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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 92b82b622c..5febba1783 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.73 +# @(#)europe 7.74 # 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 @@ -164,7 +164,26 @@ # main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) # agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). -# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST'; let's assume this is a typo. +# From Joseph S. Meyers (2000-08-10): +# On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir +# Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any +# official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't +# but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British +# Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally. +# I've put a copy of the Home Office letter at +# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png +# and the BBC letter may follow if I get permission from the BBC. + +# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21): +# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time +# which is to be introduced in May.... +# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time" +# which could not be said to run counter to any official description. + +# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): +# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST' too, but `BDST' seems to have been common +# and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, +# so we use `BDST'. # Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. @@ -705,14 +724,14 @@ Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormit +Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29 -1:00 EU EG%sT Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -3:00 EU WG%sT -Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik +Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia |