 4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   919 Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	Aug	10	 2:00s	0	-
       
   920 Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	May	 9	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
   921 Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	Aug	 8	 2:00s	0	-
       
   922 #
       
   923 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
   924 Zone Europe/Copenhagen	 0:50:20 -	LMT	1890
       
   925 			 0:50:20 -	CMT	1894 Jan  1 # Copenhagen MT
       
   926 			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
   927 			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00
       
   928 			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1980
       
   929 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
   930 Zone Atlantic/Faroe	-0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Torshavn
       
   931 			 0:00	-	WET	1981
       
   932 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
   933 #
       
   934 # From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31):
       
   935 # During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in
       
   936 # East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones.
       
   937 # My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard.
       
   938 #
       
   939 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   940 # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01,
       
   941 # and left the EU on 1985-02-01.  It therefore should have been using EU
       
   942 # rules at least through 1984.  Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthab
       
   943 # used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU
       
   944 # rules since at least 1991.  Assume EU rules since 1980.
       
   945 
       
   946 # From Gwillin Law (2001-06-06), citing
       
   947 # <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15),
       
   948 # and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen:
       
   949 #
       
   950 # Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC
       
   951 # is according to the following time line:
       
   952 #
       
   953 # The military zone near Thule	UTC-4
       
   954 # Standard Greenland time	UTC-3
       
   955 # Scoresbysund			UTC-1
       
   956 # Danmarkshavn			UTC
       
   957 #
       
   958 # In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be
       
   959 # introduced.
       
   960 
       
   961 # From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
       
   962 #
       
   963 # I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
       
   964 # the time to clarify the situation in Thule.  Unfortunately, I have
       
   965 # not heard back from them regarding my recent letter.  [But I have
       
   966 # info from earlier correspondence.]
       
   967 #
       
   968 # According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule
       
   969 # Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight
       
   970 # savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time....
       
   971 #
       
   972 # The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund
       
   973 # uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst.
       
   974 # There are just a few stations on this coast, including the
       
   975 # Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th
       
   976 # email.  The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in
       
   977 # Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the
       
   978 # DPC research station at Zackenberg.
       
   979 #
       
   980 # Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use
       
   981 # the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab).
       
   982 #
       
   983 # The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it
       
   984 # includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time
       
   985 # UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules.
       
   986 #
       
   987 # It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and
       
   988 # North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators
       
   989 # maintaining traffic in these areas.  However, the official status of
       
   990 # this area is that it sticks with Godthab time.  This area might be
       
   991 # considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this.
       
   992 
       
   993 # From Rives McDow (2001-11-19):
       
   994 # I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place
       
   995 # there at 2:00 AM.
       
   996 
       
   997 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
   998 # From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT;
       
   999 # the 1995 map as like Godthab.
       
  1000 # For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996.
       
  1001 # startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error,
       
  1002 # so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year.
       
  1003 # For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules.
       
  1004 #
       
  1005 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1006 Rule	Thule	1991	1992	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
       
  1007 Rule	Thule	1991	1992	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
       
  1008 Rule	Thule	1993	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
       
  1009 Rule	Thule	1993	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
       
  1010 Rule	Thule	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
       
  1011 Rule	Thule	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
       
  1012 #
       
  1013 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1014 Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28
       
  1015 			-3:00	-	WGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
  1016 			-3:00	EU	WG%sT	1996
       
  1017 			0:00	-	GMT
       
  1018 Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit
       
  1019 			-2:00	-	CGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
  1020 			-2:00	C-Eur	CG%sT	1981 Mar 29
       
  1021 			-1:00	EU	EG%sT
       
  1022 Zone America/Godthab	-3:26:56 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk
       
  1023 			-3:00	-	WGT	1980 Apr  6 2:00
       
  1024 			-3:00	EU	WG%sT
       
  1025 Zone America/Thule	-4:35:08 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
       
  1026 			-4:00	Thule	A%sT
       
  1027 
       
  1028 # Estonia
       
  1029 # From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15):
       
  1030 # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards
       
  1031 # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it,
       
  1032 # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989....
       
  1033 #
       
  1034 # From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28):
       
  1035 # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s,
       
  1036 # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:]
       
  1037 # "I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different
       
  1038 # (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules
       
  1039 # conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia....
       
  1040 # A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on
       
  1041 # human physiology.  It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to
       
  1042 # summer time next spring."
       
  1043 
       
  1044 # From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited:
       
  1045 # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390">
       
  1046 # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law
       
  1047 # </a>
       
  1048 # refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between
       
  1049 # the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22--27, 120).
       
  1050 #
       
  1051 # I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation
       
  1052 # for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg"
       
  1053 # (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time).
       
  1054 
       
  1055 # From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (1999-09-09)
       
  1056 # via Steffen Thorsen:
       
  1057 # This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time,
       
  1058 # a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6....
       
  1059 # But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European
       
  1060 # Union are still unclear.  In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory
       
  1061 # for all member states until 2001.  Brussels has yet to decide what to do
       
  1062 # after that.
       
  1063 
       
  1064 # From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
       
  1065 # Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
       
  1066 # no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
       
  1067 # the year round.  The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
       
  1068 
       
  1069 # From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
       
  1070 # The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
       
  1071 # Now we are using again EU rules.
       
  1072 #
       
  1073 # From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28):
       
  1074 # The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.
       
  1075 
       
  1076 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1077 Zone	Europe/Tallinn	1:39:00	-	LMT	1880
       
  1078 			1:39:00	-	TMT	1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
       
  1079 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1919 Jul
       
  1080 			1:39:00	-	TMT	1921 May
       
  1081 			2:00	-	EET	1940 Aug  6
       
  1082 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Sep 15
       
  1083 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Sep 22
       
  1084 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1989 Mar 26 2:00s
       
  1085 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1989 Sep 24 2:00s
       
  1086 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998 Sep 22
       
  1087 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	1999 Nov  1
       
  1088 			2:00	-	EET	2002 Feb 21
       
  1089 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1090 
       
  1091 # Finland
       
  1092 
       
  1093 # From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC):
       
  1094 # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
       
  1095 # and it's supposed to change at 4am...
       
  1096 
       
  1097 # From Janne Snabb (2010-07-15):
       
  1098 #
       
  1099 # I noticed that the Finland data is not accurate for years 1981 and 1982.
       
  1100 # During these two first trial years the DST adjustment was made one hour
       
  1101 # earlier than in forthcoming years. Starting 1983 the adjustment was made
       
  1102 # according to the central European standards.
       
  1103 #
       
  1104 # This is documented in Heikki Oja: Aikakirja 2007, published by The Almanac
       
  1105 # Office of University of Helsinki, ISBN 952-10-3221-9, available online (in
       
  1106 # Finnish) at
       
  1107 #
       
  1108 # <a href="http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf">
       
  1109 # http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf
       
  1110 # </a>
       
  1111 #
       
  1112 # Page 105 (56 in PDF version) has a handy table of all past daylight savings
       
  1113 # transitions. It is easy enough to interpret without Finnish skills.
       
  1114 #
       
  1115 # This is also confirmed by Finnish Broadcasting Company's archive at:
       
  1116 #
       
  1117 # <a href="http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401">
       
  1118 # http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401
       
  1119 # </a>
       
  1120 #
       
  1121 # The news clip from 1981 says that "the time between 2 and 3 o'clock does not
       
  1122 # exist tonight."
       
  1123 
       
  1124 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1125 Rule	Finland	1942	only	-	Apr	3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1126 Rule	Finland	1942	only	-	Oct	3	0:00	0	-
       
  1127 Rule	Finland	1981	1982	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1128 Rule	Finland	1981	1982	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	0	-
       
  1129 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1130 Zone	Europe/Helsinki	1:39:52 -	LMT	1878 May 31
       
  1131 			1:39:52	-	HMT	1921 May    # Helsinki Mean Time
       
  1132 			2:00	Finland	EE%sT	1983
       
  1133 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1134 
       
  1135 # Aaland Is
       
  1136 Link	Europe/Helsinki	Europe/Mariehamn
       
  1137 
       
  1138 
       
  1139 # France
       
  1140 
       
  1141 # From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20):
       
  1142 #
       
  1143 # Henri Le Corre, Regimes Horaires pour le monde entier, Editions
       
  1144 # Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993
       
  1145 #
       
  1146 # Gabriel, Traite de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Tredaniel editeur,
       
  1147 # Paris, 1991
       
  1148 #
       
  1149 # Francoise Gauquelin, Problemes de l'heure resolus en astrologie,
       
  1150 # Guy tredaniel, Paris 1987
       
  1151 
       
  1152 
       
  1153 #
       
  1154 # Shank & Pottenger seem to use '24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman.
       
  1155 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1156 Rule	France	1916	only	-	Jun	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1157 Rule	France	1916	1919	-	Oct	Sun>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1158 Rule	France	1917	only	-	Mar	24	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1159 Rule	France	1918	only	-	Mar	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1160 Rule	France	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1161 Rule	France	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1162 Rule	France	1920	only	-	Oct	23	23:00s	0	-
       
  1163 Rule	France	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1164 Rule	France	1921	only	-	Oct	25	23:00s	0	-
       
  1165 Rule	France	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1166 # DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st
       
  1167 # Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions
       
  1168 # were Apr 12 and Oct 5.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1169 Rule	France	1922	1938	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  1170 Rule	France	1923	only	-	May	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1171 Rule	France	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1172 Rule	France	1925	only	-	Apr	 4	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1173 Rule	France	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1174 Rule	France	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1175 Rule	France	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1176 Rule	France	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1177 Rule	France	1930	only	-	Apr	12	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1178 Rule	France	1931	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1179 Rule	France	1932	only	-	Apr	 2	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1180 Rule	France	1933	only	-	Mar	25	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1181 Rule	France	1934	only	-	Apr	 7	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1182 Rule	France	1935	only	-	Mar	30	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1183 Rule	France	1936	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1184 Rule	France	1937	only	-	Apr	 3	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1185 Rule	France	1938	only	-	Mar	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1186 Rule	France	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1187 Rule	France	1939	only	-	Nov	18	23:00s	0	-
       
  1188 Rule	France	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	S
       
  1189 # The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger
       
  1190 # write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations.
       
  1191 # Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez,
       
  1192 # Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La
       
  1193 # Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Descartes,
       
  1194 # Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin,
       
  1195 # Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois,
       
  1196 # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collonges (Haute-Savoie).
       
  1197 Rule	France	1941	only	-	May	 5	 0:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  1198 # Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00,
       
  1199 # but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12),
       
  1200 # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes
       
  1201 # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT.
       
  1202 Rule	France	1941	only	-	Oct	 6	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1203 Rule	France	1942	only	-	Mar	 9	 0:00	2:00	M
       
  1204 Rule	France	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1205 Rule	France	1943	only	-	Mar	29	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1206 Rule	France	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1207 Rule	France	1944	only	-	Apr	 3	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1208 Rule	France	1944	only	-	Oct	 8	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1209 Rule	France	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00	2:00	M
       
  1210 Rule	France	1945	only	-	Sep	16	 3:00	0	-
       
  1211 # Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00;
       
  1212 # go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT.
       
  1213 Rule	France	1976	only	-	Mar	28	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1214 Rule	France	1976	only	-	Sep	26	 1:00	0	-
       
  1215 # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman 0:09:05,
       
  1216 # but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21.
       
  1217 # Go with Howse.  Howse writes that the time in France was officially based
       
  1218 # on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC.
       
  1219 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1220 Zone	Europe/Paris	0:09:21 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15  0:01
       
  1221 			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11  0:01  # Paris MT
       
  1222 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre.
       
  1223 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1940 Jun 14 23:00
       
  1224 # Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation;
       
  1225 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1226 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 25
       
  1227 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1945 Sep 16  3:00
       
  1228 			1:00	France	CE%sT	1977
       
  1229 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1230 
       
  1231 # Germany
       
  1232 
       
  1233 # From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29):
       
  1234 # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische
       
  1235 # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916.
       
  1236 # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
       
  1237 
       
  1238 # From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23):
       
  1239 # In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by
       
  1240 # <a href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/">
       
  1241 # General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>.
       
  1242 
       
  1243 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):
       
  1244 # <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf">
       
  1245 # http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf
       
  1246 # </a>
       
  1247 # says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
       
  1248 # However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
       
  1249 # this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4.
       
  1250 
       
  1251 
       
  1252 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1253 Rule	Germany	1946	only	-	Apr	14	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1254 Rule	Germany	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	0	-
       
  1255 Rule	Germany	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1256 # http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/441/salt.htm says the following transition
       
  1257 # occurred at 3:00 MEZ, not the 2:00 MEZ given in Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1258 # Go with the PTB.
       
  1259 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	Apr	 6	3:00s	1:00	S
       
  1260 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	May	11	2:00s	2:00	M
       
  1261 Rule	Germany	1947	only	-	Jun	29	3:00	1:00	S
       
  1262 Rule	Germany	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1263 Rule	Germany	1949	only	-	Apr	10	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1264 
       
  1265 Rule SovietZone	1945	only	-	May	24	2:00	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  1266 Rule SovietZone	1945	only	-	Sep	24	3:00	1:00	S
       
  1267 Rule SovietZone	1945	only	-	Nov	18	2:00s	0	-
       
  1268 
       
  1269 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1270 Zone	Europe/Berlin	0:53:28 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
  1271 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May 24 2:00
       
  1272 			1:00 SovietZone	CE%sT	1946
       
  1273 			1:00	Germany	CE%sT	1980
       
  1274 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1275 
       
  1276 # From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12):
       
  1277 # Busingen <http://www.buesingen.de>, surrounded by the Swiss canton
       
  1278 # Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE
       
  1279 # (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did.
       
  1280 # DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1,
       
  1281 # which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin.
       
  1282 #
       
  1283 # Source for the time in Busingen 1980:
       
  1284 # http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3
       
  1285 
       
  1286 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03):
       
  1287 # Busingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970.
       
  1288 
       
  1289 Link	Europe/Zurich	Europe/Busingen
       
  1290 
       
  1291 # Georgia
       
  1292 # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi.
       
  1293 # Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni)
       
  1294 # is in Europe.  Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part.
       
  1295 
       
  1296 # Gibraltar
       
  1297 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1298 Zone Europe/Gibraltar	-0:21:24 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2 0:00s
       
  1299 			0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1957 Apr 14 2:00
       
  1300 			1:00	-	CET	1982
       
  1301 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1302 
       
  1303 # Greece
       
  1304 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1305 # Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1306 Rule	Greece	1932	only	-	Jul	 7	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1307 Rule	Greece	1932	only	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1308 # Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1309 Rule	Greece	1941	only	-	Apr	 7	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1310 # Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1311 Rule	Greece	1942	only	-	Nov	 2	3:00	0	-
       
  1312 Rule	Greece	1943	only	-	Mar	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1313 Rule	Greece	1943	only	-	Oct	 4	0:00	0	-
       
  1314 # Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1315 Rule	Greece	1952	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1316 Rule	Greece	1952	only	-	Nov	 2	0:00	0	-
       
  1317 Rule	Greece	1975	only	-	Apr	12	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1318 Rule	Greece	1975	only	-	Nov	26	0:00s	0	-
       
  1319 Rule	Greece	1976	only	-	Apr	11	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1320 Rule	Greece	1976	only	-	Oct	10	2:00s	0	-
       
  1321 Rule	Greece	1977	1978	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1322 Rule	Greece	1977	only	-	Sep	26	2:00s	0	-
       
  1323 Rule	Greece	1978	only	-	Sep	24	4:00	0	-
       
  1324 Rule	Greece	1979	only	-	Apr	 1	9:00	1:00	S
       
  1325 Rule	Greece	1979	only	-	Sep	29	2:00	0	-
       
  1326 Rule	Greece	1980	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1327 Rule	Greece	1980	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
  1328 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1329 Zone	Europe/Athens	1:34:52 -	LMT	1895 Sep 14
       
  1330 			1:34:52	-	AMT	1916 Jul 28 0:01     # Athens MT
       
  1331 			2:00	Greece	EE%sT	1941 Apr 30
       
  1332 			1:00	Greece	CE%sT	1944 Apr  4
       
  1333 			2:00	Greece	EE%sT	1981
       
  1334 			# Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981;
       
  1335 			# go with EU instead, since Greece joined it on Jan 1.
       
  1336 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1337 
       
  1338 # Hungary
       
  1339 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1340 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Apr	 1	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1341 Rule	Hungary	1918	only	-	Sep	29	 3:00	0	-
       
  1342 Rule	Hungary	1919	only	-	Apr	15	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1343 Rule	Hungary	1919	only	-	Sep	15	 3:00	0	-
       
  1344 Rule	Hungary	1920	only	-	Apr	 5	 3:00	1:00	S
       
  1345 Rule	Hungary	1920	only	-	Sep	30	 3:00	0	-
       
  1346 Rule	Hungary	1945	only	-	May	 1	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1347 Rule	Hungary	1945	only	-	Nov	 3	 0:00	0	-
       
  1348 Rule	Hungary	1946	only	-	Mar	31	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1349 Rule	Hungary	1946	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1350 Rule	Hungary	1947	1949	-	Apr	Sun>=4	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1351 Rule	Hungary	1950	only	-	Apr	17	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1352 Rule	Hungary	1950	only	-	Oct	23	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1353 Rule	Hungary	1954	1955	-	May	23	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1354 Rule	Hungary	1954	1955	-	Oct	 3	 0:00	0	-
       
  1355 Rule	Hungary	1956	only	-	Jun	Sun>=1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  1356 Rule	Hungary	1956	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
  1357 Rule	Hungary	1957	only	-	Jun	Sun>=1	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1358 Rule	Hungary	1957	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 3:00	0	-
       
  1359 Rule	Hungary	1980	only	-	Apr	 6	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  1360 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1361 Zone	Europe/Budapest	1:16:20 -	LMT	1890 Oct
       
  1362 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918
       
  1363 			1:00	Hungary	CE%sT	1941 Apr  6  2:00
       
  1364 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945
       
  1365 			1:00	Hungary	CE%sT	1980 Sep 28  2:00s
       
  1366 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1367 
       
  1368 # Iceland
       
  1369 #
       
  1370 # From Adam David (1993-11-06):
       
  1371 # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
       
  1372 #
       
  1373 # (1993-12-05):
       
  1374 # This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of
       
  1375 # Iceland Almanak.
       
  1376 #
       
  1377 # From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour
       
  1378 # behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts
       
  1379 # of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavik mean solar time which
       
  1380 # was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT.
       
  1381 #
       
  1382 # "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks
       
  1383 # of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the
       
  1384 # time the norsemen first settled Iceland.  The first day of winter is always
       
  1385 # Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
       
  1386 #
       
  1387 # (1993-12-10):
       
  1388 # I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the
       
  1389 # beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus
       
  1390 # to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question.
       
  1391 #	the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day
       
  1392 #	(old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday.
       
  1393 # St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style"
       
  1394 # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
       
  1395 # might mean something else (???).
       
  1396 #
       
  1397 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1398 # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks & Pottenger, and Whitman disagree on many points.
       
  1399 # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks & Pottenger, namely
       
  1400 # that Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that.
       
  1401 #
       
  1402 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1403 Rule	Iceland	1917	1918	-	Feb	19	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1404 Rule	Iceland	1917	only	-	Oct	21	 1:00	0	-
       
  1405 Rule	Iceland	1918	only	-	Nov	16	 1:00	0	-
       
  1406 Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Apr	29	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1407 Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Nov	29	 2:00	0	-
       
  1408 Rule	Iceland	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	S
       
  1409 Rule	Iceland	1940	only	-	Nov	 3	 2:00	0	-
       
  1410 Rule	Iceland	1941	only	-	Mar	 2	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1411 Rule	Iceland	1941	only	-	Nov	 2	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1412 Rule	Iceland	1942	only	-	Mar	 8	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1413 Rule	Iceland	1942	only	-	Oct	25	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1414 # 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter
       
  1415 Rule	Iceland	1943	1946	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1416 Rule	Iceland	1943	1948	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1417 # 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter
       
  1418 Rule	Iceland	1947	1967	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1419 # 1949 Oct transition delayed by 1 week
       
  1420 Rule	Iceland	1949	only	-	Oct	30	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1421 Rule	Iceland	1950	1966	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1422 Rule	Iceland	1967	only	-	Oct	29	 1:00s	0	-
       
  1423 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1424 Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik	-1:27:24 -	LMT	1837
       
  1425 			-1:27:48 -	RMT	1908 # Reykjavik Mean Time?
       
  1426 			-1:00	Iceland	IS%sT	1968 Apr 7 1:00s
       
  1427 			 0:00	-	GMT
       
  1428 
       
  1429 # Italy
       
  1430 #
       
  1431 # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
       
  1432 # Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893,
       
  1433 # called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32).
       
  1434 # During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time.
       
  1435 # But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff,
       
  1436 # so record only the time in Rome.
       
  1437 #
       
  1438 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1439 # For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks & Pottenger, Whitman, and
       
  1440 # F. Pollastri
       
  1441 # <a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html">
       
  1442 # Day-light Saving Time in Italy (2006-02-03)
       
  1443 # </a>
       
  1444 # ('FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute
       
  1445 # publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows:
       
  1446 #
       
  1447 # year	FP	Shanks&P. (S)	Whitman (W)	Go with:
       
  1448 # 1916	06-03	06-03 24:00	06-03 00:00	FP & W
       
  1449 #	09-30	09-30 24:00	09-30 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1450 # 1917	04-01	03-31 24:00	03-31 00:00	FP & S
       
  1451 #	09-30	09-29 24:00	09-30 01:00	FP & W
       
  1452 # 1918	03-09	03-09 24:00	03-09 00:00	FP & S
       
  1453 #	10-06	10-05 24:00	10-06 01:00	FP & W
       
  1454 # 1919	03-01	03-01 24:00	03-01 00:00	FP & S
       
  1455 #	10-04	10-04 24:00	10-04 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1456 # 1920	03-20	03-20 24:00	03-20 00:00	FP & S
       
  1457 #	09-18	09-18 24:00	10-01 01:00	FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1458 # 1944	04-02	04-03 02:00			S (see C-Eur)
       
  1459 #	09-16	10-02 03:00			FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1460 # 1945	09-14	09-16 24:00			FP; guess 24:00s
       
  1461 # 1970	05-21	05-31 00:00			S
       
  1462 #	09-20	09-27 00:00			S
       
  1463 #
       
  1464 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1465 Rule	Italy	1916	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1466 Rule	Italy	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1467 Rule	Italy	1917	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1468 Rule	Italy	1917	only	-	Sep	30	0:00s	0	-
       
  1469 Rule	Italy	1918	only	-	Mar	10	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1470 Rule	Italy	1918	1919	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1471 Rule	Italy	1919	only	-	Mar	 2	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1472 Rule	Italy	1920	only	-	Mar	21	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1473 Rule	Italy	1920	only	-	Sep	19	0:00s	0	-
       
  1474 Rule	Italy	1940	only	-	Jun	15	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1475 Rule	Italy	1944	only	-	Sep	17	0:00s	0	-
       
  1476 Rule	Italy	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1477 Rule	Italy	1945	only	-	Sep	15	0:00s	0	-
       
  1478 Rule	Italy	1946	only	-	Mar	17	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1479 Rule	Italy	1946	only	-	Oct	 6	2:00s	0	-
       
  1480 Rule	Italy	1947	only	-	Mar	16	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1481 Rule	Italy	1947	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00s	0	-
       
  1482 Rule	Italy	1948	only	-	Feb	29	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1483 Rule	Italy	1948	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00s	0	-
       
  1484 Rule	Italy	1966	1968	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1485 Rule	Italy	1966	1969	-	Sep	Sun>=22	0:00	0	-
       
  1486 Rule	Italy	1969	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1487 Rule	Italy	1970	only	-	May	31	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1488 Rule	Italy	1970	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  1489 Rule	Italy	1971	1972	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1490 Rule	Italy	1971	only	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00	0	-
       
  1491 Rule	Italy	1972	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1492 Rule	Italy	1973	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1493 Rule	Italy	1973	1974	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  1494 Rule	Italy	1974	only	-	May	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1495 Rule	Italy	1975	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1496 Rule	Italy	1975	1977	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00s	0	-
       
  1497 Rule	Italy	1976	only	-	May	30	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1498 Rule	Italy	1977	1979	-	May	Sun>=22	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1499 Rule	Italy	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00s	0	-
       
  1500 Rule	Italy	1979	only	-	Sep	30	0:00s	0	-
       
  1501 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1502 Zone	Europe/Rome	0:49:56 -	LMT	1866 Sep 22
       
  1503 			0:49:56	-	RMT	1893 Nov  1 0:00s # Rome Mean
       
  1504 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
  1505 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Jul
       
  1506 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1980
       
  1507 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1508 
       
  1509 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/Vatican
       
  1510 Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
       
  1511 
       
  1512 # Latvia
       
  1513 
       
  1514 # From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17):
       
  1515 
       
  1516 # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy
       
  1517 # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the
       
  1518 # correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about
       
  1519 # changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981....
       
  1520 #
       
  1521 # Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
       
  1522 # according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
       
  1523 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
       
  1524 # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00)
       
  1525 # and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00).
       
  1526 #
       
  1527 # Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
       
  1528 # according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
       
  1529 # ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
       
  1530 # the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
       
  1531 # (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of
       
  1532 # September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day).
       
  1533 #
       
  1534 # Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
       
  1535 # according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
       
  1536 # ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR,
       
  1537 # Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the
       
  1538 # time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia
       
  1539 # transition to summer time is performed on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
       
  1540 # (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour forward.  The end of
       
  1541 # daylight saving time is performed on the last Sunday of September at 03:00
       
  1542 # (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour backward. Exception is
       
  1543 # 1989-03-26, when we must not turn the hands of the clock....
       
  1544 #
       
  1545 # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia of
       
  1546 # 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of
       
  1547 # daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union.
       
  1548 
       
  1549 # From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
       
  1550 # This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in
       
  1551 # <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm">
       
  1552 # The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of
       
  1553 # 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only).
       
  1554 
       
  1555 # <a href="http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html">
       
  1556 # From RFE/RL Newsline (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow:
       
  1557 # </a>
       
  1558 # The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will
       
  1559 # institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported.
       
  1560 # Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their
       
  1561 # clocks one hour in the spring....
       
  1562 # Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis noted that Latvia had too few
       
  1563 # daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European
       
  1564 # Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving
       
  1565 # time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government
       
  1566 # urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it
       
  1567 # appears that they will not do so....
       
  1568 
       
  1569 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1570 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1571 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1572 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1573 Zone	Europe/Riga	1:36:24	-	LMT	1880
       
  1574 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1918 Apr 15 2:00 #Riga Mean Time
       
  1575 			1:36:24	1:00	LST	1918 Sep 16 3:00 #Latvian Summer
       
  1576 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1919 Apr  1 2:00
       
  1577 			1:36:24	1:00	LST	1919 May 22 3:00
       
  1578 			1:36:24	-	RMT	1926 May 11
       
  1579 			2:00	-	EET	1940 Aug  5
       
  1580 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jul
       
  1581 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct 13
       
  1582 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s
       
  1583 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s
       
  1584 			2:00	Latvia	EE%sT	1997 Jan 21
       
  1585 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2000 Feb 29
       
  1586 			2:00	-	EET	2001 Jan  2
       
  1587 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1588 
       
  1589 # Liechtenstein
       
  1590 
       
  1591 # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09):
       
  1592 # Shanks & Pottenger say Vaduz is like Zurich.
       
  1593 
       
  1594 # From Alois Treindl (2013-09-18):
       
  1595 # http://www.eliechtensteinensia.li/LIJ/1978/1938-1978/1941.pdf
       
  1596 # ... confirms on p. 6 that Liechtenstein followed Switzerland in 1941 and 1942.
       
  1597 # I ... translate only the last two paragraphs:
       
  1598 #    ... during second world war, in the years 1941 and 1942, Liechtenstein
       
  1599 #    introduced daylight saving time, adapting to Switzerland.  From 1943 on
       
  1600 #    central European time was in force throughout the year.
       
  1601 #    From a report of the duke's government to the high council,
       
  1602 #    regarding the introduction of a time law, of 31 May 1977.
       
  1603 
       
  1604 Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Vaduz
       
  1605 
       
  1606 
       
  1607 # Lithuania
       
  1608 
       
  1609 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
       
  1610 # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
       
  1611 # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
       
  1612 
       
  1613 # From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07):
       
  1614 # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
       
  1615 # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
       
  1616 
       
  1617 # From <a href="http://www.elta.lt/">ELTA</a> No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29),
       
  1618 # via Steffen Thorsen:
       
  1619 # Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours)
       
  1620 # to be valid here starting from October 31,
       
  1621 # as decided by the national government on Wednesday....
       
  1622 # The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a
       
  1623 # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was
       
  1624 # already done by Estonia.
       
  1625 
       
  1626 # From the <a href="http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm">
       
  1627 # Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism
       
  1628 # </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving.
       
  1629 
       
  1630 # From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07):
       
  1631 # As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will
       
  1632 # observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid
       
  1633 # down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its
       
  1634 # neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of
       
  1635 # 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at
       
  1636 # http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm
       
  1637 
       
  1638 
       
  1639 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1640 Zone	Europe/Vilnius	1:41:16	-	LMT	1880
       
  1641 			1:24:00	-	WMT	1917	    # Warsaw Mean Time
       
  1642 			1:35:36	-	KMT	1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time
       
  1643 			1:00	-	CET	1920 Jul 12
       
  1644 			2:00	-	EET	1920 Oct  9
       
  1645 			1:00	-	CET	1940 Aug  3
       
  1646 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Jun 24
       
  1647 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug
       
  1648 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  1649 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
  1650 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998
       
  1651 			2:00	-	EET	1998 Mar 29 1:00u
       
  1652 			1:00	EU	CE%sT	1999 Oct 31 1:00u
       
  1653 			2:00	-	EET	2003 Jan  1
       
  1654 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1655 
       
  1656 # Luxembourg
       
  1657 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways;
       
  1658 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1659 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1660 Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1661 Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  1662 Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Apr	28	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1663 Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Sep	17	 1:00	0	-
       
  1664 Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Apr	Mon>=15	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1665 Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Sep	Mon>=15	 2:00s	0	-
       
  1666 Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1667 Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Oct	 5	 3:00	0	-
       
  1668 Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1669 Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Oct	24	 2:00	0	-
       
  1670 Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1671 Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Oct	26	 2:00	0	-
       
  1672 Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1673 Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
       
  1674 Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Apr	21	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1675 Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 2:00	0	-
       
  1676 Rule	Lux	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1677 Rule	Lux	1924	1928	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
       
  1678 Rule	Lux	1925	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1679 Rule	Lux	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1680 Rule	Lux	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1681 Rule	Lux	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1682 Rule	Lux	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1683 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1684 Zone Europe/Luxembourg	0:24:36 -	LMT	1904 Jun
       
  1685 			1:00	Lux	CE%sT	1918 Nov 25
       
  1686 			0:00	Lux	WE%sT	1929 Oct  6 2:00s
       
  1687 			0:00	Belgium	WE%sT	1940 May 14 3:00
       
  1688 			1:00	C-Eur	WE%sT	1944 Sep 18 3:00
       
  1689 			1:00	Belgium	CE%sT	1977
       
  1690 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1691 
       
  1692 # Macedonia
       
  1693 # See Europe/Belgrade.
       
  1694 
       
  1695 # Malta
       
  1696 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1697 Rule	Malta	1973	only	-	Mar	31	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1698 Rule	Malta	1973	only	-	Sep	29	0:00s	0	-
       
  1699 Rule	Malta	1974	only	-	Apr	21	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1700 Rule	Malta	1974	only	-	Sep	16	0:00s	0	-
       
  1701 Rule	Malta	1975	1979	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1702 Rule	Malta	1975	1980	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
       
  1703 Rule	Malta	1980	only	-	Mar	31	2:00	1:00	S
       
  1704 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1705 Zone	Europe/Malta	0:58:04 -	LMT	1893 Nov  2 0:00s # Valletta
       
  1706 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2 2:00s
       
  1707 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00s
       
  1708 			1:00	Italy	CE%sT	1973 Mar 31
       
  1709 			1:00	Malta	CE%sT	1981
       
  1710 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1711 
       
  1712 # Moldova
       
  1713 
       
  1714 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  1715 # A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write
       
  1716 # that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00.
       
  1717 # However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence
       
  1718 # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree).
       
  1719 # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area
       
  1720 # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time.
       
  1721 # But [two people] separately reported via
       
  1722 # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau.
       
  1723 # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now.
       
  1724 #
       
  1725 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-17):
       
  1726 # Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as
       
  1727 # "Pridnestrovie") has abolished seasonal clock change (no transition
       
  1728 # to the Winter Time).
       
  1729 #
       
  1730 # News (in Russian):
       
  1731 # <a href="http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html">
       
  1732 # http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html
       
  1733 # </a>
       
  1734 #
       
  1735 # <a href="http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html">
       
  1736 # http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html
       
  1737 # </a>
       
  1738 #
       
  1739 # The substance of this change (reinstatement of the Tiraspol entry)
       
  1740 # is from a patch from Petr Machata (2011-10-17)
       
  1741 #
       
  1742 # From Tim Parenti (2011-10-19)
       
  1743 # In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspol
       
  1744 # a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32.
       
  1745 #
       
  1746 # (which agrees with the earlier entry that had been removed)
       
  1747 #
       
  1748 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-26)
       
  1749 # NO need to divide Moldova into two timezones at this point.
       
