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@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ # position is 51° 28' 30" N, 0° 18' 45" W. The longitude should # be within about ±2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761. # -# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] +# [This yields STDOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] # From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # @@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT # # Use Europe/London for Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ Rule Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u -1:00 - Rule Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u -1:00 - Rule Eire 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u -1:00 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00s -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ Rule Russia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - # These are for backward compatibility with older versions. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT @@ -797,14 +797,14 @@ Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tirane 1:19:20 - LMT 1914 1:00 - CET 1940 Jun 16 1:00 Albania CE%sT 1984 Jul 1:00 EU CE%sT # Andorra -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901 0:00 - WET 1946 Sep 30 1:00 - CET 1985 Mar 31 2:00 @@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:21 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s @@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:21 - LMT 1893 Apr # Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time.... # http://eng.belta.by/all_news/society/Belarus-decides-against-adjusting-time-in-Russias-wake_i_76335.html # -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 1:50 - MMT 1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 0:17:30 - BMT 1892 May 1 12:00 # Brussels MT 0:00 - WET 1914 Nov 8 @@ -953,7 +953,7 @@ Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00 1:00 S Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 - Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT? 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00 @@ -986,7 +986,7 @@ Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule Czech 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 0:57:44 - PMT 1891 Oct # Prague Mean Time 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 9 @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - # -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s @@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Thule 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 -3:00 - -03 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -3:00 EU -03/-02 1996 @@ -1211,7 +1211,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # From Urmet Jänes (2002-03-28): # The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul @@ -1274,7 +1274,7 @@ Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - # Milne says Helsinki (Helsingfors) time was 1:39:49.2 (official document); # round to nearest. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:49 - LMT 1878 May 31 1:39:49 - HMT 1921 May # Helsinki Mean Time 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1983 @@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - # but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21. # Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based # on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Paris MT # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. @@ -1412,7 +1412,7 @@ Rule SovietZone 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00 1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946 @@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Busingen # is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. # Gibraltar -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 1:00 - CET 1982 @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 - Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Greece 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 1:34:52 - AMT 1916 Jul 28 0:01 # Athens MT 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1941 Apr 30 @@ -1508,7 +1508,7 @@ Rule Hungary 1956 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - Rule Hungary 1957 only - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 S Rule Hungary 1957 only - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 1:00 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 8 @@ -1569,7 +1569,7 @@ Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s 0:00 - GMT @@ -1583,6 +1583,25 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 # But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, # so record only the time in Rome. # +# From Stephen Trainor (2019-05-06): +# http://www.ac-ilsestante.it/MERIDIANE/ora_legale/ORA_LEGALE_ESTIVA_IN_ITALIA.htm +# ... the [1866] law went into effect on 12 December 1866, rather than +# the date of the decree (22 Sep 1866) +# https://web.archive.org/web/20070824155341/http://www.iav.it/planetario/didastro/didastro/english.htm +# ... "In Italy in 1866 there were 6 railway times (Torino, Verona, Firenze, +# Roma, Napoli, Palermo). On that year it was decided to unify them, adopting +# the average time of Rome (even if this city was not yet part of the +# kingdom). On the 12th December 1866, on the starting of the winter time +# table, it took effect in the railways, the post office and the telegraph, +# not only for the internal service but also for the public.... Milano set +# the public watches on the Rome time on the same day (12th December 1866), +# Torino and Bologna on the 1st January 1867, Venezia the 1st May 1880 and the +# last city was Cagliari in 1886." +# +# From Luigi Rosa (2019-05-07): +# this is the scan of the decree: +# http://www.radiomarconi.com/marconi/filopanti/1866c.jpg +# # From Michael Deckers (2016-10-24): # http://www.ac-ilsestante.it/MERIDIANE/ora_legale quotes a law of 1893-08-10 # ... [translated as] "The preceding dispositions will enter into @@ -1593,6 +1612,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 # The authoritative source for time in Italy is the national metrological # institute, which has a summary page of historical DST data at # http://www.inrim.it/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml +# [now at http://oldsite.inrim.it/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml as of 2017] # (2016-10-24): # http://www.renzobaldini.it/le-ore-legali-in-italia/ # has still different data for 1944. It divides Italy in two, as @@ -1656,8 +1676,8 @@ Rule Italy 1976 only - May 30 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Italy 1977 1979 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22 +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Dec 12 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Oct 31 23:49:56 # