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1# $OpenBSD: europe,v 1.5 1997/01/14 04:36:52 millert Exp $
2# @(#)europe 7.42
3
4# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
6# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
7
8# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22):
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
12#
13# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source
14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
17# of the IATA's data after 1990.
18#
19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
21#
22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
24# I found in the UCLA library.
25#
26# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
27# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
28# Corrections are welcome!
29# std dst
30# LMT Local Mean Time
31# -4:00 AST Atlantic
32# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
33# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
34# 0:00 GMT BST Greenwich, British Summer
35# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
36# 0:00 WET WEST Western Europe
37# 1:00 CET CEST Central Europe
38# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
39# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
40#
41# See the `africa' file for time zone naming and abbreviation conventions.
42#
43# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
44# is Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
45# Oxford University Press (1980).
46
47# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04),
48# The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
49# Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
50# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
51# Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece.
52# Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal.
53# Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for
54# entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8%
55# on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous
56# referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice.
57# Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.)
58# ...
59# Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT.
60# I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards.
61# ...
62# There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules].
63# A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact
64# national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the
65# different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed
66# in the Directive.
67
68
69###############################################################################
70
71# United Kingdom
72# The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14.
73
74# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
75#
76# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
77# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
78# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
79# of the text said:
80#
81# `An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
82# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude
83# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
84# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
85# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
86# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
87# along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
88#
89# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
90# position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longitude should
91# be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
92#
93# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
94
95# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
96#
97# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
98# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
99# and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country.
100# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828);
101# it was popularized in 1840 by Capt. Basil Hall, RN (1788-1844),
102# famed explorer and former Commissioner for Longitude.
103# The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway
104# in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most
105# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847 Sep 22 the
106# Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be
107# adopted at all stations; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists most major
108# railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public
109# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the Great Clock
110# in Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands,
111# one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal
112# system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading
113# to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13.
114# The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition
115# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880 Aug 2.
116#
117# In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single
118# transition date for London, namely 1847 Sep 22. We don't know as much
119# about Dublin, so we use 1880 Aug 2, the legal transition time.
120
121# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
122# Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915),
123# a London builder who circulated a pamphlet ``Waste of Daylight'' (1907)
124# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April,
125# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September.
126# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times,
127# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests.
128# One-hour Summer Time was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916.
129
130# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
131# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving''
132# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
133# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
134# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''.
135
136# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
137#
138# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
139# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
140
141# Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed)
142# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john>
143# [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament.
144# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
145# politics making a fortune, not computing.
146
147# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03):
148#
149# Our Government...couldn't...make a decision after the 1989 consultation
150# exercise about the UK changing its timezone so it just let things drift
151# (different from deciding to keep the status quo). According to the
152# Summer Time Order 1992 (SI 1992/1729) the dates of Summer Time for 1993
153# and 1994 are:
154# Start End
155# 1993 28 March 24 October
156# 1994 27 March 23 October
157# All start and end times are at 01:00 GMT.
158#
159# There [was] an error in your tables for the start and end times prior to 1981.
160# The UK always used to change at 02:00 GMT. In 1981 it changed to 01:00 GMT
161# as a part of EC harmonisation and has remained at that time since.
162#
163# I have found the default algorithm for UK Summer Time, it is in the
164# Summer Time Act 1972. Section 1 states that in the absence of an Order
165# in Council Summer Time starts at 02:00 GMT on the morning of the day
166# after the third Saturday in March, unless that day is Easter Day, in
167# which case it is the morning of the day after the second Saturday.
168# It ends at 02:00 GMT on the morning of the day after the fourth Saturday
169# in October. (All the redundant `morning of the day ...' is in the Act.)
170# This is only of passing interest now as it will always be overridden by
171# an Order in Council (a Statutory Instrument, the SI thing mentioned above)
172# to specify the EC specified dates.
173
174# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-18):
175#
176# My contact in the Ministry of Defence Public Relations department
177# accepted the challenge of looking into this and produced the following,
178# from Hansard (the official record of the UK Parliament), Oral Answers,
179# 1 March 1945, cols 1559--60:
180#
181# `58. Major Sir Goronwy Owen asked the Secretary of State for the Home
182# Department if he is now able to state the Government's proposals
183# regarding double summer time.
184#
185# [two other similar questions omitted]
186#
187# Mr. H. Morrison: The Government, in reviewing the matter, have
188# considered, [...] the conclusion has been reached that the adoption of
189# double summer time from the beginning of April is essential to the
190# maintenance of the war effort. [...] As 1st April is Easter Sunday,
191# when very early services are held in many churches, it is proposed that
192# double summer time shall start not in the night preceding Easter
193# Sunday, but in the night of Sunday- Monday so that it will operate from
194# Monday, 2nd April.'
195
196# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14):
197# I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the
198# acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published
199# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
200# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
201
202# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03):
203#
204# > # Current rules
205# > Rule GB-Eire 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 BST
206# > Rule GB-Eire 1981 max - Oct Sun>=23 1:00s 0 GMT
207#
208# The ending rule here doesn't match the EC rules, which specify the fourth
209# Sunday in October for the UK and Eire. The `fourth Sunday' rule wasn't
210# followed in 1989, but then the sixth EC directive wasn't in force then
211# and I don't know what previous ones said. 1995 is the next year with
212# the 4th Sun on 22 Oct, but that year isn't covered by the UK Summer Time
213# Order or the sixth EC directive. Your Oct Sun>=23 rule matches history
214# and with things only announced for 2 years or so in advance who knows
215# what will happen.
216#
217# There are renewed rumours that the Government here will make another
218# attempt at resolving this issue, which is what prompted me to start
219# asking the Home Office and the EC about it again. The EC categorically
220# state they are not asking anybody to change timezone, they only want
221# common start/end dates. The UK Govt. seem to want to change our zone
222# and blame the resulting fuss on the EC. Me, I think we should scrap
223# summer time completely, noon is when the Sun is overhead, and that should
224# be the end of it.
225
226# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-22):
227#
228# I now have the text of the Summer Time Act 1916, the granddaddy of them all.
229# It is headed: `An Act to provide for the Time in Great Britain and Ireland
230# being in advance of Greenwich and Dublin mean time respectively in the
231# summer months'.
232#
233# It specifies 21 May and 1 October for 1916 (both at 02:00 GMT) and whatever
234# dates an Order in Council may specify for subsequent years.
235#
236# Section 4 states: `This act shall apply to Ireland in like manner as it
237# applies to Great Britain, with the substitution however of references
238# to Dublin mean time for references to Greenwich mean time.'
239#
240# Lorna, my learned legal friend who supplied it, also offers this quote
241# from Halsbury's Statutes on the extent of Acts:
242#
243# `An Act of the United Kingdom Parliament is to be construed prima facie
244# to apply to the whole of the United Kingdom and not to any place outside.
245# [...] The expression "United Kingdom" for this purpose includes (since
246# 1922) Great Britain (ie. England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland,
247# but it does not include the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.'
248#
249# She goes on to say the seminal event of 1922 was the establishment of
250# the Irish Free State, now called Eire.
251#
252# The Act doesn't say anything about Wales (or Scotland) so I would assert
253# that Shanks is wrong here. I would like to know why he thinks Wales
254# was different.
255#
256# It also confirms the fact that Ireland followed Dublin time back then,
257# and 25 minutes behind Greenwich, as Shanks has it, would be correct.
258
259# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-28):
260#
261# I now have before me, thanks to my learned legal friend Lorna, the text of
262# the Time (Ireland) Act 1916.
263#
264# It says that as from 2 AM Dublin Mean Time on 1 October 1916 the time
265# for general purposes in Ireland shall be the same as the rest of Great
266# Britain (ie. GMT with the Summer Time periods specified by the Summer Time
267# Act 1916).... As Ireland was behind GMT/BST at 02:00 DMT on 1 Oct GB would
268# have already put the clocks back. Using DST as Dublin Summer Time the
269# sequence would have been:
270# Dublin London
271# 02:34 DST 02:59 BST
272# 02:35 DST 02:00 GMT
273# 02:59 DST 02:24 GMT
274# 02:25 GMT 02:25 GMT
275# with the transition 03:00 DST -> 02:00 DMT -> 02:25 GMT all at once.
276#
277# In a table of repeals in the Schedule to the Act it mentions the
278# Statutes (Definition of Time) Act 1880. This is presumably the source
279# of the 1880 date in Shanks. The little bit of it that is repealed
280# also refers solely to Ireland and Dublin Mean Time.
281
282# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-29):
283#
284# My case is that, with the sole exception of Ireland in 1916 using Dublin
285# Mean Time, Summer Time has been uniform throughout the United Kingdom
286# ever since it first started in 1916.
287#
288# The United Kingdom is England, Wales and Scotland plus all of Ireland from
289# 1916 up to and including 1921, or plus Northern Ireland from 1922 to date.
290#
291# The dates used are those specified in the table in Summer Time: A Consultation
292# Document (Cm 722, 1989) that are now included in the europe file, with a
293# change to a single date, the start in 1924. I made a typo in my 1989 mail
294# and the table itself is also wrong. The correct date is 13 April.
295# The times were 02:00 GMT up to and including 1980, 01:00 GMT from 1981 on,
296# except for wartime double summer time.
297#
298# As evidence I would cite:
299#
300# - The Summer Time Act, 1916.