  1750 # As of today, Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- Tiraspol reversed its own
       
  1751 # decision to abolish DST this winter.
       
  1752 # Following Moldova and neighboring Ukraine- Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)-
       
  1753 # Tiraspol will go back to winter time on October 30, 2011.
       
  1754 # News from Moldova (in russian):
       
  1755 # <a href="http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html">
       
  1756 # http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html
       
  1757 # </a>
       
  1758 
       
  1759 
       
  1760 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1761 Zone	Europe/Chisinau	1:55:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  1762 			1:55	-	CMT	1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT
       
  1763 			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT
       
  1764 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1940 Aug 15
       
  1765 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1941 Jul 17
       
  1766 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 24
       
  1767 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  1768 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 May 6
       
  1769 			2:00	-	EET	1991
       
  1770 			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992
       
  1771 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
  1772 # See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
       
  1773 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  1774 
       
  1775 # Monaco
       
  1776 # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
       
  1777 # more precise 0:09:21.
       
  1778 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1779 Zone	Europe/Monaco	0:29:32 -	LMT	1891 Mar 15
       
  1780 			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 11    # Paris Mean Time
       
  1781 			0:00	France	WE%sT	1945 Sep 16 3:00
       
  1782 			1:00	France	CE%sT	1977
       
  1783 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1784 
       
  1785 # Montenegro
       
  1786 # See Europe/Belgrade.
       
  1787 
       
  1788 # Netherlands
       
  1789 
       
  1790 # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940,
       
  1791 # but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1792 
       
  1793 # However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01):
       
  1794 # Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00
       
  1795 # Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including
       
  1796 # the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time
       
  1797 # (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the
       
  1798 # common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was
       
  1799 # not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law.
       
  1800 # On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and
       
  1801 # was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd").
       
  1802 #
       
  1803 # (2001-04-08):
       
  1804 # 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to
       
  1805 # observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common
       
  1806 # practice of following Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1807 #
       
  1808 # (2001-04-09):
       
  1809 # In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the
       
  1810 # municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe
       
  1811 # Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was
       
  1812 # actually followed.
       
  1813 #
       
  1814 # From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to
       
  1815 # observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of
       
  1816 # Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most
       
  1817 # places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically
       
  1818 # adopted Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1819 #
       
  1820 # Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety
       
  1821 # of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it
       
  1822 # was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe
       
  1823 # Amsterdam mean time.
       
  1824 
       
  1825 # The data before 1945 are taken from
       
  1826 # <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm>.
       
  1827 
       
  1828 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1829 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	NST	# Netherlands Summer Time
       
  1830 Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	AMT	# Amsterdam Mean Time
       
  1831 Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Apr	16	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1832 Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1833 Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Apr	Mon>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1834 Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Sep	lastMon	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1835 Rule	Neth	1922	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1836 Rule	Neth	1922	1936	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	AMT
       
  1837 Rule	Neth	1923	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1838 Rule	Neth	1924	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1839 Rule	Neth	1925	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1840 # From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week
       
  1841 # in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend.
       
  1842 Rule	Neth	1926	1931	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1843 Rule	Neth	1932	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1844 Rule	Neth	1933	1936	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1845 Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
       
  1846 Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1847 Rule	Neth	1937	1939	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	-
       
  1848 Rule	Neth	1938	1939	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1849 Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1850 Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Sep	16	2:00s	0	-
       
  1851 #
       
  1852 # Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 exactly, but the .13 is omitted
       
  1853 # below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer.
       
  1854 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1855 Zone Europe/Amsterdam	0:19:32 -	LMT	1835
       
  1856 			0:19:32	Neth	%s	1937 Jul  1
       
  1857 			0:20	Neth	NE%sT	1940 May 16 0:00 # Dutch Time
       
  1858 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2 2:00
       
  1859 			1:00	Neth	CE%sT	1977
       
  1860 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1861 
       
  1862 # Norway
       
  1863 # http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks &
       
  1864 # Pottenger.
       
  1865 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1866 Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	May	22	1:00	1:00	S
       
  1867 Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
       
  1868 Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1869 Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1870 Rule	Norway	1959	1964	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1871 Rule	Norway	1959	1965	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
       
  1872 Rule	Norway	1965	only	-	Apr	25	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1873 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1874 Zone	Europe/Oslo	0:43:00 -	LMT	1895 Jan  1
       
  1875 			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1940 Aug 10 23:00
       
  1876 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
       
  1877 			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1980
       
  1878 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1879 
       
  1880 # Svalbard & Jan Mayen
       
  1881 
       
  1882 # From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01):
       
  1883 # Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and
       
  1884 # Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the
       
  1885 # time they were declared as parts of Norway.  Svalbard was declared
       
  1886 # as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan
       
  1887 # Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From
       
  1888 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html and
       
  1889 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html).  The law/regulation
       
  1890 # for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came
       
  1891 # into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a
       
  1892 # part of this law since 1925/1930. (From
       
  1893 # http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html ) I have not been
       
  1894 # able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100)
       
  1895 # before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabitated" since 1921 by
       
  1896 # Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever
       
  1897 # since 1921.  Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since
       
  1898 # before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere
       
  1899 # between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive).
       
  1900 
       
  1901 # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-04):
       
  1902 #
       
  1903 # Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II,
       
  1904 # so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was
       
  1905 # keeping Berlin time.
       
  1906 #
       
  1907 # <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists
       
  1908 # burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in
       
  1909 # 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite
       
  1910 # frequent air ttacks from Germans.  In 1943 the Americans established a
       
  1911 # radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City".  Possibly
       
  1912 # the UT offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that
       
  1913 # Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules.
       
  1914 #
       
  1915 # Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an
       
  1916 # Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says
       
  1917 # <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>).  The Svalbard FAQ
       
  1918 # <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were
       
  1919 # expelled on 1942-05-14.  However, small parties of Germans did return,
       
  1920 # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954)
       
  1921 # <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html>
       
  1922 # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named
       
  1923 # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945.
       
  1924 #
       
  1925 # All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970, so use Europe/Oslo
       
  1926 # for these regions.
       
  1927 Link	Europe/Oslo	Arctic/Longyearbyen
       
  1928 
       
  1929 # Poland
       
  1930 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1931 Rule	Poland	1918	1919	-	Sep	16	2:00s	0	-
       
  1932 Rule	Poland	1919	only	-	Apr	15	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1933 Rule	Poland	1944	only	-	Apr	 3	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1934 # Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1935 Rule	Poland	1944	only	-	Oct	 4	2:00	0	-
       
  1936 # For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1937 Rule	Poland	1945	only	-	Apr	29	0:00	1:00	S
       
  1938 Rule	Poland	1945	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  1939 # For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski,
       
  1940 # Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U.,
       
  1941 # <http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1>
       
  1942 # Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference.
       
  1943 # He also gives these further references:
       
  1944 # Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm>
       
  1945 # Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf>
       
  1946 Rule	Poland	1946	only	-	Apr	14	0:00s	1:00	S
       
  1947 Rule	Poland	1946	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	0	-
       
  1948 Rule	Poland	1947	only	-	May	 4	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1949 Rule	Poland	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
       
  1950 Rule	Poland	1948	only	-	Apr	18	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1951 Rule	Poland	1949	only	-	Apr	10	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  1952 Rule	Poland	1957	only	-	Jun	 2	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1953 Rule	Poland	1957	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  1954 Rule	Poland	1958	only	-	Mar	30	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1955 Rule	Poland	1959	only	-	May	31	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1956 Rule	Poland	1959	1961	-	Oct	Sun>=1	1:00s	0	-
       
  1957 Rule	Poland	1960	only	-	Apr	 3	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1958 Rule	Poland	1961	1964	-	May	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  1959 Rule	Poland	1962	1964	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  1960 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  1961 Zone	Europe/Warsaw	1:24:00 -	LMT	1880
       
  1962 			1:24:00	-	WMT	1915 Aug  5   # Warsaw Mean Time
       
  1963 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1918 Sep 16 3:00
       
  1964 			2:00	Poland	EE%sT	1922 Jun
       
  1965 			1:00	Poland	CE%sT	1940 Jun 23 2:00
       
  1966 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct
       
  1967 			1:00	Poland	CE%sT	1977
       
  1968 			1:00	W-Eur	CE%sT	1988
       
  1969 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  1970 
       
  1971 # Portugal
       
  1972 #
       
  1973 # From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12):
       
  1974 # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
       
  1975 # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC.
       
  1976 #
       
  1977 # Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve
       
  1978 # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring.
       
  1979 # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter.
       
  1980 #
       
  1981 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12):
       
  1982 # IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions
       
  1983 # at 02:00u, not 01:00u.  Assume that these are typos.
       
  1984 # IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00.
       
  1985 # IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00.
       
  1986 # Guess that the Azores changed to EU rules in 1992 (since that's when Portugal
       
  1987 # harmonized with the EU), and that they stayed +0:00 that winter.
       
  1988 #
       
  1989 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  1990 # DSH writes that despite Decree 1,469 (1915), the change to the clocks was not
       
  1991 # done every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules.
       
  1992 # Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1993 Rule	Port	1916	only	-	Jun	17	23:00	1:00	S
       
  1994 # Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  1995 Rule	Port	1916	only	-	Nov	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  1996 Rule	Port	1917	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1997 Rule	Port	1917	1921	-	Oct	14	23:00s	0	-
       
  1998 Rule	Port	1918	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  1999 Rule	Port	1919	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2000 Rule	Port	1920	only	-	Feb	29	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2001 Rule	Port	1921	only	-	Feb	28	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2002 Rule	Port	1924	only	-	Apr	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2003 Rule	Port	1924	only	-	Oct	14	23:00s	0	-
       
  2004 Rule	Port	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2005 Rule	Port	1926	1929	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2006 Rule	Port	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2007 Rule	Port	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2008 Rule	Port	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2009 Rule	Port	1931	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2010 # Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2011 Rule	Port	1931	1932	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2012 Rule	Port	1932	only	-	Apr	 2	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2013 Rule	Port	1934	only	-	Apr	 7	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2014 # Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2015 Rule	Port	1934	1938	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2016 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman.
       
  2017 Rule	Port	1935	only	-	Mar	30	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2018 Rule	Port	1936	only	-	Apr	18	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2019 # Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2020 Rule	Port	1937	only	-	Apr	 3	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2021 Rule	Port	1938	only	-	Mar	26	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2022 Rule	Port	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2023 # Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2024 Rule	Port	1939	only	-	Nov	18	23:00s	0	-
       
  2025 Rule	Port	1940	only	-	Feb	24	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2026 # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman.
       
  2027 Rule	Port	1940	1941	-	Oct	 5	23:00s	0	-
       
  2028 Rule	Port	1941	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2029 Rule	Port	1942	1945	-	Mar	Sat>=8	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2030 Rule	Port	1942	only	-	Apr	25	22:00s	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  2031 Rule	Port	1942	only	-	Aug	15	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2032 Rule	Port	1942	1945	-	Oct	Sat>=24	23:00s	0	-
       
  2033 Rule	Port	1943	only	-	Apr	17	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  2034 Rule	Port	1943	1945	-	Aug	Sat>=25	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2035 Rule	Port	1944	1945	-	Apr	Sat>=21	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  2036 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2037 Rule	Port	1946	only	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2038 Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  2039 Rule	Port	1947	1949	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  2040 # Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman.
       
