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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)europe 7.52
+# @(#)europe 7.53
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
###############################################################################
-# United Kingdom
+# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
# The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14.
# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
@@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850
1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979
1:00 EU CE%sT
-# Denmark
+# Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland
# Gregorian calendar adopted 1700-03-01.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837
# From Paul Eggert (1996-05-06):
# For Italian DST we have three sources: Shanks, Whitman, and F. Pollastri
# <a href="http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html">
-# http://pisolo.cstv.to.cnr.it/toi/uk/ienitlt.html (1996-03-14)
+# Day-light Saving Time in Italy (1996-03-14)
# </a>
# (`FP' below), taken from an Italian National Electrotechnical Institute
# publication. When the three sources disagree, guess who's right, as follows:
@@ -1712,11 +1712,9 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980
1:00 EU CE%sT
-#
-# Svalbard
+
+# Svalbard & Jan Mayen
Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen
-#
-# Jan Mayen
# From Whitman:
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - EGT
@@ -2084,9 +2082,10 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
# Sweden
# From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
-# <a href=news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com>
-# news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com
-# </a>:
+# <a href="news:1996Jul6.012937.29190@sq.com">
+# Subject: Re: Gregorian reform -- a part of locale?
+# </a>
+# Date: 1996-07-06
#
# In 1700, Denmark made the transition from Julian to Gregorian. Sweden
# decided to *start* a transition in 1700 as well, but rather than have one of