301#
302# This specifically states that it applies to Ireland, specifies dates of
303# 21 May and 1 October and times of 02:00, and says that in Ireland the
304# times relate to Dublin mean time. It specifies an offset of 1 hour.
305#
306# - The Time (Ireland) Act, 1916
307#
308# This abolishes Dublin mean time on 02:00 DMT 1 October 1916.
309# It repeals that section of the Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880
310# that specifies DMT. It is therefore a safe bet that DMT existed at least
311# from 1880 and was the only alternative standard time in the UK.
312#
313# - The Summer Time Act, 1922
314#
315# This specifies an offset of 1 hour and dates of the day after the third
316# Saturday in April, unless that be Easter, in which case it is the day after
317# the second Saturday, and the day after the third Saturday in September.
318# The time is 02:00 GMT. It applied in 1922 and 1923, and longer if Parliament
319# so approved.
320#
321# It specifically states that it applies to Northern Ireland, the Channel
322# Islands, and the Isle of Man.
323#
324# - The Summer Time Act, 1925
325#
326# This makes the 1922 Act permanent, with a change to the end date to the
327# day after the first Saturday in October. It says nothing about extent,
328# so that part of the 1922 Act will still apply.
329#
330# - The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939, SR&O 1939 No. 1379
331# [SR&O == Statutory Regulation and Order]
332#
333# These were made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939.
334# It changes the end date to be the day after the third Saturday in November.
335# It makes consequential changes to some vehicle lighting legislation,
336# which includes the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Act,
337# 1934, so it seems clear it applies in Northern Ireland.
338#
339# - An Order in Council amending the The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations,
340# 1939, SR&O 1940 No. 1883
341#
342# This continues summer time throughout the year after it starts in 1940.
343# It says nothing about extent and has no consequential changes.
344#
345# - An Order in Council amending the The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations,
346# 1939, SR&O 1941 No. 476
347#
348# This introduces double summer time, starting at 01:00 GMT on the day after
349# the first Saturday in May and ending at 01:00 GMT on the day after the
350# second Saturday in August, offset another hour from normal summer time,
351# which continues throughout the rest of the year. It goes on a lot about
352# consequential changes to agricultural wages legislation, and says in part
353# `... and in its application to Northern Ireland have effect as
354# if for the references to the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Acts, 1924 and
355# 1940, there were substituted references to the Agricultural Wages (Regulation)
356# Acts (Northern Ireland), 1939 and 1940, ...'. It also has a similar section
357# for Scotland. Both sections substitute the local Agricultural Wages Board
358# for the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales, showing that
359# England and Wales were indivisible.
360#
361# - An Order in Council amending the The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations,
362# 1939, SR&O 1942 No. 506
363#
364# This changes the start date of double summer time to the day after the first
365# Saturday in April. It says nothing about extent.
366#
367# - An Order in Council amending the The Defence (Summer Time) Regulations,
368# 1939, SR&O 1944 No. 932
369#
370# This changed the end date of double summer time to 17 September 1944.
371# (I don't have the text of this, just a note of what it did, the text almost
372# certainly had the `day after the nth Saturday' form.)
373#
374# (I am missing whatever regulations there were to change things in 1945
375# and the Summer Time Act, 1947.)
376#
377# - The British Standard Time Act, 1968
378#
379# This came into force on 27 October 1968 and continued summer time throughout
380# the year as an experiment until it expired on 31 October 1971.
381# There was no double summer time so we didn't have to change the clocks at all.
382# It specifically said it applied to Northern Ireland. It also said it
383# applied to Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man unless they passed
384# measures saying it didn't.
385#
386# - The Manx Time Act, 1968
387#
388# This is an Act of Tynwald (the Isle of Man Parliament) that said that
389# henceforth Manx time would be the same as the time in Great Britain.
390#
391# - The Summer Time Act, 1972
392#
393# This specified a reversion to normal summer time behaviour with a start
394# date of the day after the third Saturday in March, unless that is Easter,
395# when it is the day after the second Saturday, and an end date of the day
396# after the fourth Saturday in October. Times are at 02:00 GMT, offset is
397# 1 hour.
398#
399# It has the same wording about extent as the British Standard Time Act, 1968,
400# applying to Northern Ireland unconditionally and to Jersey, Guernsey and the
401# Isle of Man if they don't do something about it.
402#
403# (I am missing various Summer Time Orders that modified the 1972 Act to
404# harmonise with the EC since 1981. The major change is that the time changes
405# to 01:00 GMT.)
406#
407# - The Summer Time Order, 1992, SI 1992/1729 [SI == Statutory Instrument]
408#
409# This specifies dates of:
410# Start End
411# 1993 28 March 24 October
412# 1994 27 March 23 October
413# All start and end times are at 01:00 GMT....
414#
415# - Some text on the extent of Acts, from Halsbury's Statutes
416#
417# `An Act of the United Kingdom Parliament is to be construed prima facie
418# to apply to the whole of the United Kingdom and not to any place outside.
419# [...] The expression "United Kingdom" for this purpose includes (since
420# 1922) Great Britain (ie. England, Wales and Scotland) and Northern Ireland,
421# but it does not include the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man.'
422#
423# So, many of these measures specifically include Northern Ireland,
424# the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. None of them exclude any
425# part of the UK. The default interpretation of Acts is that they apply
426# throughout the UK.
427#
428# With that, I rest my case Milud :-)
429#
430# Thanks are due to my learned legal friend Lorna Montgomerie, who dug out
431# the dusty old statutes, and to Melanie Allison of the Ministry of Defence,
432# who provided the wartime regulations and a snippet of Hansard explaining
433# why double summer time started on a Monday in 1945 (it was Easter).
434
435# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-05-29):
436# I have now got a copy of the British Standard Time Act 1968.
437# It says (S4(2)) that it expires at 02:00 GMT on 31 October 1971 unless
438# an Order in Council was passed in Parliament to make the Act permanent.
439# No Order was passed, so 02:00 1971-10-31 it is...
440#
441# Interestingly, it says baldly `This Act shall come into force on
442# 27 October 1968', without giving a time. As S1 of the Act merely
443# stated that `The time for general purposes in the United Kingdom
444# (to be known as British standard time) shall be one hour in
445# advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year; ...' you could
446# possibly argue that the start time of BStandardT was 00:00 1968-10-27,
447# especially as the Act repealed the Summer Time Acts 1916--1947 in toto,
448# thereby destroying the authority of the Summer Time Order specifying
449# summer time in 1968....
450
451# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-11-18)
452#
453# Here is a revised version of my tabrules file for the perl script I sent
454# before. I have personally verified the various Orders back to 1953 and
455# all the Acts.
456#
457# There are no changes to the dates we already have.
458#
459# My doubt about an early start in 1967 on 18 Feb was misplaced, the Order
460# does say 18 Feb. This is an interesting case as the first Order gave a
461# different date of 7 April 1967 for the Isle of Man but this was changed
462# before it came into effect by another Order for the Isle of Man alone.
463#
464# I don't think I will be able to find any more of the earlier Orders.
465# The annual volumes for 1949--52 do not contain the various Summer Time
466# Orders. They therefore don't appear in the index. They rate a mention in
467# italics in the numerical list at the start but that is all.
468# I think what happens is that the annual volume is produced well after the
469# end of the year in question, by which time the Summer Time Order is spent.
470# They assume that nobody would ever be stupid enough to want to see it
471# again so they leave it out.
472#
473# It might be a good idea to put this table, or the output of tabscript
474# showing all the moves because of Easter, in the europe file comments in
475# place of my old transcription of the Green Paper table [the UK Government
476# paper "Summer Time: A Consultation Document" (HMSO Cm722 June 1989)].
477#
478# Peter Ilieve peter@memex.co.uk
479#
480#
481# ## control file for tabscript, a program to generate UK summer time dates
482# ## matching the table in Cm 722, the 1989 Green Paper.
483# ## Lines like this are comments.
484# ## Lines with a single # at the start are copied into the output
485# ## Control lines are of the form
486# ## <years> <start date> <end date> <flags> <double start> <double end>
487# ## <years> is either a single year or a hyphen separated range, with --
488# ## also accepted as I use this in TeX a lot.
489# ## <start date> and <end date> are a digit followed bu a month name.
490# ## It is either an nth Saturday or an explicit date, depending on <flags>.
491# ## 0 and/or none are used when there is no date, as during 1968--71.
492# ## <flags> can contain `fixed' to indicate explicit dates and `double'
493# ## to indicate double summer time dates are present.
494# ## At present double requires fixed as well.
495# ## <double start> and <double end> are like the start and end dates, with
496# ## the exception of the 0 and/or none feature.
497#
498# ## Blank lines are also ignored.
499#
500# ## Places where I am uncertain, not having personally verified the dates
501# ## against the Act or Order, are marked ???
502# ## These dates are taken from the Cm 722 table.
503#
504# # Summer Time Act, 1916
505# 1916 21 May 1 October fixed
506#
507# ## I haven't yet looked for Orders for 1916--22 and I doubt I will find them.
508# # unknown Order or Orders ???
509# 1917 8 apr 17 sep fixed
510# 1918 24 mar 30 sep fixed
511# 1919 30 mar 29 sep fixed
512# # end date extended in 1920 from 27 Sep because of coal strike (from Cm 722)
513# 1920 28 mar 25 oct fixed
514# 1921 3 apr 3 oct fixed
515#
516# # Summer Time Act, 1922
517# # came into force 22 July 1922, too late for 1922, so missing Order ???
518# 1922 26 mar 8 oct fixed
519# 1923-1924 3 April 3 September
520#
521# # Summer Time Act, 1925
522# 1925--1938 3 April 1 October
523#
524# # Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939
525# 1939 3 April 3 November
526# # 1940 amendment (SR&O 1940 Nos. 172 & 1883)
527# 1940 4 feb 0 none
528# # 1941 amendment (SR&O 1941 No. 476)
529# 1941 0 none 0 none fixed,double 4 may 10 aug
530# # 1942 amendment (SR&O 1942 No. 506)
531# 1942 0 none 0 none fixed,double 5 apr 9 aug
532# 1943 0 none 0 none fixed,double 4 apr 15 aug
533# # 1944 amendment (SR&O 1944 No. 932)
534# 1944 0 none 0 none fixed,double 2 apr 17 sep
535# # 1945 dates from Hansard, Oral Answers, 1 March 1945
536# 1945 0 none 7 oct fixed,double 2 apr 15 jul
537#
538# # reversion to Summer Time Act, 1925
539# 1946 3 April 1 October
540#
541# # Summer Time Act, 1947
542# # Fixed dates for 1947 only, gives power to have double summer time
543# 1947 16 mar 2 nov fixed,double 13 apr 10 aug
544# ## I can't find any trace of the Order for 1948.
545# # Unknown Order ???
546# 1948 14 mar 31 oct fixed
547# ## I know the numbers for the 1949--52 ones but the text is missing from the
548# ## annual volumes. I also don't know if the 49 Order was for 49 or 50, etc.
549# # Summer Time Order, 1949 (SI1949/373) ???
550# 1949 3 apr 30 oct fixed
551# # Summer Time Order, 1950 (SI1950/518) ???
552# 1950 16 apr 22 oct fixed
553# # Summer Time Order, 1951 (SI1951/430) ???
554# 1951 15 apr 21 oct fixed
555# # Summer Time Order, 1952 (SI1952/451) ???
556# 1952 20 apr 26 oct fixed
557#
558# # reversion to Summer Time Act, 1925
559# 1953--1960 3 April 1 October
560#
561# ## All Orders from here on specify fixed dates, not day after nth Sunday
562# ## Start pattern looks like Mar lastSun up to 1963, Mar Sun>=19 up to 1967.
563# ## End pattern looks like Oct Sun>=23 up to 1967.
564# # Summer Time Order, 1961 (SI1961/71)
565# 1961 26 March 29 October fixed
566# # Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (SI1961/2465)
567# 1962 25 Mar 28 Oct fixed
568# # Summer Time Order, 1963 (SI1963/81)
569# 1963 31 March 27 October fixed
570# # Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (SI1963/2101)
571# 1964 22 March 25 October fixed
572# # Summer Time Order, 1964 (SI1964/1201)
573# 1965 21 Mar 24 Oct fixed
574# 1966 20 Mar 23 Oct fixed
575# 1967 19 Mar 29 Oct fixed
576# # Summer Time Order, 1967 (SI1967/1148)
577# # Specifies different start date of 7 April for Isle of Man
578# # Summer Time Order, 1968 (SI1968/117)
579# # Changes Isle of Man start date to 18 Feb to match rest of UK
580# # British Standard Time Act, 1968
581# 1968 18 feb 0 none fixed
582# 1969--1970 0 none 0 none
583# 1971 0 none 31 oct fixed
584#
585# # Summer Time Act, 1972
586# 1972-1980 3 March 4 October
587#
588# # The pattern here looks like Last Sun in Mar, day after 4th Sat in Oct
589# # First EC Directive ???
590# # Summer Time Order, 1980 (SI1980/1089)
591# 1981 29 Mar 25 Oct fixed
592# 1982 28 Mar 24 Oct fixed
593# # Second EC Directive ???
594# # Summer Time Order, 1982 (SI1982/1673)
595# 1983 27 Mar 23 Oct fixed
596# 1984 25 Mar 28 Oct fixed
597# 1985 31 Mar 27 Oct fixed
598# # Third EC Directive ???
599# # Summer Time Order, 1986 (SI1986/223)
600# 1986 30 Mar 26 Oct fixed
601# 1987 29 Mar 25 Oct fixed
602# 1988 27 Mar 23 Oct fixed
603# # Fourth EC Directive ???
604# # Summer Time Order, 1988 (SI1988/931)
605# 1989 26 Mar 29 Oct fixed
606# # Fifth EC Directive ???
607# # Summer Time Order, 1989 (SI1989/985)
608# 1990 25 Mar 28 Oct fixed
609# 1991 31 Mar 27 Oct fixed
610# 1992 29 Mar 25 Oct fixed
611# # Sixth EC Directive
612# # Summer Time Order, 1992 (SI1992/1729)
613# 1993 28 Mar 24 Oct fixed
614# 1994 27 Mar 23 Oct fixed
615
616# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-08-18):
617# I now have the text of the 7th EC directive on summer time arrangements
618# (94/21/EC), which was approved on 30 May....
619# The major changes from existing practice are that 1995 will be the last year
620# that the UK and Eire finish on a different date from everyone else,
621# and the common end date from 1996 onwards will be the last Sunday in October.
622# Year Start End End (UK & Eire, 1995 only)
623# (rule) (last Sun) (last Sun) (4th Sun)
624# 1995 26 March 24 September 22 October
625# 1996 31 March 27 October
626# 1997 30 March 26 October
627#
628# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-01):
629# The final piece of the legislative jigsaw for summer time in the UK for
630# 1995-97 is now in place. The Summer Time Order 1994 (SI 1994/2798)
631# came into force on 16 November. It restates the dates from the EC
632# seventh Summer Time Directive....
633#
634# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-04-20):
635# Proposals for the eighth directive were supposed to have been produced
636# by the Commission by 1 Jan 96. They have not yet appeared (I asked just
637# before Easter).
638
639# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-03-28):
640# The [GB-Eire] end date of 22 October [1995] conflicts with your current rule
641# of Oct Sun>=23, and the historical UK formula of Sun after 4th Sat.
642# The last time 4th Sun and Sun after 4th Sat differed was in 1989,
643# when 29 October was used. That year was covered by a UK Summer Time Order
644# for only a single year and it looks as though there was a matching 4th EC
645# directive for just this year. I don't have the text of the 5th EC
646# directive (for 1990--92) but my guess would be it said 4th Sun.
647# To maintain strict historical accuracy you could start a new UK ending rule
648# of Oct Sun>=22 in 1990.
649
650# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-06-12):
651#
652# As Ilieve remarks, the date `20 April 1924' in the table of ``Summer Time: A
653# Consultation Document'' (Cm 722, 1989) table is a transcription error;
654# 20 April was an Easter Sunday. Shanks has 13 April, the correct date.
655# Also, the table is not quite right for 1925 through 1938; the correct rules
656# (which Shanks uses) are given in the Summer Time Acts of 1922 and 1925.
657# Shanks and the UK Government paper disagree about the Apr 1956 transition;
658# since we have no other data, and since Shanks was correct in the other
659# points of disagreement about London, we'll believe Shanks for now.
660# Also, for lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948.
661#
662# Given Peter Ilieve's comments, the following claims by Shanks are incorrect:
663# * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight savings time until
664# 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain.
665# Actually, Wales was identical after 1880.
666# * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1.
667# It actually just had one transition.
668# * Northern Ireland used single daylight savings time throughout WW II.
669# Actually, it conformed to Britain.
670# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18.
671# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time.
672# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change).
673#
674# The following claims by Shanks are possible though doubtful;
675# we'll ignore them for now.
676# * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT
677# to daylight savings time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to
678# conform with Great Britain.
679# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00.
680#
681#
682# Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than Shanks.
683
684# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
685# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
686# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
687# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
688# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
689# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
690# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST".
691
692# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
693# 1916 to 1925--irregular
694Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST
695Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 GMT
696Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 BST
697Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 GMT
698Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Mar 24 2:00s 1:00 BST
699Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 GMT
700Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 BST
701Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Sep 29 2:00s 0 GMT
702Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 BST
703Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Oct 25 2:00s 0 GMT
704Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST
705Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT
706Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST
707Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT
708Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
709Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT
710Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 BST
711# 1925 to 1939 start--regular, except for avoiding Easter
712Rule GB-Eire 1925 1926 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
713Rule GB-Eire 1925 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT
714Rule GB-Eire 1927 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 BST
715Rule GB-Eire 1928 1929 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
716Rule GB-Eire 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 BST
717Rule GB-Eire 1931 1932 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
718Rule GB-Eire 1933 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 BST
719Rule GB-Eire 1934 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
720Rule GB-Eire 1935 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 BST
721Rule GB-Eire 1936 1937 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
722Rule GB-Eire 1938 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 BST
723Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
724# 1939 end to 1947--irregular, and with double summer time
725Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 GMT
726Rule GB-Eire 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00s 1:00 BST
727Rule GB-Eire 1941 only - May Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
728Rule GB-Eire 1941 1943 - Aug Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST
729Rule GB-Eire 1942 1944 - Apr Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
730Rule GB-Eire 1944 only - Sep Sun>=16 1:00s 1:00 BST
731# Double daylight starts on a Monday in 1945--see above.
732Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Apr 2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
733Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Jul 15 1:00s 1:00 BST
734Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 GMT
735Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 BST
736Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Oct 6 2:00s 0 GMT
737Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Mar 16 2:00s 1:00 BST
738Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Apr 13 1:00s 2:00 BDST
739Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Aug 10 1:00s 1:00 BST
740Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 GMT
741# So much for double saving time. 1948 and 1949, irregular.
742Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00s 1:00 BST
743Rule GB-Eire 1948 1949 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 GMT
744Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST
745# 1950 through start of 1953, regular.
746Rule GB-Eire 1950 1953 - Apr Sun>=14 2:00s 1:00 BST
747Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00s 0 GMT
748# 1954 to 1980, starting rules
749Rule GB-Eire 1954 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 BST
750Rule GB-Eire 1955 1956 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
751Rule GB-Eire 1957 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 BST
752Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
753Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 BST
754Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST
755Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST
756Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST
757Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
758# 1953 to 1980, ending rules
759Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 GMT
760Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT
761Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT
762# 1981 on
763Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST
764Rule GB-Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u 0 GMT
765Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT
766# See EU for rules starting in 1996.
767
768# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
769Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Sep 22
770 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27
771 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
772 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996
773 0:00 EU GMT/BST
774Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
775 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT
776 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 3:00 # Irish Summer Time
777 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27
778 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
779 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996
780 0:00 EU GMT/BST
781Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:21 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
782 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT
783 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 3:00
784 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence
785 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00
786 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00
787 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00
788 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00
789 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00
790 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27
791 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
792 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996
793 0:00 EU GMT/IST
794
795###############################################################################
796
797# Continental Europe
798
799# EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC,
800# Common Market, etc.
801
802# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
803Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S
804Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
805Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 -
806Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
807Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
808Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
809
810# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time.
811Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S
812Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
813Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 -
814Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
815Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
816Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 -
817
818# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables.
819# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time.
820Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S
821Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
822Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S
823Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 -
824Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S
825# Whitman says 1941 DST was only from Feb 25 to Oct 5; go with Shanks.
826Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 -
827Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S
828Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 -
829Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S
830# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks.
831Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 -
832Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
833Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
834Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 -
835Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
836Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
837Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
838
839# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time.
840Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
841Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
842Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
843Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
844Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
845Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
846
847# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
848Rule Russia 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 MST # Moscow Summer Time
849Rule Russia 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 MMT # Moscow Mean Time
850Rule Russia 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time
851Rule Russia 1918 only - Sep 17 0:00 1:00 MST
852Rule Russia 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 MDST
853Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S
854Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 -
855Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S
856# Shanks gives 1921 Mar 21 for the following transition.
857# From Andrey A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su> (1993-11-12):
858# My sources says, that it is Mar 20, not 21.
859Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 DS
860Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
861Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
862Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
863Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
864Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
865Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
866Rule Russia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
867Rule Russia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
868Rule Russia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
869Rule Russia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
870Rule Russia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
871
872# These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
873
874# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
875Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT
876Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT
877Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT
878Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT
879
880# Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST
881# for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage.
882
883# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12):
884# The official German names ... are
885#
886# Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00
887# Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit (MESZ) = UTC+02:00
888#
889# as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz ueber die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG),
890# 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111)....
891# I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution
892#
893# Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
894# Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit"
895# Postfach 3345
896# D-38023 Braunschweig
897# phone: +49 531 592-0
898#
899# ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB
900# department for time and frequency transmission. He explained that the
901# PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as
902#
903# Central European Time (CET) = UTC+01:00
904# Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00
905
906
907# Albania
908# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
909Rule Albania 1940 only - Jun 16 0:00 1:00 S
910Rule Albania 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
911Rule Albania 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S
912Rule Albania 1943 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 -
913Rule Albania 1974 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S
914Rule Albania 1974 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
915Rule Albania 1975 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
916Rule Albania 1975 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
917Rule Albania 1976 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
918Rule Albania 1976 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
919Rule Albania 1977 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
920Rule Albania 1977 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
921Rule Albania 1978 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S
922Rule Albania 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
923Rule Albania 1979 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 S
924Rule Albania 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
925Rule Albania 1980 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S
926Rule Albania 1980 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
927Rule Albania 1981 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 S
928Rule Albania 1981 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
929Rule Albania 1982 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
930Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
931Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S
932Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
933Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
934Rule Albania 1984 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
935# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
936Zone Europe/Tirane 1:19:20 - LMT 1914
937 1:00 - CET 1940 Jun 16
938 1:00 Albania CE%sT 1985 Mar 31 1:00
939 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1991
940 1:00 EU CE%sT
941
942# Andorra
943# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
944Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901
945 0:00 - WET 1946 Sep 30
946 1:00 - CET 1985 Mar 31 2:00
947 1:00 EU CE%sT
948
949# Austria
950# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
951Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S
952Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 -
953Rule Austria 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
954Rule Austria 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
955Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
956Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
957Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
958Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
959# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
960Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr
961 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00
962 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00
963 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
964 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981
965 1:00 EU CE%sT
966
967# Belarus
968# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
969Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880
970 2:30:20 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 2:00
971 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1922 Oct
972 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
973 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
974 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
975 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00
976 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00
977 2:00 Russia EE%sT
978
979# Belgium
980# Whitman and Shanks disagree; go with Shanks, usually.
981# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
982# From Whitman:
983Rule Belgium 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
984Rule Belgium 1919 only - Oct 4 23:00s 0 -
985# Shanks gives 1920 Feb 14 23:00s; go with Whitman.
986Rule Belgium 1920 1921 - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
987Rule Belgium 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
988Rule Belgium 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 -
989Rule Belgium 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
990# Whitman gives 1927 Oct 1 2:00s and 1928 Oct 7 2:00s; go with Shanks.
991Rule Belgium 1922 1928 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
992Rule Belgium 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00s 1:00 S
993Rule Belgium 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S
994Rule Belgium 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S
995Rule Belgium 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
996Rule Belgium 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
997Rule Belgium 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
998Rule Belgium 1929 only - Apr 21 2:00s 1:00 S
999Rule Belgium 1929 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 -
1000Rule Belgium 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 S
1001Rule Belgium 1931 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S
1002Rule Belgium 1932 only - Apr 17 2:00s 1:00 S
1003Rule Belgium 1933 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 S
1004Rule Belgium 1934 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S
1005Rule Belgium 1935 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S
1006Rule Belgium 1936 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S
1007# Whitman says 1937 Apr 18 2:00s; go with Shanks.
1008Rule Belgium 1937 only - Apr 4 2:00s 1:00 S
1009# Whitman says 1938 Apr 10 2:00s; go with Shanks.
1010Rule Belgium 1938 only - Mar 27 2:00s 1:00 S
1011Rule Belgium 1939 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 S
1012Rule Belgium 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 -
1013Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
1014Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 -
1015Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S
1016Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 -
1017# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1018Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:20 - LMT 1880
1019 0:17:20 - BMT 1892 May 1 12:00 # Brussels MT
1020 0:00 - WET 1914 Aug 4
1021 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Mar 1 23:00
1022 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 Feb 24 23:00
1023 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1024 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977
1025 1:00 EU CE%sT
1026
1027# Bosnia and Herzegovina
1028# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1029Zone Europe/Sarajevo 1:13:40 - LMT 1884
1030 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
1031 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
1032 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
1033 1:00 - CET 1983
1034 1:00 EU CE%sT
1035
1036# Bulgaria
1037# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1038Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S
1039Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
1040Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat<=7 23:00 1:00 S
1041Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 -
1042Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 -
1043# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1044Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880
1045 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT?
1046 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00
1047 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 3:00
1048 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00
1049 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00
1050 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991
1051 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT
1052
1053# Croatia
1054# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1055Zone Europe/Zagreb 1:03:52 - LMT 1884
1056 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
1057 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
1058 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
1059 1:00 - CET 1983
1060 1:00 EU CE%sT
1061
1062# Czech Republic
1063# Gregorian calendar adopted 1584-01-17.
1064# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1065Rule Czech 1945 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S
1066Rule Czech 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
1067Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S
1068Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
1069Rule Czech 1947 only - Apr 20 2:00s 1:00 S
1070Rule Czech 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
1071Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S
1072# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1073Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850
1074 0:57:44 - PMT 1891 Oct # Prague Mean Time
1075 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 17 2:00s
1076 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979
1077 1:00 EU CE%sT
1078
1079# Denmark
1080# Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
1081# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1082Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S
1083Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 -
1084Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
1085Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
1086Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 -
1087Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S
1088Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 -
1089Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S
1090Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 -
1091Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S
1092Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 -
1093# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 to 1949 Oct 1, and disagrees in minor ways
1094# about many of the above dates; go with Shanks.
1095#
1096# For 1894, Shanks says Jan, Whitman Apr; go with Whitman.
1097# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1098Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890
1099 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Apr # Copenhagen Mean Time
1100 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s
1101 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1102 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980
1103 1:00 EU CE%sT
1104Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn
1105 0:00 - WET 1981
1106 0:00 EU WE%sT
1107#
1108# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
1109# Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01,
1110# and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU
1111# rules at least through 1984. Shanks says Scoresbysund and Godthab
1112# used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU
1113# rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980.
1114
1115#
1116# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1117Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1118Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1119#
1120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1121Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormit
1122 -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
1123 -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29
1124 -1:00 EU EG%sT
1125Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk
1126 -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
1127 -3:00 EU WG%sT
1128Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik
1129 -4:00 Thule A%sT
1130
1131# Estonia
1132# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15):
1133# A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards
1134# [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it,
1135# a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989....