  2041 # Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2042 Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  2043 Rule	Port	1951	1965	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 2:00s	0	-
       
  2044 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Mar	27	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2045 Rule	Port	1977	only	-	Sep	25	 0:00s	0	-
       
  2046 Rule	Port	1978	1979	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2047 Rule	Port	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00s	0	-
       
  2048 Rule	Port	1979	1982	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00s	0	-
       
  2049 Rule	Port	1980	only	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2050 Rule	Port	1981	1982	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00s	1:00	S
       
  2051 Rule	Port	1983	only	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
       
  2052 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2053 # Shanks & Pottenger say the transition from LMT to WET occurred 1911-05-24;
       
  2054 # Willett says 1912-01-01.  Go with Willett.
       
  2055 Zone	Europe/Lisbon	-0:36:32 -	LMT	1884
       
  2056 			-0:36:32 -	LMT	1912 Jan  1  # Lisbon Mean Time
       
  2057 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00
       
  2058 			 1:00	-	CET	1976 Sep 26 1:00
       
  2059 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  2060 			 0:00	W-Eur	WE%sT	1992 Sep 27 1:00s
       
  2061 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT	1996 Mar 31 1:00u
       
  2062 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  2063 Zone Atlantic/Azores	-1:42:40 -	LMT	1884		# Ponta Delgada
       
  2064 			-1:54:32 -	HMT	1911 May 24  # Horta Mean Time
       
  2065 			-2:00	Port	AZO%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00 # Azores Time
       
  2066 			-1:00	Port	AZO%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  2067 			-1:00	W-Eur	AZO%sT	1992 Sep 27 1:00s
       
  2068 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT	1993 Mar 28 1:00u
       
  2069 			-1:00	EU	AZO%sT
       
  2070 Zone Atlantic/Madeira	-1:07:36 -	LMT	1884		# Funchal
       
  2071 			-1:07:36 -	FMT	1911 May 24  # Funchal Mean Time
       
  2072 			-1:00	Port	MAD%sT	1966 Apr  3 2:00 # Madeira Time
       
  2073 			 0:00	Port	WE%sT	1983 Sep 25 1:00s
       
  2074 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  2075 
       
  2076 # Romania
       
  2077 #
       
  2078 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07):
       
  2079 # <a href="http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html">
       
  2080 # Nine O'clock</a> (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at
       
  2081 # 04:00 local time in fall 1998.  For lack of better info,
       
  2082 # assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997,
       
  2083 # the same year as Bulgaria.
       
  2084 #
       
  2085 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2086 Rule	Romania	1932	only	-	May	21	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2087 Rule	Romania	1932	1939	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 0:00s	0	-
       
  2088 Rule	Romania	1933	1939	-	Apr	Sun>=2	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2089 Rule	Romania	1979	only	-	May	27	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2090 Rule	Romania	1979	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
       
  2091 Rule	Romania	1980	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2092 Rule	Romania	1980	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
       
  2093 Rule	Romania	1991	1993	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00s	1:00	S
       
  2094 Rule	Romania	1991	1993	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00s	0	-
       
  2095 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2096 Zone Europe/Bucharest	1:44:24 -	LMT	1891 Oct
       
  2097 			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24	# Bucharest MT
       
  2098 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1981 Mar 29 2:00s
       
  2099 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1991
       
  2100 			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1994
       
  2101 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1997
       
  2102 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2103 
       
  2104 # Russia
       
  2105 
       
  2106 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15):
       
  2107 # Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011
       
  2108 # (Government document
       
  2109 # <a href="http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/">
       
  2110 # http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
       
  2111 # </a>
       
  2112 # in Russian)
       
  2113 # there are few corrections have to be made for some Russian time zones...
       
  2114 # All updated Russian Time Zones were placed in table and translated to English
       
  2115 # by WorldTimeZone.com at the link below:
       
  2116 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm">
       
  2117 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm
       
  2118 # </a>
       
  2119 
       
  2120 # From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27):
       
  2121 # Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
       
  2122 # <a href="http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966">
       
  2123 # http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966
       
  2124 # They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian).
       
  2125 
       
  2126 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
       
  2127 # Regarding the instant when clocks in time-zone-shifting parts of Russia
       
  2128 # changed in September 2011:
       
  2129 #
       
  2130 # One source is
       
  2131 # < a href="http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/>
       
  2132 # http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/
       
  2133 # </a>
       
  2134 # which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31,
       
  2135 # 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
       
  2136 #
       
  2137 # Another source is
       
  2138 # <a href="http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html">
       
  2139 # http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html
       
  2140 # </a>
       
  2141 # which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the
       
  2142 # Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also
       
  2143 # contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on:
       
  2144 # in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
       
  2145 # does not contain any "effective date" information.
       
  2146 #
       
  2147 # Another source is
       
  2148 # <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7">
       
  2149 # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7
       
  2150 # </a>
       
  2151 # which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011...
       
  2152 # Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
       
  2153 # but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011.
       
  2154 #
       
  2155 # The Wikipedia article refers to
       
  2156 # <a href="http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896">
       
  2157 # http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896
       
  2158 # </a>
       
  2159 # which seems to copy the text of the government.ru page.
       
  2160 #
       
  2161 # Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's
       
  2162 # "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
       
  2163 # with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to get
       
  2164 # September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias Conradi notes).
       
  2165 #
       
  2166 # None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks.
       
  2167 #
       
  2168 # Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s.
       
  2169 
       
  2170 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  2171 # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations.
       
  2172 # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991,
       
  2173 # are from Andrey A. Chernov.  The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger,
       
  2174 # except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat
       
  2175 # 23:00, not Sun 02:00s.
       
  2176 #
       
  2177 # From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29):
       
  2178 # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
       
  2179 # I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
       
  2180 # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
       
  2181 # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch.
       
  2182 #
       
  2183 # From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04):
       
  2184 # 'MSK' and 'MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with
       
  2185 # UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group)....
       
  2186 # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor
       
  2187 # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there.
       
  2188 #
       
  2189 # From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30):
       
  2190 # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from
       
  2191 # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ...
       
  2192 # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located.
       
  2193 #
       
  2194 # For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from
       
  2195 # John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07):
       
  2196 # News--often false--is spread by word of mouth.  A rumor that it was
       
  2197 # time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with
       
  2198 # the rest of Russia for two weeks--even soldiers stationed here began
       
  2199 # enforcing curfew at the wrong time.
       
  2200 #
       
  2201 # From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05):
       
  2202 # There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in
       
  2203 # UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade.  I start with the
       
  2204 # SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan
       
  2205 # until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok
       
  2206 # since September 1997....  Although the Kuril Islands are
       
  2207 # administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have
       
  2208 # remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan.
       
  2209 #
       
  2210 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2211 #
       
  2212 # Kaliningradskaya oblast'.
       
  2213 Zone Europe/Kaliningrad	 1:22:00 -	LMT	1893 Apr
       
  2214 			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945
       
  2215 			 2:00	Poland	CE%sT	1946
       
  2216 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2217 			 2:00	Russia	EE%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2218 			 3:00	-	FET # Further-eastern European Time
       
  2219 #
       
  2220 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2221 # Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast',
       
  2222 # Belgorodskaya oblast', Bryanskaya oblast', Vladimirskaya oblast',
       
  2223 # Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast',
       
  2224 # Respublika Dagestan, Ivanovskaya oblast', Respublika Ingushetiya,
       
  2225 # Kabarbino-Balkarskaya Respublika, Respublika Kalmykiya,
       
  2226 # Kalyzhskaya oblast', Respublika Karachaevo-Cherkessiya,
       
  2227 # Respublika Kareliya, Respublika Komi,
       
  2228 # Kostromskaya oblast', Krasnodarskij kraj, Kurskaya oblast',
       
  2229 # Leningradskaya oblast', Lipetskaya oblast', Respublika Marij El,
       
  2230 # Respublika Mordoviya, Moskva, Moskovskaya oblast',
       
  2231 # Murmanskaya oblast', Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  2232 # Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Novgorodskaya oblast', Orlovskaya oblast',
       
  2233 # Penzenskaya oblast', Pskovskaya oblast', Rostovskaya oblast',
       
  2234 # Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg,
       
  2235 # Respublika Severnaya Osetiya, Smolenskaya oblast',
       
  2236 # Stavropol'skij kraj, Tambovskaya oblast', Respublika Tatarstan,
       
  2237 # Tverskaya oblast', Tyl'skaya oblast', Ul'yanovskaya oblast',
       
  2238 # Chechenskaya Respublika, Chuvashskaya oblast',
       
  2239 # Yaroslavskaya oblast'
       
  2240 Zone Europe/Moscow	 2:30:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  2241 			 2:30	-	MMT	1916 Jul  3 # Moscow Mean Time
       
  2242 			 2:30:48 Russia	%s	1919 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2243 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1922 Oct
       
  2244 			 2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2245 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2246 			 2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2247 			 3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2248 			 4:00	-	MSK
       
  2249 #
       
  2250 # Astrakhanskaya oblast', Kirovskaya oblast', Saratovskaya oblast',
       
  2251 # Volgogradskaya oblast'.  Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400
       
  2252 # but Wikipedia (2006-05-09) says +0300.  Perhaps it switched after the
       
  2253 # others?  But we have no data.
       
  2254 Zone Europe/Volgograd	 2:57:40 -	LMT	1920 Jan  3
       
  2255 			 3:00	-	TSAT	1925 Apr  6 # Tsaritsyn Time
       
  2256 			 3:00	-	STAT	1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time
       
  2257 			 4:00	-	STAT	1961 Nov 11
       
  2258 			 4:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T
       
  2259 			 3:00	Russia	VOL%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2260 			 4:00	-	VOLT	1992 Mar 29 2:00s
       
  2261 			 3:00	Russia	VOL%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2262 			 4:00	-	VOLT
       
  2263 #
       
  2264 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2265 # Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika
       
  2266 Zone Europe/Samara	 3:20:36 -	LMT	1919 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2267 			 3:00	-	SAMT	1930 Jun 21
       
  2268 			 4:00	-	SAMT	1935 Jan 27
       
  2269 			 4:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Kuybyshev
       
  2270 			 3:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2271 			 2:00	Russia	KUY%sT	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
       
  2272 			 3:00	-	KUYT	1991 Oct 20 3:00
       
  2273 			 4:00	Russia	SAM%sT	2010 Mar 28 2:00s # Samara Time
       
  2274 			 3:00	Russia	SAM%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2275 			 4:00	-	SAMT
       
  2276 
       
  2277 #
       
  2278 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2279 # Respublika Bashkortostan, Komi-Permyatskij avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  2280 # Kurganskaya oblast', Orenburgskaya oblast', Permskaya oblast',
       
  2281 # Sverdlovskaya oblast', Tyumenskaya oblast',
       
  2282 # Khanty-Manskijskij avtonomnyj okrug, Chelyabinskaya oblast',
       
  2283 # Yamalo-Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2284 Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg	 4:02:24 -	LMT	1919 Jul 15 4:00
       
  2285 			 4:00	-	SVET	1930 Jun 21 # Sverdlovsk Time
       
  2286 			 5:00	Russia	SVE%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2287 			 4:00	Russia	SVE%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2288 			 5:00	Russia	YEK%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2289 			 6:00	-	YEKT	# Yekaterinburg Time
       
  2290 #
       
  2291 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2292 # Respublika Altaj, Altajskij kraj, Omskaya oblast'.
       
  2293 Zone Asia/Omsk		 4:53:36 -	LMT	1919 Nov 14
       
  2294 			 5:00	-	OMST	1930 Jun 21 # Omsk TIme
       
  2295 			 6:00	Russia	OMS%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2296 			 5:00	Russia	OMS%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2297 			 6:00	Russia	OMS%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2298 			 7:00	-	OMST
       
  2299 #
       
  2300 # From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's
       
  2301 # not clear when it switched from +7 to +6.
       
  2302 # Novosibirskaya oblast', Tomskaya oblast'.
       
  2303 Zone Asia/Novosibirsk	 5:31:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 14 6:00
       
  2304 			 6:00	-	NOVT	1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time
       
  2305 			 7:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2306 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2307 			 7:00	Russia	NOV%sT	1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P.
       
  2308 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2309 			 7:00	-	NOVT
       
  2310 
       
  2311 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-10-13):
       
  2312 # Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current time zone on
       
  2313 # March 28, 2010:
       
  2314 # from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700
       
  2315 # to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600
       
  2316 #
       
  2317 # This is according to Government of Russia decree # 740, on September
       
  2318 # 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth
       
  2319 # time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600)
       
  2320 #
       
  2321 # Russian Government web site (Russian language)
       
  2322 # <a href="http://www.government.ru/content/governmentactivity/rfgovernmentdecisions/archiv">
       
  2323 # http://www.government.ru/content/governmentactivity/rfgovernmentdecisions/archive/2009/09/14/991633.htm
       
  2324 # </a>
       
  2325 # or Russian-English translation by WorldTimeZone.com with reference
       
  2326 # map to local region and new Russia Time Zone map after March 28, 2010
       
  2327 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia03.html">
       
  2328 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia03.html
       
  2329 # </a>
       
  2330 #
       
  2331 # Thus, when Russia will switch to DST on the night of March 28, 2010
       
  2332 # Kemerovo region (Kemerovo oblast') will not change the clock.
       
  2333 #
       
  2334 # As a result, Kemerovo oblast' will be in the same time zone as
       
  2335 # Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Barnaul and Altai Republic.
       
  2336 
       
  2337 Zone Asia/Novokuznetsk	 5:48:48 -	NMT	1920 Jan  6
       
  2338 			 6:00	-	KRAT	1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time
       
  2339 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2340 			 6:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2341 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	2010 Mar 28 2:00s
       
  2342 			 6:00	Russia	NOV%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2343 			 7:00	-	NOVT # Novosibirsk/Novokuznetsk Time
       
  2344 
       
  2345 #
       
  2346 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2347 # Krasnoyarskij kraj,
       
  2348 # Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug,
       
  2349 # Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2350 Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk	 6:11:20 -	LMT	1920 Jan  6
       
  2351 			 6:00	-	KRAT	1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time
       
  2352 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2353 			 6:00	Russia	KRA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2354 			 7:00	Russia	KRA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2355 			 8:00	-	KRAT
       
  2356 #
       
  2357 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2358 # Respublika Buryatiya, Irkutskaya oblast',
       
  2359 # Ust'-Ordynskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2360 Zone Asia/Irkutsk	 6:57:20 -	LMT	1880
       
  2361 			 6:57:20 -	IMT	1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time
       
  2362 			 7:00	-	IRKT	1930 Jun 21 # Irkutsk Time
       
  2363 			 8:00	Russia	IRK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2364 			 7:00	Russia	IRK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2365 			 8:00	Russia	IRK%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2366 			 9:00	-	IRKT
       
  2367 #
       
  2368 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2369 # Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast',
       
  2370 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Chitinskaya oblast'.
       
  2371 
       
  2372 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
       
  2373 # ...some regions of [Russia] were merged with others since 2005...
       
  2374 # Some names were changed, no big deal, except for one instance: a new name.
       
  2375 # YAK/YAKST: UTC+9 Zabajkal'skij kraj.
       
  2376 
       
  2377 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
       
  2378 # The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij,
       
  2379 # Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj,
       
  2380 # Zhiganskij, Kobyajskij, Lenskij, Megino-Kangalasskij, Mirninskij,
       
  2381 # Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenyokskij, Olyokminskij,
       
  2382 # Suntarskij, Tattinskij, Ust'-Aldanskij, Khangalasskij,
       
  2383 # Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij Natsional'nij.
       
  2384 
       
  2385 Zone Asia/Yakutsk	 8:38:40 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
       
  2386 			 8:00	-	YAKT	1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
       
  2387 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2388 			 8:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2389 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2390 			 10:00	-	YAKT
       
  2391 #
       
  2392 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2393 # Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj,
       
  2394 # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
       
  2395 
       
  2396 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
       
  2397 # The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, ... Ust'-Yanskij.
       
  2398 Zone Asia/Vladivostok	 8:47:44 -	LMT	1922 Nov 15
       
  2399 			 9:00	-	VLAT	1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time
       
  2400 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2401 			 9:00	Russia	VLA%sST	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2402 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2403 			11:00	-	VLAT
       
  2404 
       
  2405 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
       
  2406 # Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time
       
  2407 # in 2011.
       
  2408 #
       
  2409 # From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25):
       
  2410 # Shanks and Pottenger (2003) has Khandyga on Yakutsk time.
       
  2411 # Make a wild guess that it switched to Vladivostok time in 2004.
       
  2412 # This transition is no doubt wrong, but we have no better info.
       
  2413 #
       
  2414 Zone Asia/Khandyga	 9:02:13 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
       
  2415 			 8:00	-	YAKT	1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
       
  2416 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2417 			 8:00	Russia	YAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2418 			 9:00	Russia	YAK%sT	2004
       
  2419 			10:00	Russia	VLA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2420 			11:00	-	VLAT	2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
       
  2421 			10:00	-	YAKT
       
  2422 
       
  2423 #
       
  2424 # Sakhalinskaya oblast'.
       
  2425 # The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long.
       
  2426 Zone Asia/Sakhalin	 9:30:48 -	LMT	1905 Aug 23
       
  2427 			 9:00	-	CJT	1938
       
  2428 			 9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 25
       
  2429 			11:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T.
       
  2430 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2431 			11:00	Russia	SAK%sT	1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s
       
  2432 			10:00	Russia	SAK%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2433 			11:00	-	SAKT
       
  2434 #
       
  2435 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of]
       
  2436 # Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya).
       
  2437 # Probably also: Kuril Islands.
       
  2438 
       
  2439 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29):
       
  2440 # The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Verkhhhnekolymskij, Momskij,
       
  2441 # Nizhnekolymskij, ... Srednekolymskij.
       
  2442 Zone Asia/Magadan	10:03:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
       
  2443 			10:00	-	MAGT	1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time
       
  2444 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2445 			10:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2446 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2447 			12:00	-	MAGT
       
  2448 
       
  2449 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09):
       
  2450 # Ojmyakonskij and the Kuril Islands switched from
       
  2451 # Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011.
       
  2452 Zone Asia/Ust-Nera	 9:32:54 -	LMT	1919 Dec 15
       
  2453 			 8:00	-	YAKT	1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time
       
  2454 			 9:00	Russia	YAKT	1981 Apr  1
       
  2455 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2456 			10:00	Russia	MAG%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2457 			11:00	Russia	MAG%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2458 			12:00	-	MAGT	2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725?
       
  2459 			11:00	-	VLAT
       
  2460 
       
  2461 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of]
       
  2462 # Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug.
       
  2463 #
       
  2464 # The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long.
       
  2465 Zone Asia/Kamchatka	10:34:36 -	LMT	1922 Nov 10
       
  2466 			11:00	-	PETT	1930 Jun 21 # P-K Time
       
  2467 			12:00	Russia	PET%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2468 			11:00	Russia	PET%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2469 			12:00	Russia	PET%sT	2010 Mar 28 2:00s
       
  2470 			11:00	Russia	PET%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2471 			12:00	-	PETT
       
  2472 #
       
  2473 # Chukotskij avtonomnyj okrug
       
  2474 Zone Asia/Anadyr	11:49:56 -	LMT	1924 May  2
       
  2475 			12:00	-	ANAT	1930 Jun 21 # Anadyr Time
       
  2476 			13:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1982 Apr  1 0:00s
       
  2477 			12:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
       
  2478 			11:00	Russia	ANA%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
       
  2479 			12:00	Russia	ANA%sT	2010 Mar 28 2:00s
       
  2480 			11:00	Russia	ANA%sT	2011 Mar 27 2:00s
       
  2481 			12:00	-	ANAT
       
  2482 
       
  2483 # San Marino
       
  2484 # See Europe/Rome.
       
  2485 
       
  2486 # Serbia
       
  2487 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2488 Zone	Europe/Belgrade	1:22:00	-	LMT	1884
       
  2489 			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
       
  2490 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945
       
  2491 			1:00	-	CET	1945 May 8 2:00s
       
  2492 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
       
  2493 # Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of
       
  2494 # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time.
       
  2495 # Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
       
  2496 			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
       
  2497 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2498 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana	# Slovenia
       
  2499 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica	# Montenegro
       
  2500 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo	# Bosnia and Herzegovina
       
  2501 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje	# Macedonia
       
  2502 Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb	# Croatia
       
  2503 
       
  2504 # Slovakia
       
  2505 Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
       
  2506 
       
  2507 # Slovenia
       
  2508 # See Europe/Belgrade.
       
  2509 
       
  2510 # Spain
       
  2511 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2512 # For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1;
       
  2513 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2514 Rule	Spain	1917	only	-	May	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2515 Rule	Spain	1917	1919	-	Oct	 6	23:00s	0	-
       
  2516 Rule	Spain	1918	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2517 Rule	Spain	1919	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2518 # Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2519 Rule	Spain	1924	only	-	Apr	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2520 # Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2521 Rule	Spain	1924	only	-	Oct	 4	23:00s	0	-
       
  2522 Rule	Spain	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2523 # Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2524 Rule	Spain	1926	1929	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2525 Rule	Spain	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2526 Rule	Spain	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2527 Rule	Spain	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2528 # Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13;
       
  2529 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2530 Rule	Spain	1937	only	-	May	22	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2531 Rule	Spain	1937	1939	-	Oct	Sat>=1	23:00s	0	-
       
  2532 Rule	Spain	1938	only	-	Mar	22	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2533 Rule	Spain	1939	only	-	Apr	15	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2534 Rule	Spain	1940	only	-	Mar	16	23:00s	1:00	S
       
  2535 # Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2536 Rule	Spain	1942	only	-	May	 2	22:00s	2:00	M # Midsummer
       
  2537 Rule	Spain	1942	only	-	Sep	 1	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2538 Rule	Spain	1943	1946	-	Apr	Sat>=13	22:00s	2:00	M
       
  2539 Rule	Spain	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2540 Rule	Spain	1944	only	-	Oct	10	22:00s	1:00	S
       
  2541 Rule	Spain	1945	only	-	Sep	30	 1:00	1:00	S
       
  2542 Rule	Spain	1946	only	-	Sep	30	 0:00	0	-
       
  2543 Rule	Spain	1949	only	-	Apr	30	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2544 Rule	Spain	1949	only	-	Sep	30	 1:00	0	-
       
  2545 Rule	Spain	1974	1975	-	Apr	Sat>=13	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2546 Rule	Spain	1974	1975	-	Oct	Sun>=1	 1:00	0	-
       
  2547 Rule	Spain	1976	only	-	Mar	27	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2548 Rule	Spain	1976	1977	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
       
  2549 Rule	Spain	1977	1978	-	Apr	 2	23:00	1:00	S
       
  2550 Rule	Spain	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
       
  2551 # The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978.
       
