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diff --git a/libkcal/libical/tzdata/europe b/libkcal/libical/tzdata/europe new file mode 100644 index 000000000..73eed00fc --- /dev/null +++ b/libkcal/libical/tzdata/europe @@ -0,0 +1,2525 @@ +# @(#)europe 8.12 +# <pre> + +# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, +# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to +# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). +# +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport +# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), +# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries +# of the IATA's data after 1990. +# +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# +# Other sources occasionally used include: +# +# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, +# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), +# which I found in the UCLA library. +# +# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf"> +# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition +# </a> (1914-03) +# +# Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH), +# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm"> +# History of Summer Time +# </a> (1998-09-21, in Portuguese) + +# +# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; +# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. +# Corrections are welcome! +# std dst 2dst +# LMT Local Mean Time +# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic +# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland* +# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland* +# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer +# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer +# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe +# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)* +# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)* +# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* +# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe +# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow +# +# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). + +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), +# The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, +# Luxembourg, the Netherlands. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for +# entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8% +# on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous +# referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice. +# Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.) +# ... +# Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT. +# I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards. +# ... +# There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules]. +# A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact +# national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the +# different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed +# in the Directive. + + +############################################################################### + +# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) + +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): +# +# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about +# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo +# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph +# of the text said: +# +# `An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands +# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude +# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed +# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They +# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament, +# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking +# along the towpath within a few yards of it.' +# +# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's +# position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longitude should +# be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761. +# +# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] + +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# +# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. +# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, +# and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country. +# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) +# and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903). +# The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway +# in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most +# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847-09-22 the +# Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be +# adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it. +# The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian, +# and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many +# railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public +# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock +# on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands, +# one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal +# system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading +# to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13. +# The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition +# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02. +# +# In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single +# transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much +# about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time. + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-09-27): +# Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915), +# a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society +# who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907) +# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, +# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. +# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, +# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. +# Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and +# it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. +# See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18). +# A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in +# a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular +# subscription and open to the public. On the south face of the monolith, +# designed by G. W. Miller, is the the William Willett Memorial Sundial, +# which is permanently set to Summer Time. + +# From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28): +# It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of +# summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country +# between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which +# plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the +# foundations of civilization throughout the world. +# -- <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm"> +# "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly +# </a> + +# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): +# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving'' +# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this +# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the +# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''. + +# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): +# +# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's +# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. + +# Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) +# From: Jonathan Leffler +# [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. +# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in +# politics making a fortune, not computing. + +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): +# I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the +# acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published +# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and +# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T." + +# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02): +# ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the +# main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) +# agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). + +# From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03): +# On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir +# Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any +# official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't +# but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British +# Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally. +# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/bbc-19410418.png +# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png + +# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21): +# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time +# which is to be introduced in May.... +# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time" +# which could not be said to run counter to any official description. + +# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): +# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST' too, but `BDST' seems to have been common +# and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, +# so we use `BDST'. + +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length +# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating +# and extending this list, which can be found in +# <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/"> +# History of legal time in Britain +# </a> + +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): +# +# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; +# see Lord Tanlaw's speech +# <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0"> +# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976) +# </a>. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# +# For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948. +# +# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger +# are incorrect: +# * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until +# 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain. +# Actually, Wales was identical after 1880. +# * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1. +# It actually just had one transition. +# * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II. +# Actually, it conformed to Britain. +# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18. +# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. +# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). +# +# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger: +# * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT +# to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to +# conform with Great Britain. +# S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise. +# +# The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful; +# we'll ignore it for now. +# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. +# +# +# Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than +# Shanks & Pottenger. +# Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory +# (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was +# to London. For example: +# +# "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." +# -- James Joyce, Ulysses + +# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): +# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include +# various relating to legal time, for example: +# +# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html +# +# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html +# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html +# +# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html +# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html +# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html +# +# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html +# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html +# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html +# +# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is +# <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.] +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# the laws applicable in Ireland.) +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# being GMT+1.) + +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): +# Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31) +# reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time +# (CT), equivalent to French civil time. +# Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that +# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door) +# and Frethun run in CT. +# My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities, +# the French concession operators and the British civil authorities, +# and that the time depends on who you're talking to. +# If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason, +# I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST. +# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST. + +# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): +# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, +# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC. +# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate +# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of +# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is +# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST". + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Summer Time Act, 1916 +Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358 +Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274 +Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Mar 24 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297 +Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Sep 29 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458 +Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844 +Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Oct 25 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363 +Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 +Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT +# The Summer Time Act, 1922 +Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1925 1926 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The Summer Time Act, 1925 +Rule GB-Eire 1925 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1927 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1928 1929 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1930 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1931 1932 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1933 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1934 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1935 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1936 1937 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1938 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379 +Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Nov Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883 +Rule GB-Eire 1940 only - Feb Sun>=23 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476 +Rule GB-Eire 1941 only - May Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1941 1943 - Aug Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506 +Rule GB-Eire 1942 1944 - Apr Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +# S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932 +Rule GB-Eire 1944 only - Sep Sun>=16 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 +Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Apr Mon>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Jul Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208 +Rule GB-Eire 1945 1946 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The Summer Time Act, 1947 +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Mar 16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Apr 13 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Aug 10 1:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) +Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Oct 31 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) +Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Oct 30 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) +# Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) +# Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) +Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Apr Sun>=14 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00s 0 GMT +# revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925 +Rule GB-Eire 1953 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1954 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1955 1956 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1957 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +# Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71) +# Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465) +# Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81) +Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101) +# Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201) +# Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148) +Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST +# Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117) +Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The British Standard Time Act, 1968 +# (no summer time) +# The Summer Time Act, 1972 +Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089) +# Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673) +# Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223) +# Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931) +Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985) +# Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729) +# Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798) +Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982) +# See EU for rules starting in 1996. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 + 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 + 0:00 EU GMT/BST +Link Europe/London Europe/Jersey +Link Europe/London Europe/Guernsey +Link Europe/London Europe/Isle_of_Man +Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 + -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 + -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00 + 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00 + 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00 + 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00 + 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00 + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27 + 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996 + 0:00 EU GMT/IST + +############################################################################### + +# Europe + +# EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC, +# Common Market, etc. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S +Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S +Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - +# The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: +# <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html" +# Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council +# of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. +# </a> + +# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. +Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - + +# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables. +# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time. +Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - + +# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time. +Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Russia 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 MST # Moscow Summer Time +Rule Russia 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 MMT # Moscow Mean Time +Rule Russia 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time +Rule Russia 1918 only - Sep 16 1:00 1:00 MST +Rule Russia 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 MDST +Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 - +Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24): +Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in +# Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14): +Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +# +Rule Russia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - +Rule Russia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule Russia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - + +# These are for backward compatibility with older versions. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT +Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT +Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT +Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST +# for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. + +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): +# The official German names ... are +# +# Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 +# Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit (MESZ) = UTC+02:00 +# +# as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz ueber die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG), +# 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111).... +# I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution +# +# Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) +# Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit" +# Postfach 3345 +# D-38023 Braunschweig +# phone: +49 531 592-0 +# +# ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB +# department for time and frequency transmission. He explained that the +# PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as +# +# Central European Time (CET) = UTC+01:00 +# Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00 + + +# Albania +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Albania 1940 only - Jun 16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1943 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1974 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1974 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1975 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1975 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1976 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1976 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1977 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1977 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1978 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1979 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1980 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1980 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1981 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1981 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1982 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Tirane 1:19:20 - LMT 1914 + 1:00 - CET 1940 Jun 16 + 1:00 Albania CE%sT 1984 Jul + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Andorra +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901 + 0:00 - WET 1946 Sep 30 + 1:00 - CET 1985 Mar 31 2:00 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Austria + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and +# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and +# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" +# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition +# Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, +# and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 - +Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 + 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s + 1:00 - CET 1946 + 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Belarus +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 + 1:50 - MMT 1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 28 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT + +# Belgium +# +# From Paul Eggert (1997-07-02): +# Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from: +# Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique, +# Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe annee, 1991 +# (Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC), +# pp 8-9. +# LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium: +# Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references. +# The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. +# Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Belgium 1918 only - Mar 9 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1918 1919 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1922 1927 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S +# DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd +# Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier), +# to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15 +# changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT. +Rule Belgium 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1928 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1929 only - Apr 21 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1931 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1932 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1933 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1934 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1935 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1936 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1937 only - Apr 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1938 only - Mar 27 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1939 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 + 0:17:30 - BMT 1892 May 1 12:00 # Brussels MT + 0:00 - WET 1914 Nov 8 + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 1 0:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Nov 11 11:00u + 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 20 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 3 + 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Bosnia and Herzegovina +# see Serbia + +# Bulgaria +# +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: +# EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... +# EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 - +Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 + 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT? + 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 3:00 + 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 + 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00 + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Croatia +# see Serbia + +# Cyprus +# Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. + +# Czech Republic +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Czech 1945 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - +Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Czech 1947 only - Apr 20 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 + 0:57:44 - PMT 1891 Oct # Prague Mean Time + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 17 2:00s + 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law +# [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU treaty with effect from 1973: +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequenet decrees with the law +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - +Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 + 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT + 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn + 0:00 - WET 1981 + 0:00 EU WE%sT +# +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, +# and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU +# rules at least through 1984. Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthab +# used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU +# rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980. + +# From Gwillin Law (2001-06-06), citing +# <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15), +# and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen: +# +# Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC +# is according to the following time line: +# +# The military zone near Thule UTC-4 +# Standard Greenland time UTC-3 +# Scoresbysund UTC-1 +# Danmarkshavn UTC +# +# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be +# introduced. + +# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01): +# +# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at +# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have +# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have +# info from earlier correspondence.] +# +# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule +# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight +# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time.... +# +# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund +# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst. +# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the +# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th +# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in +# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the +# DPC research station at Zackenberg. +# +# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use +# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab). +# +# The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it +# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time +# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules. +# +# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and +# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators +# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of +# this area is that it sticks with Godthab time. This area might be +# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this. + +# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19): +# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place +# there at 2:00 AM. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; +# the 1995 map as like Godthab. +# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996. +# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error, +# so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year. +# For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 + -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996 + 0:00 - GMT +Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit + -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29 + -1:00 EU EG%sT +Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk + -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU WG%sT +Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base + -4:00 Thule A%sT + +# Estonia +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): +# A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards +# [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, +# a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... +# +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): +# [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, +# but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] +# ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different +# (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules +# conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia.... +# A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on +# human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to +# summer time next spring.'' + +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390"> +# The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law +# </a> +# refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between +# the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22--27, 120). +# +# I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation +# for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" +# (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). + +# From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (1999-09-09) +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time, +# a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6.... +# But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European +# Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory +# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do +# after that. + +# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): +# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation +# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all +# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. + +# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21): +# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics. +# Now we are using again EU rules. +# +# From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28): +# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 + 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul + 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May + 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1 + 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Finland +# +# From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC): +# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, +# and it's supposed to change at 4am... +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time +# since 1981. Go with Strang instead. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31 + 1:39:52 - HMT 1921 May # Helsinki Mean Time + 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Aaland Is +Link Europe/Helsinki Europe/Mariehamn + + +# France + +# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): +# +# Henri Le Corre, Regimes Horaires pour le monde entier, Editions +# Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993 +# +# Gabriel, Traite de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Tredaniel editeur, +# Paris, 1991 +# +# Francoise Gauquelin, Problemes de l'heure resolus en astrologie, +# Guy tredaniel, Paris 1987 + + +# +# Shank & Pottenger seem to use `24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +# DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st +# Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions +# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1930 only - Apr 12 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1933 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S +# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger +# write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. +# Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez, +# Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La +# Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Decartes, +# Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin, +# Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois, +# Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe). +Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer +# Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), +# who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes +# as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. +Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1943 only - Oct 4 3:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00; +# go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT. +Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman 0:09:05, +# but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21. +# Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based +# on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Paris MT +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. + 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 +# Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25 + 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 + 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Germany + +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): +# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische +# Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. +# [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] + +# From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23): +# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a +# href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/"> +# General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>. + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): +# <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf"> +# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. +# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so +# this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4. + + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - +Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M +Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + +# Gibraltar +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00s + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 + 1:00 - CET 1982 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Greece +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1975 only - Nov 26 0:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1976 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1976 only - Oct 10 2:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1977 only - Sep 26 2:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1978 only - Sep 24 4:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 + 1:34:52 - AMT 1916 Jul 28 0:01 # Athens MT + 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1941 Apr 30 + 1:00 Greece CE%sT 1944 Apr 4 + 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1981 + # Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981; + # go with EU instead, since Greece joined it on Jan 1. + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Hungary +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Hungary 1918 only - Apr 1 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1918 only - Sep 29 3:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1919 only - Apr 15 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1919 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1920 only - Apr 5 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1920 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1945 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1945 only - Nov 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1946 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1950 only - Apr 17 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1950 only - Oct 23 2:00s 0 - +Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - May 23 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1956 only - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1956 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1957 only - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1957 only - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 1:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 + 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 6 2:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 1 23:00 + 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1980 Sep 28 2:00s + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Iceland +# +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): +# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. +# +# (1993-12-05): +# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of +# Iceland Almanak. +# +# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour +# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts +# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavik mean solar time which +# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT. +# +# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks +# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the +# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always +# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars. +# +# (1993-12-10): +# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the +# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus +# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question. +# the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day +# (old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday. +# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style" +# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it +# might mean something else (???). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The Iceland Almanak, Shanks & Pottenger, and Whitman disagree on many points. +# We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks & Pottenger, namely +# that Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Iceland 1917 1918 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1918 only - Nov 16 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Nov 29 2:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1940 only - Nov 3 2:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1941 only - Mar 2 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1941 only - Nov 2 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1942 only - Mar 8 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1942 only - Oct 25 1:00s 0 - +# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Iceland 1943 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S +# 1949 Oct transition delayed by 1 week +Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 + -1:27:48 - RMT 1908 # Reykjavik Mean Time? + -1:00 Iceland IS%sT 1968 Apr 7 1:00s + 0:00 - GMT + +# Italy +# +# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): +# Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893, +# called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32). +# During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time. +# But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, +# so record only the time in Rome. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks & Pottenger, Whitman, and +# F. Pollastri +# <a href="http://toi.iriti.cnr.it/uk/ienitlt.html"> +# Day-light Saving Time in Italy (2006-02-03) +# </a> +# (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute +# publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows: +# +# year FP Shanks&P. (S) Whitman (W) Go with: +# 1916 06-03 06-03 24:00 06-03 00:00 FP & W +# 09-30 09-30 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s +# 1917 04-01 03-31 24:00 03-31 00:00 FP & S +# 09-30 09-29 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP & W +# 1918 03-09 03-09 24:00 03-09 00:00 FP & S +# 10-06 10-05 24:00 10-06 01:00 FP & W +# 1919 03-01 03-01 24:00 03-01 00:00 FP & S +# 10-04 10-04 24:00 10-04 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s +# 1920 03-20 03-20 24:00 03-20 00:00 FP & S +# 09-18 09-18 24:00 10-01 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s +# 1944 04-02 04-03 02:00 S (see C-Eur) +# 09-16 10-02 03:00 FP; guess 24:00s +# 1945 09-14 09-16 24:00 FP; guess 24:00s +# 1970 05-21 05-31 00:00 S +# 09-20 09-27 00:00 S +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Italy 1916 only - Jun 3 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1917 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1917 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1918 only - Mar 10 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1918 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1919 only - Mar 2 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1920 only - Mar 21 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1920 only - Sep 19 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1940 only - Jun 15 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1944 only - Sep 17 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1945 only - Sep 15 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1946 only - Mar 17 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1946 only - Oct 6 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1947 only - Mar 16 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1947 only - Oct 5 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1948 only - Feb 29 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1948 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1966 1968 - May Sun>=22 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1966 1969 - Sep Sun>=22 0:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1969 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1970 only - May 