1136#
1137# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28):
1138# [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s,
1139# but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:]
1140# ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different
1141# (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules
1142# conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia....
1143# A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on
1144# human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to
1145# summer time next spring.''
1146# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1147Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
1148 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
1149 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul
1150 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May
1151 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6
1152 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15
1153 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22
1154 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s
1155 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s
1156 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT
1157
1158# Finland
1159# See Sweden for when the Gregorian calendar was adopted.
1160#
1161# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
1162# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
1163# and it's supposed to change at 4am...
1164#
1165# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994):
1166# Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981.
1167# Go with Strang instead.
1168#
1169# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1170Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
1171Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
1172# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1173Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31
1174 1:39:52 - HMT 1921 May # Helsinki Mean Time
1175 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00
1176 2:00 EU EE%sT
1177
1178# France
1179# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-12-20.
1180# French Revolutionary calendar used 1792-09-22 - 1805-12-31.
1181#
1182# Shanks seems to use `24:00' ambiguously; we resolve it with Whitman.
1183# From Shanks (1991):
1184# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1185Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1186Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
1187Rule France 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
1188Rule France 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
1189Rule France 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
1190Rule France 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1191Rule France 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
1192Rule France 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1193Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 -
1194Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
1195Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1196Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S
1197Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S
1198Rule France 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S
1199Rule France 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
1200Rule France 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
1201Rule France 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1202Rule France 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S
1203Rule France 1930 only - Apr 12 23:00s 1:00 S
1204Rule France 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
1205Rule France 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S
1206Rule France 1933 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
1207Rule France 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S
1208Rule France 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S
1209Rule France 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
1210Rule France 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S
1211Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S
1212Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
1213Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
1214Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S
1215# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris,
1216# but were used in other places (e.g. Monaco).
1217Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 DS
1218Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 1:00 1:00 S
1219Rule France 1942 only - Mar 8 0:00 2:00 DS
1220Rule France 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 1:00 S
1221Rule France 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 2:00 DS
1222Rule France 1943 only - Nov 4 3:00 1:00 S
1223Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 DS
1224Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S
1225Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 DS
1226Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 -
1227Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 S
1228Rule France 1976 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1229# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman gives 0:09:05,
1230# but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21.
1231# Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based
1232# on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC.
1233# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1234Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
1235 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
1236 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14
1237 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25
1238 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00
1239 1:00 France CE%sT 1977
1240 1:00 EU CE%sT
1241
1242# Germany
1243
1244# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1245Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
1246Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 DS
1247Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S
1248Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
1249Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
1250# Whitman gives 1948 Oct 31; go with Shanks.
1251Rule Germany 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
1252Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
1253Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 DS
1254Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S
1255Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
1256Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S
1257# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1258Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr
1259 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1260 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980
1261 1:00 EU CE%sT
1262
1263# Gibraltar
1264# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1265Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
1266 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00
1267 1:00 - CET 1982
1268 1:00 EU CE%sT
1269
1270# Greece
1271# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1272# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks.
1273Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S
1274Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
1275# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks.
1276Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S
1277# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks.
1278Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
1279Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S
1280Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
1281# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks.
1282Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S
1283Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 -
1284Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S
1285Rule Greece 1975 only - Nov 26 0:00s 0 -
1286Rule Greece 1976 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 S
1287Rule Greece 1976 only - Oct 10 2:00s 0 -
1288Rule Greece 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
1289Rule Greece 1977 only - Sep 26 2:00s 0 -
1290Rule Greece 1978 only - Sep 24 4:00 0 -
1291Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S
1292Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 -
1293Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1294Rule Greece 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
1295# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1296Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14
1297 1:34:52 - AMT 1916 Jul 28 0:01 # Athens MT
1298 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1941 Apr 30
1299 1:00 Greece CE%sT 1944 Apr 4
1300 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1981
1301 # Shanks says they switched to C-Eur in 1981;
1302 # go with EU instead, since Greece joined it on Jan 1.
1303 2:00 EU EE%sT
1304
1305# Hungary
1306# Gregorian calendar adopted 1587-11-01.
1307# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1308Rule Hungary 1918 only - Apr 1 3:00 1:00 S
1309Rule Hungary 1918 only - Sep 29 3:00 0 -
1310Rule Hungary 1919 only - Apr 15 3:00 1:00 S
1311Rule Hungary 1919 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 -
1312Rule Hungary 1920 only - Apr 5 3:00 1:00 S
1313Rule Hungary 1920 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
1314Rule Hungary 1945 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 S
1315Rule Hungary 1945 only - Nov 3 0:00 0 -
1316Rule Hungary 1946 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S
1317Rule Hungary 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
1318Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=4 2:00s 1:00 S
1319Rule Hungary 1950 only - Apr 17 2:00s 1:00 S
1320Rule Hungary 1950 only - Oct 23 2:00s 0 -
1321Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - May 23 0:00 1:00 S
1322Rule Hungary 1954 1955 - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
1323Rule Hungary 1956 only - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
1324Rule Hungary 1956 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1325Rule Hungary 1957 only - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 S
1326Rule Hungary 1957 only - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -
1327Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 1:00 1:00 S
1328# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1329Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct
1330 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918
1331 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 6 2:00
1332 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 1 23:00
1333 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1980 Sep 28 2:00s
1334 1:00 EU CE%sT
1335
1336# Iceland
1337#
1338# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06):
1339# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
1340#
1341# (1993-12-05):
1342# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of
1343# Iceland Almanak.
1344#
1345# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour
1346# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts
1347# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavik mean solar time which
1348# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT.
1349#
1350# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks
1351# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the
1352# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always
1353# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
1354#
1355# (1993-12-10):
1356# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the
1357# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus
1358# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question.
1359# the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day
1360# (old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday.
1361# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style"
1362# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
1363# might mean something else (???).
1364#
1365# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-12-09):
1366# The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points.
1367# We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that
1368# Reykavik was -1:28 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that.
1369#
1370# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1371Rule Iceland 1917 1918 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 S
1372Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 -
1373Rule Iceland 1918 only - Nov 16 1:00 0 -
1374Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 S
1375Rule Iceland 1939 only - Nov 29 2:00 0 -
1376Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S
1377Rule Iceland 1940 only - Nov 3 2:00 0 -
1378Rule Iceland 1941 only - Mar 2 1:00s 1:00 S
1379Rule Iceland 1941 only - Nov 2 1:00s 0 -
1380Rule Iceland 1942 only - Mar 8 1:00s 1:00 S
1381Rule Iceland 1942 only - Oct 25 1:00s 0 -
1382# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter
1383Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S
1384Rule Iceland 1943 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 -
1385# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter
1386Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S
1387# 1949 Oct transition delayed by 1 week
1388Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 -
1389Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 -
1390Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 -
1391# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1392Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837
1393 -1:27:48 - RMT 1908 # Reykjavik Mean Time?
1394 -1:00 Iceland IS%sT 1968 Apr 7 1:00s
1395 0:00 - GMT
1396
1397# Italy
1398# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
1399#
1400# From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06):
1401# For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri
1402# <URL:http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html> (1996-03-14) (`FP'
1403# below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute publication.
1404# When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows:
1405#
1406# year FP Shanks (S) Whitman (W) Go with:
1407# 1916 06-03 06-03 24:00 06-03 00:00 FP & W
1408# 09-30 09-30 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s
1409# 1917 04-01 03-31 24:00 03-31 00:00 FP & S
1410# 09-30 09-29 24:00 09-30 01:00 FP & W
1411# 1918 03-09 03-09 24:00 03-09 00:00 FP & S
1412# 10-06 10-05 24:00 10-06 01:00 FP & W
1413# 1919 03-01 03-01 24:00 03-01 00:00 FP & S
1414# 10-04 10-04 24:00 10-04 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s
1415# 1920 03-20 03-20 24:00 03-20 00:00 FP & S
1416# 09-18 09-18 24:00 10-01 01:00 FP; guess 24:00s
1417# 1944 04-02 04-03 02:00 S (see C-Eur)
1418# 09-16 10-02 03:00 FP; guess 24:00s
1419# 1945 09-14 09-16 24:00 FP; guess 24:00s
1420# 1970 05-21 05-31 00:00 S
1421# 09-20 09-27 00:00 S
1422#
1423# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1424Rule Italy 1916 only - Jun 3 0:00s 1:00 S
1425Rule Italy 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 -
1426Rule Italy 1917 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 S
1427Rule Italy 1917 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 -
1428Rule Italy 1918 only - Mar 10 0:00s 1:00 S
1429Rule Italy 1918 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 -
1430Rule Italy 1919 only - Mar 2 0:00s 1:00 S
1431Rule Italy 1920 only - Mar 21 0:00s 1:00 S
1432Rule Italy 1920 only - Sep 19 0:00s 0 -
1433Rule Italy 1940 only - Jun 15 0:00s 1:00 S
1434Rule Italy 1944 only - Sep 17 0:00s 0 -
1435Rule Italy 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 S
1436Rule Italy 1945 only - Sep 15 0:00s 0 -
1437Rule Italy 1946 only - Mar 17 2:00s 1:00 S
1438Rule Italy 1946 only - Oct 6 2:00s 0 -
1439Rule Italy 1947 only - Mar 16 0:00s 1:00 S
1440Rule Italy 1947 only - Oct 5 0:00s 0 -
1441Rule Italy 1948 only - Feb 29 2:00s 1:00 S
1442Rule Italy 1948 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 -
1443Rule Italy 1966 1968 - May Sun>=22 0:00 1:00 S
1444Rule Italy 1966 1969 - Sep Sun>=22 0:00 0 -
1445Rule Italy 1969 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
1446Rule Italy 1970 only - May 31 0:00 1:00 S
1447Rule Italy 1970 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1448Rule Italy 1971 1972 - May Sun>=22 0:00 1:00 S
1449Rule Italy 1971 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 -
1450Rule Italy 1972 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1451Rule Italy 1973 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 S
1452Rule Italy 1973 1974 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1453Rule Italy 1974 only - May 26 0:00 1:00 S
1454Rule Italy 1975 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S
1455Rule Italy 1975 1977 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 -
1456Rule Italy 1976 only - May 30 0:00s 1:00 S
1457Rule Italy 1977 1979 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S
1458Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 -
1459Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 -
1460# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1461Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22
1462 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov # Rome Mean Time
1463 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s
1464 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul
1465 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980
1466 1:00 EU CE%sT
1467
1468Link Europe/Rome Europe/Vatican
1469Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino
1470
1471# Latvia
1472# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
1473# Rules after 1991 are by extension from Shanks. They contradict
1474# IATA SSIM (1992/1996), which claims Latvia uses W-Eur rules, but
1475# Peter Ilieve's relative writes that Latvia switched in September this year,
1476# so we'll assume that the old C-Eur-style rules still apply.