  2552 Rule SpainAfrica 1967	only	-	Jun	 3	12:00	1:00	S
       
  2553 Rule SpainAfrica 1967	only	-	Oct	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2554 Rule SpainAfrica 1974	only	-	Jun	24	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2555 Rule SpainAfrica 1974	only	-	Sep	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2556 Rule SpainAfrica 1976	1977	-	May	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2557 Rule SpainAfrica 1976	only	-	Aug	 1	 0:00	0	-
       
  2558 Rule SpainAfrica 1977	only	-	Sep	28	 0:00	0	-
       
  2559 Rule SpainAfrica 1978	only	-	Jun	 1	 0:00	1:00	S
       
  2560 Rule SpainAfrica 1978	only	-	Aug	 4	 0:00	0	-
       
  2561 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2562 Zone	Europe/Madrid	-0:14:44 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1  0:00s
       
  2563 			 0:00	Spain	WE%sT	1946 Sep 30
       
  2564 			 1:00	Spain	CE%sT	1979
       
  2565 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2566 Zone	Africa/Ceuta	-0:21:16 -	LMT	1901
       
  2567 			 0:00	-	WET	1918 May  6 23:00
       
  2568 			 0:00	1:00	WEST	1918 Oct  7 23:00
       
  2569 			 0:00	-	WET	1924
       
  2570 			 0:00	Spain	WE%sT	1929
       
  2571 			 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
       
  2572 			 1:00	-	CET	1986
       
  2573 			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2574 Zone	Atlantic/Canary	-1:01:36 -	LMT	1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
       
  2575 			-1:00	-	CANT	1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries Time
       
  2576 			 0:00	-	WET	1980 Apr  6 0:00s
       
  2577 			 0:00	1:00	WEST	1980 Sep 28 0:00s
       
  2578 			 0:00	EU	WE%sT
       
  2579 # IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u.
       
  2580 # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
       
  2581 
       
  2582 # Sweden
       
  2583 
       
  2584 # From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger:
       
  2585 #
       
  2586 # The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879:
       
  2587 # From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all
       
  2588 # places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at
       
  2589 # three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the
       
  2590 # meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm".  The law is dated 1878-05-31.
       
  2591 #
       
  2592 # The observatory at that time had the meridian 18 degrees 03' 30"
       
  2593 # eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time.  Less 12 minutes gives the
       
  2594 # national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT....
       
  2595 #
       
  2596 # About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk
       
  2597 # forfattningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning
       
  2598 # of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at
       
  2599 # the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English
       
  2600 # observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west
       
  2601 # from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated
       
  2602 # 1899-06-16.  In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time
       
  2603 # in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT.
       
  2604 #
       
  2605 # 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk forfattningssamling 1916, no 124") states
       
  2606 # that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is
       
  2607 # pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00....
       
  2608 # Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later".
       
  2609 #
       
  2610 # The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish
       
  2611 # Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are
       
  2612 # not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available
       
  2613 # in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type
       
  2614 # "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click
       
  2615 # the Sok-button).
       
  2616 #
       
  2617 # (2001-05-13):
       
  2618 #
       
  2619 # I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00
       
  2620 # summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show
       
  2621 # 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time.  The article also reports that some
       
  2622 # people thought the switch to standard time would take place already
       
  2623 # at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another
       
  2624 # hour before the event took place.
       
  2625 #
       
  2626 # Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left.
       
  2627 
       
  2628 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2629 Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1879 Jan  1
       
  2630 			1:00:14	-	SET	1900 Jan  1	# Swedish Time
       
  2631 			1:00	-	CET	1916 May 14 23:00
       
  2632 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1916 Oct  1 01:00
       
  2633 			1:00	-	CET	1980
       
  2634 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2635 
       
  2636 # Switzerland
       
  2637 # From Howse:
       
  2638 # By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace
       
  2639 # and their performance improved enormously.  Communities began to keep
       
  2640 # mean time in preference to apparent time -- Geneva from 1780 ....
       
  2641 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2642 # From Whitman (who writes "Midnight?"):
       
  2643 # Rule	Swiss	1940	only	-	Nov	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2644 # Rule	Swiss	1940	only	-	Dec	31	0:00	0	-
       
  2645 # From Shanks & Pottenger:
       
  2646 # Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
       
  2647 # Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
       
  2648 
       
  2649 # From Alois Treindl (2008-12-17):
       
  2650 # I have researched the DST usage in Switzerland during the 1940ies.
       
  2651 #
       
  2652 # As I wrote in an earlier message, I suspected the current tzdata values
       
  2653 # to be wrong. This is now verified.
       
  2654 #
       
  2655 # I have found copies of the original ruling by the Swiss Federal
       
  2656 # government, in 'Eidgen[o]ssische Gesetzessammlung 1941 and 1942' (Swiss
       
  2657 # federal law collection)...
       
  2658 #
       
  2659 # DST began on Monday 5 May 1941, 1:00 am by shifting the clocks to 2:00 am
       
  2660 # DST ended on Monday 6 Oct 1941, 2:00 am by shifting the clocks to 1:00 am.
       
  2661 #
       
  2662 # DST began on Monday, 4 May 1942 at 01:00 am
       
  2663 # DST ended on Monday, 5 Oct 1942 at 02:00 am
       
  2664 #
       
  2665 # There was no DST in 1940, I have checked the law collection carefully.
       
  2666 # It is also indicated by the fact that the 1942 entry in the law
       
  2667 # collection points back to 1941 as a reference, but no reference to any
       
  2668 # other years are made.
       
  2669 #
       
  2670 # Newspaper articles I have read in the archives on 6 May 1941 reported
       
  2671 # about the introduction of DST (Sommerzeit in German) during the previous
       
  2672 # night as an absolute novelty, because this was the first time that such
       
  2673 # a thing had happened in Switzerland.
       
  2674 #
       
  2675 # I have also checked 1916, because one book source (Gabriel, Traite de
       
  2676 # l'heure dans le monde) claims that Switzerland had DST in 1916. This is
       
  2677 # false, no official document could be found. Probably Gabriel got misled
       
  2678 # by references to Germany, which introduced DST in 1916 for the first time.
       
  2679 #
       
  2680 # The tzdata rules for Switzerland must be changed to:
       
  2681 # Rule  Swiss   1941    1942    -       May     Mon>=1  1:00    1:00    S
       
  2682 # Rule  Swiss   1941    1942    -       Oct     Mon>=1  2:00    0       -
       
  2683 #
       
  2684 # The 1940 rules must be deleted.
       
  2685 #
       
  2686 # One further detail for Switzerland, which is probably out of scope for
       
  2687 # most users of tzdata: The [Europe/Zurich zone] ...
       
  2688 # describes all of Switzerland correctly, with the exception of
       
  2689 # the Cantone Geneve (Geneva, Genf). Between 1848 and 1894 Geneve did not
       
  2690 # follow Bern Mean Time but kept its own local mean time.
       
  2691 # To represent this, an extra zone would be needed.
       
  2692 #
       
  2693 # From Alois Treindl (2013-09-11):
       
  2694 # The Federal regulations say
       
  2695 # http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20071096/index.html
       
  2696 # ... the meridian for Bern mean time ... is 7 degrees 26'22.50".
       
  2697 # Expressed in time, it is 0h29m45.5s.
       
  2698 
       
  2699 # From Pierre-Yves Berger (2013-09-11):
       
  2700 # the "Circulaire du conseil federal" (December 11 1893)
       
  2701 # <http://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/viewOrigDoc.do?id=10071353> ...
       
  2702 # clearly states that the [1894-06-01] change should be done at midnight
       
  2703 # but if no one is present after 11 at night, could be postponed until one
       
  2704 # hour before the beginning of service.
       
  2705 
       
  2706 # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-11):
       
  2707 # Round BMT to the nearest even second, 0:29:46.
       
  2708 #
       
  2709 # We can find no reliable source for Shanks's assertion that all of Switzerland
       
  2710 # except Geneva switched to Bern Mean Time at 00:00 on 1848-09-12.  This book:
       
  2711 #
       
  2712 #	Jakob Messerli. Gleichmassig, punktlich, schnell: Zeiteinteilung und
       
  2713 #	Zeitgebrauch in der Schweiz im 19. Jahrhundert. Chronos, Zurich 1995,
       
  2714 #	ISBN 3-905311-68-2, OCLC 717570797.
       
  2715 #
       
  2716 # suggests that the transition was more gradual, and that the Swiss did not
       
  2717 # agree about civil time during the transition.  The timekeeping it gives the
       
  2718 # most detail for is postal and telegraph time: here, federal legislation (the
       
  2719 # "Bundesgesetz uber die Erstellung von elektrischen Telegraphen") passed on
       
  2720 # 1851-11-23, and an official implementation notice was published 1853-07-16
       
  2721 # (Bundesblatt 1853, Bd. II, S. 859).  On p 72 Messerli writes that in
       
  2722 # practice since July 1853 Bernese time was used in "all postal and telegraph
       
  2723 # offices in Switzerland from Geneva to St. Gallen and Basel to Chiasso"
       
  2724 # (Google translation).  For now, model this transition as occurring on
       
  2725 # 1853-07-16, though it probably occurred at some other date in Zurich, and
       
  2726 # legal civil time probably changed at still some other transition date.
       
  2727 
       
  2728 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2729 Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	May	Mon>=1	1:00	1:00	S
       
  2730 Rule	Swiss	1941	1942	-	Oct	Mon>=1	2:00	0	-
       
  2731 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2732 Zone	Europe/Zurich	0:34:08 -	LMT	1853 Jul 16 # See above comment.
       
  2733 			0:29:46	-	BMT	1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time
       
  2734 			1:00	Swiss	CE%sT	1981
       
  2735 			1:00	EU	CE%sT
       
  2736 
       
  2737 # Turkey
       
  2738 
       
  2739 # From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03):
       
  2740 # The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now.
       
  2741 # ... The latest rules are available at -
       
  2742 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107
       
  2743 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03):
       
  2744 # I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that
       
  2745 # DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time.  I am not sure
       
  2746 # what happened before that.  One example for each year from 1996 to 2001:
       
  2747 # http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm
       
  2748 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT
       
  2749 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM
       
  2750 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016
       
  2751 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021
       
  2752 # http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027
       
  2753 # From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03):
       
  2754 # Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990.
       
  2755 
       
  2756 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09):
       
  2757 # Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC
       
  2758 # start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07):
       
  2759 # http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp
       
  2760 # The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...:
       
  2761 # http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm
       
  2762 # I was able to locate the following seemingly official document
       
  2763 # (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006:
       
  2764 # http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm
       
  2765 
       
  2766 # From G&ouml;kdeniz Karada&#x011f; (2011-03-10):
       
  2767 #
       
  2768 # According to the articles linked below, Turkey will change into summer
       
  2769 # time zone (GMT+3) on March 28, 2011 at 3:00 a.m. instead of March 27.
       
  2770 # This change is due to a nationwide exam on 27th.
       