31 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1970 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1971 1972 - May Sun>=22 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1971 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1972 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1973 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1973 1974 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1974 only - May 26 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1975 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1975 1977 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1976 only - May 30 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1977 1979 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22 + 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov 1 0:00s # Rome Mean + 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul + 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +Link Europe/Rome Europe/Vatican +Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino + +# Latvia + +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): + +# I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy +# of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the +# correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about +# changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981.... +# +# Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ... +# according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24 +# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning +# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00) +# and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00). +# +# Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ... +# according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13 +# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning +# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of +# September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day). +# +# Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ... +# according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14 +# ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, +# Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the +# time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia +# transition to summer time is performed on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour forward. The end of +# daylight saving time is performed on the last Sunday of September at 03:00 +# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour backward. Exception is +# 1989-03-26, when we must not turn the hands of the clock.... +# +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia of +# 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of +# daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union. + +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in +# <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm"> +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of +# 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only). + +# <a href="http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html"> +# From RFE/RL Newsline (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow: +# </a> +# The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will +# institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported. +# Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their +# clocks one hour in the spring.... +# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvitis noted that Latvia had too few +# daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European +# Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving +# time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government +# urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it +# appears that they will not do so.... + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 + 1:36:24 - RMT 1918 Apr 15 2:00 #Riga Mean Time + 1:36:24 1:00 LST 1918 Sep 16 3:00 #Latvian Summer + 1:36:24 - RMT 1919 Apr 1 2:00 + 1:36:24 1:00 LST 1919 May 22 3:00 + 1:36:24 - RMT 1926 May 11 + 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 5 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jul + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 13 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s + 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 + 2:00 - EET 2001 Jan 2 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Liechtenstein +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun + 1:00 - CET 1981 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Lithuania + +# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): +# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is +# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. + +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): +# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone +# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. + +# From <a href="http://www.elta.lt/">ELTA</a> No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29), +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours) +# to be valid here starting from October 31, +# as decided by the national government on Wednesday.... +# The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a +# motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was +# already done by Estonia. + +# From the <a href="http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm"> +# Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism +# </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving. + +# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07): +# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will +# observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid +# down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its +# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of +# 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at +# http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm + + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 + 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time + 1:35:36 - KMT 1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time + 1:00 - CET 1920 Jul 12 + 2:00 - EET 1920 Oct 9 + 1:00 - CET 1940 Aug 3 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 24 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 + 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u + 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Luxembourg +# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun + 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25 + 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s + 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00 + 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Macedonia +# see Serbia + +# Malta +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Malta 1973 only - Mar 31 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1973 only - Sep 29 0:00s 0 - +Rule Malta 1974 only - Apr 21 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1974 only - Sep 16 0:00s 0 - +Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - +Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta + 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s + 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 + 1:00 Malta CE%sT 1981 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Moldova + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write +# that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. +# However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence +# on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). +# In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area +# and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. +# But [two people] separately reported via +# Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. +# The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 + 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT + 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT + 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 May 6 + 2:00 - EET 1991 + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 +# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Monaco +# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's +# more precise 0:09:21. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time + 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 + 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Montenegro +# see Serbia + +# Netherlands + +# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, +# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. + +# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): +# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 +# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including +# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time +# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the +# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was +# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. +# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and +# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). +# +# (2001-04-08): +# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to +# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common +# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. +# +# (2001-04-09): +# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the +# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe +# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was +# actually followed. +# +# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to +# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of +# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most +# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically +# adopted Amsterdam mean time. +# +# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety +# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it +# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe +# Amsterdam mean time. + +# The data before 1945 are taken from +# <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm>. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time +Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time +Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week +# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. +Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 exactly, but the .13 is omitted +# below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 + 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 + 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 16 0:00 # Dutch Time + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Norway +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks & +# Pottenger. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 + 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Svalbard & Jan Mayen + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01): +# Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and +# Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the +# time they were declared as parts of Norway. Svalbard was declared +# as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan +# Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html and +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html). The law/regulation +# for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came +# into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a +# part of this law since 1925/1930. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html ) I have not been +# able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100) +# before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabitated" since 1921 by +# Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever +# since 1921. Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since +# before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere +# between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive). + +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): +# +# Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was +# keeping Berlin time. +# +# <http://home.no.net/janmayen/history.htm> says that the meteorologists +# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in +# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite +# frequent air ttacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a +# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly +# the UTC offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that +# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules. +# +# Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an +# Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says +# <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>). The Svalbard FAQ +# <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were +# expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, +# and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) +# <http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html> +# the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named +# Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. +# +# All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970. Unless we can +# come up with more definitive info about the timekeeping during the +# war years it's probably best just do do the following for now: +Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen + +# Poland +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Poland 1918 1919 - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1919 only - Apr 15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - +# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, +# Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., +# <http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1> +# Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. +# He also gives these further references: +# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm> +# Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf> +Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 + 1:24:00 - WMT 1915 Aug 5 # Warsaw Mean Time + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00 + 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Portugal +# +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): +# Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone +# (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. +# +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. +# The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. +# +# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12): +# IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions +# at 02:00u, not 01:00u. Assume that these are typos. +# IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00. +# IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00. +# Guess that the Azores changed to EU rules in 1992 (since that's when Portugal +# harmonized with the EU), and that they stayed +0:00 that winter. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# DSH writes that despite Decree 1,469 (1915), the change to the clocks was not +# done every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules. +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1916 only - Jun 17 23:00 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1916 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Port 1917 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1917 1921 - Oct 14 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1918 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1919 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1920 only - Feb 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1921 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1924 only - Oct 14 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1931 1932 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1934 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman. +Rule Port 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1940 only - Feb 24 23:00s 1:00 S +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman. +Rule Port 1940 1941 - Oct 5 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1941 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 1945 - Mar Sat>=8 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 only - Apr 25 22:00s 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Port 1942 only - Aug 15 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 1945 - Oct Sat>=24 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1943 only - Apr 17 22:00s 2:00 M +Rule Port 1943 1945 - Aug Sat>=25 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1944 1945 - Apr Sat>=21 22:00s 2:00 M +Rule Port 1946 only - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1946 only - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman. +# Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1951 1965 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1951 1965 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1977 only - Mar 27 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1978 1979 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1979 1982 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition from LMT to WET occurred 1911-05-24; +# Willett says 1912-01-01. Go with Willett. +Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884 + -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # Lisbon Mean Time + 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 + 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00 + 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + 0:00 W-Eur WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1996 Mar 31 1:00u + 0:00 EU WE%sT +Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada + -1:54:32 - HMT 1911 May 24 # Horta Mean Time + -2:00 Port AZO%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Azores Time + -1:00 Port AZO%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + -1:00 W-Eur AZO%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s + 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Mar 28 1:00u + -1:00 EU AZO%sT +Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal + -1:07:36 - FMT 1911 May 24 # Funchal Mean Time + -1:00 Port MAD%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Madeira Time + 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + 0:00 EU WE%sT + +# Romania +# +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07): +# <a href="http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html"> +# Nine O'clock</a> (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at +# 04:00 local time in fall 1998. For lack of better info, +# assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997, +# the same year as Bulgaria. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Romania 1932 only - May 21 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1932 1939 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Romania 1933 1939 - Apr Sun>=2 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1979 only - May 27 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1979 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Romania 1980 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1980 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct + 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT + 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00s + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 + 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1994 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Russia + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. +# Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, +# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger, +# except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat +# 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. +# +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): +# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! +# I do not know why they have decided to make this change; +# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching +# so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. +# +# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): +# `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with +# UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... +# The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor +# (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. +# +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): +# According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from +# Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... +# still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. +# +# For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from +# John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07): +# News--often false--is spread by word of mouth. A rumor that it was +# time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with +# the rest of Russia for two weeks--even soldiers stationed here began +# enforcing curfew at the wrong time. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05): +# There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in +# UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade. I start with the +# SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan +# until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok +# since September 1997.... Although the Kuril Islands are +# administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have +# remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# +# Kaliningradskaya oblast'. +Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 2:00 Poland CE%sT 1946 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast', +# Belgorodskaya oblast', Bryanskaya oblast', Vladimirskaya oblast', +# Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast', +# Respublika Dagestan, Ivanovskaya oblast', Respublika Ingushetiya, +# Kabarbino-Balkarskaya Respublika, Respublika Kalmykiya, +# Kalyzhskaya oblast', Respublika Karachaevo-Cherkessiya, +# Respublika Kareliya, Respublika Komi, +# Kostromskaya oblast', Krasnodarskij kraj, Kurskaya oblast', +# Leningradskaya oblast', Lipetskaya oblast', Respublika Marij El, +# Respublika Mordoviya, Moskva, Moskovskaya oblast', +# Murmanskaya oblast', Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug, +# Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Novgorodskaya oblast', Orlovskaya oblast', +# Penzenskaya oblast', Pskovskaya oblast', Rostovskaya oblast', +# Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg, +# Respublika Severnaya Osetiya, Smolenskaya oblast', +# Stavropol'skij kraj, Tambovskaya oblast', Respublika Tatarstan, +# Tverskaya oblast', Tyl'skaya oblast', Ul'yanovskaya oblast', +# Chechenskaya Respublika, Chuvashskaya oblast', +# Yaroslavskaya oblast' +Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880 + 2:30 - MMT 1916 Jul 3 # Moscow Mean Time + 2:30:48 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 2:00 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1922 Oct + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD +# +# Astrakhanskaya oblast', Kirovskaya oblast', Saratovskaya oblast', +# Volgogradskaya oblast'. Shanks & Pottenger say Kirov is still at +0400 +# but Wikipedia (2006-05-09) says +0300. Perhaps it switched after the +# others? But we have no data. +Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 + 3:00 - TSAT 1925 Apr 6 # Tsaritsyn Time + 3:00 - STAT 1930 Jun 21 # Stalingrad Time + 4:00 - STAT 1961 Nov 11 + 4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T + 3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia VOL%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika +Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 + 3:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 - SAMT 1935 Jan 27 + 4:00 Russia KUY%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Kuybyshev + 3:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 3:00 - KUYT 1991 Oct 20 3:00 + 4:00 Russia SAM%sT # Samara Time +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Bashkortostan, Komi-Permyatskij avtonomnyj okrug, +# Kurganskaya oblast', Orenburgskaya oblast', Permskaya oblast', +# Sverdlovskaya oblast', Tyumenskaya oblast', +# Khanty-Manskijskij avtonomnyj okrug, Chelyabinskaya oblast', +# Yamalo-Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug. +Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:24 - LMT 1919 Jul 15 4:00 + 4:00 - SVET 1930 Jun 21 # Sverdlovsk Time + 5:00 Russia SVE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 Russia SVE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 5:00 Russia YEK%sT # Yekaterinburg Time +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Altaj, Altajskij kraj, Omskaya oblast'. +Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 + 5:00 - OMST 1930 Jun 21 # Omsk TIme + 6:00 Russia OMS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 5:00 Russia OMS%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 6:00 Russia OMS%sT +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-19): I'm guessing about Tomsk here; it's +# not clear when it switched from +7 to +6. +# Novosibirskaya oblast', Tomskaya oblast'. +Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 + 6:00 - NOVT 1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time + 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia NOV%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. + 6:00 Russia NOV%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Kemerovskaya oblast', Krasnoyarskij kraj, +# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, +# Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug. +Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:20 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 + 6:00 - KRAT 1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time + 7:00 Russia KRA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia KRA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia KRA%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Buryatiya, Irkutskaya oblast', +# Ust'-Ordynskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug. +Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880 + 6:57:20 - IMT 1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time + 7:00 - IRKT 1930 Jun 21 # Irkutsk Time + 8:00 Russia IRK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 7:00 Russia IRK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 8:00 Russia IRK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] +# Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast', +# [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Chitinskaya oblast'. +# The Sakha districts are: Aldanskij, Amginskij, Anabarskij, +# Bulunskij, Verkhnekolymskij, Verkhnevilyujskij, Vilyujskij, Gornyj, +# Zhiganskij, Kobyajskij, Lenskij, Megino-Kangalasskij, Mirninskij, +# Namskij, Nyurbinskij, Olenekskij, Olekminskij, Srednekolymskij, +# Suntarskij, Tattinskij, Ust'-Aldanskij, Khangalasskij, +# Churapchinskij, Eveno-Bytantajskij. +Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time + 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 9:00 Russia YAK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] +# Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj, +# [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). +# The Sakha districts are: Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij, +# Ust'-Yanskij. +Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 + 9:00 - VLAT 1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time + 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 9:00 Russia VLA%sST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 10:00 Russia VLA%sT +# +# Sakhalinskaya oblast'. +# The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. +Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 + 9:00 - CJT 1938 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 25 + 11:00 Russia SAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T. + 10:00 Russia SAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia SAK%sT 1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 10:00 Russia SAK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2003-10-18): [This region consists of] +# Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). +# Probably also: Kuril Islands. +# The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Momskij, +# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij. +Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 10:00 - MAGT 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time + 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 10:00 Russia MAG%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia MAG%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug. +# +# The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long. +Zone Asia/Kamchatka 10:34:36 - LMT 1922 Nov 10 + 11:00 - PETT 1930 Jun 21 # P-K Time + 12:00 Russia PET%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 11:00 Russia PET%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 12:00 Russia PET%sT +# +# Chukotskij avtonomnyj okrug +Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 12:00 - ANAT 1930 Jun 21 # Anadyr Time + 13:00 Russia ANA%sT 1982 Apr 1 0:00s + 12:00 Russia ANA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 11:00 Russia ANA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 12:00 Russia ANA%sT + +# Serbia +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 + 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s +# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of +# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. +# Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. + 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica # Montenegro +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia + +# Slovakia +Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava + +# Slovenia +# see Serbia + +# Spain +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1917 only - May 5 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1917 1919 - Oct 6 23:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1919 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1924 only - Oct 4 23:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1937 only - May 22 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1937 1939 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1938 only - Mar 22 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1940 only - Mar 16 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Spain 1942 only - May 2 22:00s 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Spain 1942 only - Sep 1 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 22:00s 2:00 M +Rule Spain 1943 only - Oct 3 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1944 only - Oct 10 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1945 only - Sep 30 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1946 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1949 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1949 only - Sep 30 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Apr Sat>=13 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1976 only - Mar 27 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1976 1977 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1977 1978 - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +# The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978. +Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00s + 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1946 Sep 30 + 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901 + 0:00 - WET 1918 May 6 23:00 + 0:00 1:00 WEST 1918 Oct 7 23:00 + 0:00 - WET 1924 + 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1929 + 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 + 1:00 - CET 1986 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. + -1:00 - CANT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries Time + 0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s + 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 0:00s + 0:00 EU WE%sT +# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u. +# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. + +# Sweden + +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger: +# +# The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: +# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all +# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at +# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the +# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. +# +# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18 degrees 03' 30" +# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the +# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... +# +# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk +# forfattningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning +# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at +# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English +# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west +# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated +# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time +# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. +# +# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk forfattningssamling 1916, no 124") states +# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is +# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... +# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". +# +# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish +# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are +# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available +# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type +# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click +# the Sok-button). +# +# (2001-05-13): +# +# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 +# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show +# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some +# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already +# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another +# hour before the event took place. +# +# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 + 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 01:00 + 1:00 - CET 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Switzerland +# From Howse: +# By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace +# and their performance improved enormously. Communities began to keep +# mean time in preference to apparent time -- Geneva from 1780 .... +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# From Whitman (who writes ``Midnight?''): +Rule Swiss 1940 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Swiss 1940 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - +# From Shanks & Pottenger: +Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1848 Sep 12 + 0:29:44 - BMT 1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time + 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Turkey + +# From Amar Devegowda (2007-01-03): +# The time zone rules for Istanbul, Turkey have not been changed for years now. +# ... The latest rules are available at - +# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=107 +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-01-03): +# I have been able to find press records back to 1996 which all say that +# DST started 01:00 local time and end at 02:00 local time. I am not sure +# what happened before that. One example for each year from 1996 to 2001: +# http://newspot.byegm.gov.tr/arsiv/1996/21/N4.htm +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING97/03/97X03X25.TXT +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING98/03/98X03X02.HTM +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING99/10/99X10X26.HTM#%2016 +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2000/03/00X03X06.HTM#%2021 +# http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2001/03/23x03x01.HTM#%2027 +# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-03): +# Prefer the above source to Shanks & Pottenger for time stamps after 1990. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09): +# Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC +# start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07): +# http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp +# The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...: +# http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm +# I was able to locate the following seemingly official document +# (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006: +# http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Turkey 1924 only - May 13 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1925 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Oct 5 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1941 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1942 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +# Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Turkey 1942 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1945 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1945 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1946 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1947 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1949 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1950 only - Apr 19 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1951 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1951 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1962 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1962 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1964 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1964 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1970 1972 - May Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1973 only - Jun 3 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1973 only - Nov 4 3:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1974 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1974 only - Nov 3 5:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1975 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1975 1976 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1976 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1977 only - Oct 16 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1979 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1979 1982 - Oct Mon>=11 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1986 1990 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1991 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 + 1:56:56 - IMT 1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time? + 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1978 Oct 15 + 3:00 Turkey TR%sT 1985 Apr 20 # Turkey Time + 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 2007 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. + +# Ukraine +# +# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, +# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): +# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment +# regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: +# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday +# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of +# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am" + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev. +# "Kyiv" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but +# "Kiev" is more common in English. +Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 + 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # Kiev Mean Time + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Ruthenia used CET 1990/1991. +# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but +# "Uzhgorod" is more common in English. +Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct + 1:00 - CET 1940 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1944 Oct 26 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Jun 29 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991. +# "Zaporizhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but +# "Zaporozh'ye" is more common in English. Use the common English +# spelling, except omit the apostrophe as it is not allowed in +# portable Posix file names. +Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 + 2:20 - CUT 1924 May 2 # Central Ukraine T + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. +Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 + 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched +# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. +# Shanks (1999) says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened +# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say +# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it +# changed in May. + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May +# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. + 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s + 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s +# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. +# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997 + 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +############################################################################### + +# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from +# the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986. +# The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else. +# +# According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but +# uses the WE DST rules. The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules. +# Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at +# 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST). It also claims that Turkey +# switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time +# and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST) + +# ... +# Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 +# From: Tom Hofmann +# ... +# +# ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when +# most European coun[tr]ies started DST. Before that year, only +# a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according +# to own national rules. In 1981, however, DST started on +# 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following +# years... +# But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions +# than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST +# one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep +# lastSun' in 1981---I don't know how they handle now. +# +# Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the +# Soviet Union (as far as I know). +# +# Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, +# 4002 Basle, Switzerland +# ... + +# ... +# Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 +# From: Dik T. Winter +# ... +# +# The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. +# After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information +# about DST in Europe. I was able to find all from about 1969. +# +# ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on +# first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September... +# In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that +# the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March. And from 1982 +# the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in +# the Sov[i]et Union. In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch +# dates... +# +# It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g. +# Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST... +# Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not +# all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations +# occurred, though not since 1982 I believe. Another note: it is always +# assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the +# case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours +# in advance of normal time. +# +# ... +# dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland +# ... + +# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): +# ... +# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates). +# Since 1978. Change at midnight. +# ... +# Monaco: has same DST as France. +# ... |