1477# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1478Rule Latvia 1992 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1479Rule Latvia 1992 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1480# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1481Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880
1482 1:36:24 - RMT 1918 Apr 15 2:00 #Riga Mean Time
1483 1:36:24 1:00 LST 1918 Sep 16 3:00 #Latvian Summer
1484 1:36:24 - RMT 1919 Apr 1 2:00
1485 1:36:24 1:00 LST 1919 May 22 3:00
1486 1:36:24 - RMT 1926 May 11
1487 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 5
1488 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jul
1489 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 8
1490 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1491 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1492 2:00 Latvia EE%sT
1493
1494# Liechtenstein
1495# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1496Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun
1497 1:00 - CET 1981
1498 1:00 EU CE%sT
1499
1500# Lithuania
1501# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1502Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
1503 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time
1504 1:35:36 - KMT 1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time
1505 1:00 - CET 1920 Jul 12
1506 2:00 - EET 1920 Oct 9
1507 1:00 - CET 1940 Aug 3
1508 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 24
1509 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug
1510 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1511 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1512 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT
1513# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
1514# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is
1515# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too.
1516
1517# Luxembourg
1518# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.
1519# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1520Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S
1521Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
1522Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S
1523Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 -
1524Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S
1525Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 -
1526Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S
1527Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 -
1528Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S
1529Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 -
1530Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S
1531Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 -
1532Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S
1533Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 -
1534Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S
1535Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 -
1536Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S
1537Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 -
1538Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S
1539Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S
1540Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S
1541Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S
1542Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S
1543# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1544Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun
1545 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25
1546 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s
1547 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00
1548 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00
1549 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977
1550 1:00 EU CE%sT
1551
1552# Macedonia
1553# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1554Zone Europe/Skopje 1:25:44 - LMT 1884
1555 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
1556 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
1557 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
1558 1:00 - CET 1983
1559 1:00 EU CE%sT
1560
1561# Malta
1562# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1563Rule Malta 1973 only - Mar 31 0:00s 1:00 S
1564Rule Malta 1973 only - Sep 29 0:00s 0 -
1565Rule Malta 1974 only - Apr 21 0:00s 1:00 S
1566Rule Malta 1974 only - Sep 16 0:00s 0 -
1567Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
1568Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
1569Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
1570# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1571Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta
1572 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s
1573 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s
1574 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31
1575 1:00 Malta CE%sT 1981
1576 1:00 EU CE%sT
1577
1578# Moldova
1579# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1580Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1924 May 2
1581 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
1582 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1583 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1584 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT
1585
1586# Monaco
1587# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21.
1588# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1589Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15
1590 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
1591 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00
1592 1:00 France CE%sT 1977
1593 1:00 EU CE%sT
1594
1595# Netherlands
1596# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940,
1597# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time.
1598# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1599# Shanks gives 1916 May 1 0:00 and 1916 Oct 1 0:00; go with Whitman.
1600Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time
1601Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time
1602Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST
1603Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT
1604# Whitman gives 1918 Apr 14, 1918 Oct 31, and 1921 Sep 28; go with Shanks.
1605Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST
1606Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep Mon>=24 2:00s 0 AMT
1607Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 NST
1608# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 1; go with Shanks.
1609Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT
1610Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun 1 2:00s 1:00 NST
1611Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 NST
1612# Whitman gives 1925 Apr 5; go with Shanks.
1613Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun 5 2:00s 1:00 NST
1614# For 1926 through 1930 Whitman gives Apr 15; go with Shanks.
1615Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST
1616Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST
1617Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST
1618Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST
1619Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S
1620Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 -
1621# Whitman gives 1939 Apr 15 and 1940 Apr 19; go with Shanks.
1622Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S
1623Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
1624Rule Neth 1945 only - May 20 2:00s 0 -
1625# Before 1937, Shanks says just `0:20'; we use Whitman's more precise figure.
1626# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1627Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:28 - LMT 1892 May
1628 0:19:28 Neth %s 1937 Jul
1629 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 16 0:40
1630 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1631 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977
1632 1:00 EU CE%sT
1633
1634# Norway
1635# Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
1636# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1637# Whitman gives 1916 May 21 - 1916 Oct 21; go with Shanks.
1638Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S
1639Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
1640# Shanks omits the following transition; go with Whitman.
1641Rule Norway 1935 only - Aug 11 0:00 1:00 S
1642# Whitman says DST observed until 1942 Nov 1, then 1943 Mar 29 - Oct 4,
1643# 1944 Apr 3 - Oct 2, and 1945 Apr 1 - Oct 1; go with Shanks after 1940.
1644Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
1645Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 -
1646Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S
1647Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
1648Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S
1649# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1650Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895
1651 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00
1652 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1653 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980
1654 1:00 EU CE%sT
1655#
1656# Svalbard
1657Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen
1658#
1659# Jan Mayen
1660# From Whitman:
1661# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1662Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - EGT
1663
1664# Poland
1665# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1666Rule Poland 1918 1919 - Sep 16 2:00s 0 -
1667Rule Poland 1919 only - Apr 15 2:00s 1:00 S
1668# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks.
1669Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 -
1670# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks.
1671Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S
1672Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
1673Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 S
1674Rule Poland 1946 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 -
1675Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S
1676Rule Poland 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
1677Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S
1678# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 - 1949 Oct 1; go with Shanks.
1679Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S
1680Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
1681Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S
1682Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S
1683Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 -
1684Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S
1685Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May Sun>=25 1:00s 1:00 S
1686Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
1687# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1688Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880
1689 1:24:00 - WMT 1915 Aug 5 # Warsaw Mean Time
1690 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00
1691 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun
1692 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00
1693 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct
1694 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 Apr 3 1:00
1695 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT
1696# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) gives EU rules, but the _The Warsaw Voice_
1697# <URL:http://www.contact.waw.pl/voice/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml>
1698# (1995-09-24) says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00.
1699# Stick with W-Eur for now.
1700
1701# Portugal
1702# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
1703#
1704# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12):
1705# Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
1706# (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC.
1707#
1708# Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve
1709# that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring.
1710# The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter.
1711#
1712# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12):
1713# IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions
1714# at 02:00u, not 01:00u. Assume that these are typos.
1715# IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00.
1716# IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00.
1717# Guess that the Azores changed to EU rules in 1992 (since that's when Portugal
1718# harmonized with the EU), and that they stayed +0:00 that winter.
1719#
1720# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1721Rule Port 1916 only - Jun 17 23:00 1:00 S
1722# Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks.
1723Rule Port 1916 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 -
1724Rule Port 1917 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S
1725Rule Port 1917 1921 - Oct 14 23:00s 0 -
1726Rule Port 1918 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
1727Rule Port 1919 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S
1728Rule Port 1920 only - Feb 29 23:00s 1:00 S
1729Rule Port 1921 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S
1730Rule Port 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S
1731Rule Port 1924 only - Oct 14 23:00s 0 -
1732Rule Port 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
1733Rule Port 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1734Rule Port 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
1735Rule Port 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1736Rule Port 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S
1737Rule Port 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
1738# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks.
1739Rule Port 1931 1932 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1740Rule Port 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S
1741# Shanks gives 1934 Apr 4; go with Whitman.
1742Rule Port 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S
1743# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks.
1744Rule Port 1934 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1745# Shanks gives 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman.
1746Rule Port 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S
1747Rule Port 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
1748# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks.
1749Rule Port 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S
1750Rule Port 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S
1751Rule Port 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
1752# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks.
1753Rule Port 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
1754Rule Port 1940 only - Feb 24 23:00s 1:00 S
1755# Shanks gives 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman.
1756Rule Port 1940 1941 - Oct 5 23:00s 0 -
1757Rule Port 1941 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S
1758Rule Port 1942 1945 - Mar Sat>=8 23:00s 1:00 S
1759Rule Port 1942 only - Apr 25 22:00s 2:00 DS
1760Rule Port 1942 only - Aug 15 22:00s 1:00 S
1761Rule Port 1942 1945 - Oct Sat>=24 23:00s 0 -
1762Rule Port 1943 only - Apr 17 22:00s 2:00 DS
1763Rule Port 1943 1945 - Aug Sat>=25 22:00s 1:00 S
1764Rule Port 1944 1945 - Apr Sat>=21 22:00s 2:00 DS
1765Rule Port 1946 only - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s 1:00 S
1766Rule Port 1946 only - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1767Rule Port 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
1768Rule Port 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
1769# Shanks says DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman.