  2771 #
       
  2772 # <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=70872">
       
  2773 # http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=70872
       
  2774 # </a>
       
  2775 # Turkish:
       
  2776 # <a href="http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/17230464.asp?gid=373">
       
  2777 # http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/ekonomi/17230464.asp?gid=373
       
  2778 # </a>
       
  2779 
       
  2780 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
       
  2781 Rule	Turkey	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2782 Rule	Turkey	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2783 Rule	Turkey	1920	only	-	Mar	28	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2784 Rule	Turkey	1920	only	-	Oct	25	0:00	0	-
       
  2785 Rule	Turkey	1921	only	-	Apr	 3	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2786 Rule	Turkey	1921	only	-	Oct	 3	0:00	0	-
       
  2787 Rule	Turkey	1922	only	-	Mar	26	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2788 Rule	Turkey	1922	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2789 # Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925;
       
  2790 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2791 Rule	Turkey	1924	only	-	May	13	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2792 Rule	Turkey	1924	1925	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2793 Rule	Turkey	1925	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2794 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Jun	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2795 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Oct	 5	0:00	0	-
       
  2796 Rule	Turkey	1940	only	-	Dec	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2797 Rule	Turkey	1941	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	-
       
  2798 Rule	Turkey	1942	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2799 # Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1;
       
  2800 # go with Shanks & Pottenger.
       
  2801 Rule	Turkey	1942	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2802 Rule	Turkey	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2803 Rule	Turkey	1945	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2804 Rule	Turkey	1946	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2805 Rule	Turkey	1946	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2806 Rule	Turkey	1947	1948	-	Apr	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2807 Rule	Turkey	1947	1950	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0	-
       
  2808 Rule	Turkey	1949	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2809 Rule	Turkey	1950	only	-	Apr	19	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2810 Rule	Turkey	1951	only	-	Apr	22	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2811 Rule	Turkey	1951	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2812 Rule	Turkey	1962	only	-	Jul	15	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2813 Rule	Turkey	1962	only	-	Oct	 8	0:00	0	-
       
  2814 Rule	Turkey	1964	only	-	May	15	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2815 Rule	Turkey	1964	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
       
  2816 Rule	Turkey	1970	1972	-	May	Sun>=2	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2817 Rule	Turkey	1970	1972	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0	-
       
  2818 Rule	Turkey	1973	only	-	Jun	 3	1:00	1:00	S
       
  2819 Rule	Turkey	1973	only	-	Nov	 4	3:00	0	-
       
  2820 Rule	Turkey	1974	only	-	Mar	31	2:00	1:00	S
       
  2821 Rule	Turkey	1974	only	-	Nov	 3	5:00	0	-
       
  2822 Rule	Turkey	1975	only	-	Mar	30	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2823 Rule	Turkey	1975	1976	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	-
       
  2824 Rule	Turkey	1976	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2825 Rule	Turkey	1977	1978	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2826 Rule	Turkey	1977	only	-	Oct	16	0:00	0	-
       
  2827 Rule	Turkey	1979	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:00	1:00	S
       
  2828 Rule	Turkey	1979	1982	-	Oct	Mon>=11	0:00	0	-
       
  2829 Rule	Turkey	1981	1982	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	1:00	S
       
  2830 Rule	Turkey	1983	only	-	Jul	31	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2831 Rule	Turkey	1983	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	-
       
  2832 Rule	Turkey	1985	only	-	Apr	20	0:00	1:00	S
       
  2833 Rule	Turkey	1985	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	-
       
  2834 Rule	Turkey	1986	1990	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	S
       
  2835 Rule	Turkey	1986	1990	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
       
  2836 Rule	Turkey	1991	2006	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	S
       
  2837 Rule	Turkey	1991	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  2838 Rule	Turkey	1996	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	-
       
  2839 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2840 Zone	Europe/Istanbul	1:55:52 -	LMT	1880
       
  2841 			1:56:56	-	IMT	1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time?
       
  2842 			2:00	Turkey	EE%sT	1978 Oct 15
       
  2843 			3:00	Turkey	TR%sT	1985 Apr 20 # Turkey Time
       
  2844 			2:00	Turkey	EE%sT	2007
       
  2845 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2011 Mar 27 1:00u
       
  2846 			2:00	-	EET	2011 Mar 28 1:00u
       
  2847 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2848 Link	Europe/Istanbul	Asia/Istanbul	# Istanbul is in both continents.
       
  2849 
       
  2850 # Ukraine
       
  2851 #
       
  2852 # From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,
       
  2853 # via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
       
  2854 # BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government
       
  2855 # regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
       
  2856 # "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday
       
  2857 # of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of
       
  2858 # October the time at 4am is changing to 3am"
       
  2859 
       
  2860 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-20):
       
  2861 # On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to
       
  2862 # abolish the transfer clock to winter time.
       
  2863 #
       
  2864 # Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
       
  2865 # approval from 266 deputies.
       
  2866 #
       
  2867 # Ukraine abolishes transter back to the winter time (in Russian)
       
  2868 # <a href="http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/">
       
  2869 # http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/
       
  2870 # </a>
       
  2871 #
       
  2872 # The Ukrainians will no longer change the clock (in Russian)
       
  2873 # <a href="http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14290482.html">
       
  2874 # http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14290482.html
       
  2875 # </a>
       
  2876 #
       
  2877 # Deputies cancelled the winter time (in Russian)
       
  2878 # <a href="http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/">
       
  2879 # http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/
       
  2880 # </a>
       
  2881 #
       
  2882 # From Philip Pizzey (2011-10-18):
       
  2883 # Today my Ukrainian colleagues have informed me that the
       
  2884 # Ukrainian parliament have decided that they will go to winter
       
  2885 # time this year after all.
       
  2886 #
       
  2887 # From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18):
       
  2888 # As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukrainian time zone
       
  2889 # (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar
       
  2890 # to Russia) was reverted today:
       
  2891 #
       
  2892 # <a href="http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995">
       
  2893 # http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995
       
  2894 # </a>
       
  2895 #
       
  2896 # Also reported by Alexander Bokovoy (2011-10-18) who also noted:
       
  2897 # The law documents themselves are at
       
  2898 #
       
  2899 # <a href="http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484">
       
  2900 # http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484
       
  2901 # </a>
       
  2902 
       
  2903 
       
  2904 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
       
  2905 # Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev.
       
  2906 # "Kyiv" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2907 # "Kiev" is more common in English.
       
  2908 Zone Europe/Kiev	2:02:04 -	LMT	1880
       
  2909 			2:02:04	-	KMT	1924 May  2 # Kiev Mean Time
       
  2910 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2911 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Sep 20
       
  2912 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1943 Nov  6
       
  2913 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2914 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2915 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2916 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2917 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2918 # Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991.
       
  2919 # "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2920 # "Uzhgorod" is more common in English.
       
  2921 Zone Europe/Uzhgorod	1:29:12 -	LMT	1890 Oct
       
  2922 			1:00	-	CET	1940
       
  2923 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Oct
       
  2924 			1:00	1:00	CEST	1944 Oct 26
       
  2925 			1:00	-	CET	1945 Jun 29
       
  2926 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2927 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2928 			1:00	-	CET	1991 Mar 31 3:00
       
  2929 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2930 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2931 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2932 # Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991.
       
  2933 # "Zaporizhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but
       
  2934 # "Zaporozh'ye" is more common in English.  Use the common English
       
  2935 # spelling, except omit the apostrophe as it is not allowed in
       
  2936 # portable Posix file names.
       
  2937 Zone Europe/Zaporozhye	2:20:40 -	LMT	1880
       
  2938 			2:20	-	CUT	1924 May  2 # Central Ukraine T
       
  2939 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2940 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Aug 25
       
  2941 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1943 Oct 25
       
  2942 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31 2:00
       
  2943 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1995
       
  2944 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2945 # Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997.
       
  2946 Zone Europe/Simferopol	2:16:24 -	LMT	1880
       
  2947 			2:16	-	SMT	1924 May  2 # Simferopol Mean T
       
  2948 			2:00	-	EET	1930 Jun 21
       
  2949 			3:00	-	MSK	1941 Nov
       
  2950 			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Apr 13
       
  2951 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1990
       
  2952 			3:00	-	MSK	1990 Jul  1 2:00
       
  2953 			2:00	-	EET	1992
       
  2954 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
       
  2955 # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched
       
  2956 # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections.
       
  2957 # Shanks (1999) says "date of change uncertain", but implies that it happened
       
  2958 # sometime between the 1994 DST switches.  Shanks & Pottenger simply say
       
  2959 # 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right.  For now, guess it
       
  2960 # changed in May.
       
  2961 			2:00	E-Eur	EE%sT	1994 May
       
  2962 # From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
       
  2963 			3:00	E-Eur	MSK/MSD	1996 Mar 31 3:00s
       
  2964 			3:00	1:00	MSD	1996 Oct 27 3:00s
       
  2965 # IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST.
       
  2966 # Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
       
  2967 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1997
       
  2968 			3:00	-	MSK	1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
       
  2969 			2:00	EU	EE%sT
       
  2970 
       
  2971 # Vatican City
       
  2972 # See Europe/Rome.
       
  2973 
       
  2974 ###############################################################################
       
  2975 
       
  2976 # One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from
       
  2977 # the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986.
       
  2978 # The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else.
       
  2979 #
       
  2980 # According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but
       
  2981 # uses the WE DST rules.  The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules.
       
  2982 # Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at
       
  2983 # 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST).  It also claims that Turkey
       
  2984 # switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time
       
  2985 # and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST)
       
  2986 
       
  2987 # ...
       
  2988 # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100
       
  2989 # From: Tom Hofmann
       
  2990 # ...
       
  2991 #
       
  2992 # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when
       
  2993 # most European coun[tr]ies started DST.  Before that year, only
       
  2994 # a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according
       
  2995 # to own national rules.  In 1981, however, DST started on
       
  2996 # 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following
       
  2997 # years...
       
  2998 # But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions
       
  2999 # than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST
       
  3000 # one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep
       
  3001 # lastSun' in 1981---I don't know how they handle now.
       
  3002 #
       
  3003 # Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the
       
  3004 # Soviet Union (as far as I know).
       
  3005 #
       
  3006 # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG,
       
  3007 # 4002 Basle, Switzerland
       
  3008 # ...
       
  3009 
       
  3010 # ...
       
  3011 # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100
       
  3012 # From: Dik T. Winter
       
  3013 # ...
       
  3014 #
       
  3015 # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct.
       
  3016 # After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information
       
  3017 # about DST in Europe.  I was able to find all from about 1969.
       
  3018 #
       
  3019 # ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on
       
  3020 # first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September...
       
  3021 # In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that
       
  3022 # the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March.  And from 1982
       
  3023 # the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in
       
  3024 # the Sov[i]et Union.  In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch
       
  3025 # dates...
       
  3026 #
       
  3027 # It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g.
       
  3028 # Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST...
       
  3029 # Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not
       
  3030 # all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations
       
  3031 # occurred, though not since 1982 I believe.  Another note: it is always
       
  3032 # assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the
       
  3033 # case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours
       
  3034 # in advance of normal time.
       
  3035 #
       
  3036 # ...
       
  3037 # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
       
  3038 # ...
       
  3039 
       
  3040 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
       
  3041 # ...
       
  3042 # Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates).
       
  3043 # Since 1978.  Change at midnight.
       
  3044 # ...
       
  3045 # Monaco: has same DST as France.
       
  3046 # ...