1770# Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks.
1771Rule Port 1951 1965 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
1772Rule Port 1951 1965 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
1773Rule Port 1977 only - Mar 27 0:00s 1:00 S
1774Rule Port 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00s 0 -
1775Rule Port 1978 1979 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 S
1776Rule Port 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 -
1777Rule Port 1979 1982 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
1778Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S
1779Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
1780Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1781# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1782Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884
1783 -0:36:32 - LMT 1911 May 24 # Lisbon Mean Time
1784 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00
1785 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00
1786 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s
1787 0:00 W-Eur WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s
1788 1:00 EU CE%sT 1996 Mar 31 1:00u
1789 0:00 EU WE%sT
1790Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada
1791 -1:55 - HMT 1911 May 24 # Horta Mean Time
1792 -2:00 Port AZO%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Azores Time
1793 -1:00 Port AZO%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s
1794 -1:00 W-Eur AZO%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s
1795 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Mar 28 1:00u
1796 -1:00 EU AZO%sT
1797Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal
1798 -1:08 - FMT 1911 May 24 # Funchal Mean Time
1799 -1:00 Port MAD%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Madeira Time
1800 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s
1801 0:00 EU WE%sT
1802
1803# Romania
1804# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1805Rule Romania 1932 only - May 21 0:00s 1:00 S
1806Rule Romania 1932 1939 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 -
1807Rule Romania 1933 1939 - Apr Sun>=2 0:00s 1:00 S
1808Rule Romania 1979 only - May 27 0:00 1:00 S
1809Rule Romania 1979 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1810Rule Romania 1980 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S
1811Rule Romania 1980 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 -
1812Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S
1813Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 -
1814# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1815Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
1816 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT
1817 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00s
1818 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991
1819 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1994
1820 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT
1821
1822# Russia
1823
1824# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-12-02):
1825# On 1929-10-01 the Soviet Union instituted an ``Eternal Calendar''
1826# with 30-day months plus 5 holidays, with a 5-day week.
1827# On 1931-12-01 it changed to a 6-day week; in 1934 it reverted to the
1828# Gregorian calendar while retaining the 6-day week; on 1940-06-27 it
1829# reverted to the 7-day week. With the 6-day week the usual days
1830# off were the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month.
1831# (Source: Evitiar Zerubavel, _The Seven Day Circle_)
1832#
1833# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22):
1834# Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations,
1835# and (unless otherwise specified) guessed what happened after 1991.
1836# Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991,
1837# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks and the IATA.
1838#
1839# From Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> (1996-10-04):
1840# `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with
1841# Unix-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group)....
1842# The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor
1843# (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there.
1844#
1845# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30):
1846# According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from
1847# Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ...
1848# still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located.
1849#
1850# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1851Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr
1852 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945
1853 2:00 Poland CET 1946
1854 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1855 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1856 2:00 - EET 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1857 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1994
1858# IATA SSIM (1994-02) says Kaliningrad is at UTC+2; guess 1994 change.
1859 2:00 Russia EE%sT
1860Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880
1861 2:30:20 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 2:00
1862 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1922 Oct
1863 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
1864 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1865 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1866 2:00 - EET 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1867 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD
1868Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:36 - LMT 1924 May 2
1869 3:00 - KUYT 1957 Mar # Kuybyshev Time
1870 4:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1871 3:00 1:00 KUYST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1872 3:00 - SAMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Samara Time
1873 4:00 Russia SAM%sT
1874Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:34 - LMT 1924 May 2
1875 4:00 - SVET 1957 Mar # Sverdlovsk Time
1876 5:00 Russia SVE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1877 4:00 1:00 SVEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1878 4:00 - SVET 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1879 5:00 Russia YEK%sT # Yekaterinburg Time
1880Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1924 May 2
1881 5:00 - OMST 1957 Mar # Omsk Time
1882 6:00 Russia OMS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1883 5:00 1:00 OMSST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1884 5:00 - OMST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1885 6:00 Russia OMS%sT
1886# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29):
1887# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
1888# I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
1889# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
1890# so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch.
1891Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
1892 6:00 - NOVT 1957 Mar # Novosibirsk Time
1893 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1894 6:00 1:00 NOVST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1895 6:00 - NOVT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1896 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1994 Mar 27 2:00s
1897 6:00 1:00 NOVST 1994 Sep 25 2:00s
1898 6:00 Russia NOV%sT
1899Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:20 - LMT 1924 May 2
1900 6:00 - KRAT 1957 Mar # Krasnoyarsk Time
1901 7:00 Russia KRA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1902 6:00 1:00 KRAST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1903 6:00 - KRAT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1904 7:00 Russia KRA%sT
1905Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880
1906 6:57:20 - IMT 1924 May 2 # Irkutsk Mean Time
1907 7:00 - IRKT 1957 Mar # Irkutsk Time
1908 8:00 Russia IRK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1909 7:00 1:00 IRKST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1910 7:00 - IRKT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1911 8:00 Russia IRK%sT
1912Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
1913 8:00 - YAKT 1957 Mar # Yakutsk Time
1914 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1915 8:00 1:00 YAKST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1916 8:00 - YAKT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1917 9:00 Russia YAK%sT
1918Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1880
1919 8:47:44 - VMT 1924 May 2 # Vladivostok MT
1920 9:00 - VLAT 1957 Mar # Vladivostok Time
1921 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1922 9:00 1:00 VLAST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1923 9:00 - VLAT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1924 10:00 Russia VLA%sT
1925Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1926 10:00 - MAGT 1957 Mar # Magadan Time
1927 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1928 10:00 1:00 MAGST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1929 10:00 - MAGT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1930 11:00 Russia MAG%sT
1931# This name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long.
1932Zone Asia/Kamchatka 10:34:36 - LMT 1924 May 2
1933 11:00 - PETT 1957 Mar # P-K Time
1934 12:00 Russia PET%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1935 11:00 1:00 PETST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1936 11:00 - PETT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1937 12:00 Russia PET%sT
1938Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2
1939 12:00 - ANAT 1957 Mar # Anadyr Time
1940 13:00 Russia ANA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1941 12:00 1:00 ANAST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
1942 12:00 - ANAT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
1943 13:00 Russia ANA%sT
1944
1945# Slovakia
1946Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
1947
1948# Slovenia
1949# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1950Zone Europe/Ljubljana 0:58:04 - LMT 1884
1951 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
1952 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
1953 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
1954 1:00 - CET 1983
1955 1:00 EU CE%sT
1956
1957# Spain
1958# Gregorian calendar adopted 1582-10-15.
1959# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1960# For 1917-1919 Whitman gives Apr Sat>=1 - Oct Sat>=1; go with Shanks.
1961Rule Spain 1917 only - May 5 23:00s 1:00 S
1962Rule Spain 1917 1919 - Oct 6 23:00s 0 -
1963Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
1964Rule Spain 1919 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S
1965# Whitman gives 1921 Feb 28 - Oct 14; go with Shanks.
1966Rule Spain 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S
1967# Whitman gives 1924 Oct 14; go with Shanks.
1968Rule Spain 1924 only - Oct 4 23:00s 0 -
1969Rule Spain 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
1970# Whitman says no DST in 1929; go with Shanks.
1971Rule Spain 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1972Rule Spain 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
1973Rule Spain 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
1974Rule Spain 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S
1975# Whitman gives 1937 Jun 16, 1938 Apr 16, 1940 Apr 13; go with Shanks.
1976Rule Spain 1937 only - May 22 23:00s 1:00 S
1977Rule Spain 1937 1939 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
1978Rule Spain 1938 only - Mar 22 23:00s 1:00 S
1979Rule Spain 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
1980Rule Spain 1940 only - Mar 16 23:00s 1:00 S
1981# Whitman says no DST 1942-1945; go with Shanks.
1982Rule Spain 1942 only - May 2 22:00s 2:00 DS
1983Rule Spain 1942 only - Sep 1 22:00s 1:00 S
1984Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 22:00s 2:00 DS
1985Rule Spain 1943 only - Oct 3 22:00s 1:00 S
1986Rule Spain 1944 only - Oct 10 22:00s 1:00 S
1987Rule Spain 1945 only - Sep 30 1:00 1:00 S
1988Rule Spain 1946 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
1989Rule Spain 1949 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S
1990Rule Spain 1949 only - Sep 30 1:00 0 -
1991Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Apr Sat>=13 23:00 1:00 S
1992Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 -
1993Rule Spain 1976 only - Mar 27 23:00 1:00 S
1994Rule Spain 1976 1977 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 -
1995Rule Spain 1977 1978 - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S
1996Rule Spain 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
1997# The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978.
1998Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
1999Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2000Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S
2001Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
2002Rule SpainAfrica 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
2003Rule SpainAfrica 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
2004Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
2005Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
2006Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
2007# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2008Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901
2009 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1946 Sep 30
2010 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979
2011 1:00 EU CE%sT
2012Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901
2013 0:00 - WET 1918 May 6 23:00
2014 0:00 1:00 WEST 1918 Oct 7 23:00
2015 0:00 - WET 1924
2016 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1929
2017 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
2018 1:00 - CET 1986
2019 1:00 EU CE%sT
2020Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
2021 -1:00 - CANT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries Time
2022 0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s
2023 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 0:00s
2024 0:00 EU WE%sT
2025# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u.
2026# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
2027
2028# Sweden
2029
2030# From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) <URL:news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com>:
2031#
2032# In 1700, Denmark made the transition from Julian to Gregorian. Sweden
2033# decided to *start* a transition in 1700 as well, but rather than have one of
2034# those unsightly calendar gaps :-), they simply decreed that the next leap
2035# year after 1696 would be in 1744 -- putting the whole country on a calendar
2036# different from both Julian and Gregorian for a period of 40 years.
2037#
2038# However, in 1704 something went wrong and the plan was not carried through;
2039# they did, after all, have a leap year that year. And one in 1708. In 1712
2040# they gave it up and went back to Julian, putting 30 days in February that
2041# year!...
2042#
2043# Then in 1753, Sweden made the transition to Gregorian in the usual manner,
2044# getting there only 13 years behind the original schedule.
2045#
2046# (A previous posting of this story was challenged, and Swedish readers
2047# produced the following references to support it: "Tiderakning och historia"
2048# by Natanael Beckman (1924) and "Tid, en bok om tiderakning och
2049# kalendervasen" by Lars-Olof Lode'n (no date was given).)
2050
2051# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2052Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1878 May 31
2053 1:12:12 - SMT 1900 Jan 1 1:00 # Stockholm MT
2054 1:00 - CET 1916 Apr 14 23:00s
2055 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Sep 30 23:00s
2056 1:00 - CET 1980
2057 1:00 EU CE%sT
2058
2059# Switzerland
2060# From Howse (1988), p 82:
2061# By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace
2062# and their performance improved enormously. Communities began to keep
2063# mean time in preference to apparent time -- Geneva from 1780 ....
2064# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2065# From Whitman (who writes ``Midnight?''):
2066Rule Swiss 1940 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S
2067Rule Swiss 1940 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 -
2068# From Shanks (1991):
2069Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
2070Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
2071# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2072Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1848 Sep 12
2073 0:29:44 - BMT 1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time
2074 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981
2075 1:00 EU CE%sT
2076
2077# Turkey
2078# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2079Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
2080Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2081Rule Turkey 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
2082Rule Turkey 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
2083Rule Turkey 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
2084Rule Turkey 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
2085Rule Turkey 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
2086Rule Turkey 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
2087# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; go with Shanks.
2088Rule Turkey 1924 only - May 13 0:00 1:00 S
2089Rule Turkey 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2090Rule Turkey 1925 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
2091# Shanks omits the first two transitions in 1940; go with Whitman.
2092Rule Turkey 1940 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 S
2093Rule Turkey 1940 only - Oct 5 0:00 0 -
2094Rule Turkey 1940 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S
2095Rule Turkey 1941 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
2096Rule Turkey 1942 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
2097# Whitman omits the next two transition and gives 1945 Oct 1; go with Shanks.
2098Rule Turkey 1942 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
2099Rule Turkey 1945 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 S
2100Rule Turkey 1945 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
2101Rule Turkey 1946 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
2102Rule Turkey 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2103Rule Turkey 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
2104Rule Turkey 1947 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 -
2105Rule Turkey 1949 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
2106Rule Turkey 1950 only - Apr 19 0:00 1:00 S
2107Rule Turkey 1951 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
2108Rule Turkey 1951 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
2109Rule Turkey 1962 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S
2110Rule Turkey 1962 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
2111Rule Turkey 1964 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
2112Rule Turkey 1964 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2113Rule Turkey 1970 1972 - May Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S
2114Rule Turkey 1970 1972 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 -
2115Rule Turkey 1973 only - Jun 3 1:00 1:00 S
2116Rule Turkey 1973 only - Nov 4 3:00 0 -
2117Rule Turkey 1974 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
2118Rule Turkey 1974 only - Nov 3 5:00 0 -
2119Rule Turkey 1975 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S
2120Rule Turkey 1975 1976 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
2121Rule Turkey 1976 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
2122Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
2123Rule Turkey 1977 only - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
2124Rule Turkey 1979 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 3:00 1:00 S
2125Rule Turkey 1979 1982 - Oct Mon>=11 0:00 0 -
2126Rule Turkey 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 3:00 1:00 S
2127Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 0:00 1:00 S
2128Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
2129Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 S
2130Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
2131# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2132Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880
2133 1:56:56 - IMT 1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time?
2134 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1978 Oct 15
2135 3:00 Turkey TR%sT 1985 Apr 20 # Turkey Time
2136 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1986
2137 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991
2138 2:00 EU EE%sT
2139Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
2140
2141# Ukraine
2142# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2143Rule Ukraine 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 UST # Ukrainian Summer Time
2144Rule Ukraine 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 KMT # Kiev Mean Time
2145Rule Ukraine 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 UDST # Ukrainian Double Summer Time
2146Rule Ukraine 1918 only - Sep 17 0:00 1:00 UST
2147Rule Ukraine 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 UDST
2148Rule Ukraine 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 UST
2149Rule Ukraine 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 KMT
2150Rule Ukraine 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 UST
2151Rule Ukraine 1921 only - Mar 21 23:00 2:00 UDST
2152Rule Ukraine 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 UST
2153Rule Ukraine 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 KMT
2154Rule Crimea 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 CST # Crimean Summer Time
2155Rule Crimea 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 NMT # Nikolayev Mean Time
2156Rule Crimea 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 CDST # Crimean Double Summer Time
2157Rule Crimea 1918 only - Sep 17 0:00 1:00 CST
2158Rule Crimea 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 CDST
2159Rule Crimea 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 CST
2160Rule Crimea 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 NMT
2161Rule Crimea 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 CST
2162Rule Crimea 1921 only - Mar 21 23:00 2:00 CDST
2163Rule Crimea 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 CST
2164Rule Crimea 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 NMT
2165Rule Crimea 1996 max - Mar lastSun 0:00u 1:00 -
2166Rule Crimea 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00u 0 -
2167# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2168Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880
2169 2:02:04 Ukraine %s 1924 May 2
2170 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
2171 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 17
2172 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1996
2173 2:00 EU EE%sT
2174Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880
2175 2:08:00 Crimea %s 1924 May 2
2176 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
2177 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
2178 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
2179# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-10-21):
2180# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that most of Crimea switched
2181# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections.
2182# For now, guess it changed Feb 1.
2183 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1994 Feb
2184# From IATA SSIM (1994/1996), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
2185 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996
2186 3:00 Crimea MSK/MSD
2187
2188# Yugoslavia
2189# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2190Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
2191 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
2192 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
2193 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
2194 1:00 - CET 1983
2195 1:00 EU CE%sT
2196
2197###############################################################################
2198
2199# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from
2200# the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986.
2201# The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else.
2202#
2203# According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but
2204# uses the WE DST rules. The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules.
2205# Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at
2206# 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST). It also claims that Turkey
2207# switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time
2208# and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST)
2209
2210# ...
2211# Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100
2212# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann)
2213# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp>
2214# ...
2215#
2216# ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when
2217# most European coun[tr]ies started DST. Before that year, only
2218# a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according
2219# to own national rules. In 1981, however, DST started on
2220# 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following
2221# years...
2222# But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions
2223# than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST
2224# one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep
2225# lastSun' in 1981---I don't know how they handle now.
2226#
2227# Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the
2228# Soviet Union (as far as I know).
2229#
2230# Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG,
2231# 4002 Basle, Switzerland
2232# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho
2233
2234# ...
2235# Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100
2236# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter)
2237# ...
2238#
2239# The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct.
2240# After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information
2241# about DST in Europe. I was able to find all from about 1969.
2242#
2243# ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on
2244# first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September...
2245# In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that
2246# the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March. And from 1982
2247# the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in
2248# the Sov[i]et Union. In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch
2249# dates...
2250#
2251# It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g.
2252# Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST...
2253# Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not
2254# all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations
2255# occurred, though not since 1982 I believe. Another note: it is always
2256# assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the
2257# case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours
2258# in advance of normal time.
2259#
2260# ...
2261# dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
2262# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl
2263# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax
2264
2265# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
2266# ...
2267# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates).
2268# Since 1978. Change at midnight.
2269# ...
2270# Monaco: has same DST as France.
2271# ...
2272
2273# ...
2274# Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 13:43:41 BST
2275# From: Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk>
2276# ...
2277# Turning to Europe, I now have a copy of the `Sixth Council Directive 92/20/EEC
2278# of 26 March 1992 on summertime arrangements'. This only covers 1993 and
2279# 1994, a seventh one is in the works but I doubt that the algorithm will
2280# change. This says summertime starts at 01:00 GMT on the last Sunday in March
2281# and ends at 01:00 GMT on the last Sunday in September, except for the UK
2282# and Eire where it ends at 01:00 GMT on the fourth Sunday in October.
2283# It says the arrangements for 1995 onwards will be decided by 1 January 1994,
2284# but as the sixth directive was supposed to appear by 1 Jan 92 and didn't
2285# arrive til March I wouldn't hold your breath.
2286#
2287# The first summertime directive was adopted in 1980, although the UK didn't
2288# seem to use it until 1981. I suspect it would be safe to move your start
2289# dates for the -Eur rules back to 1981.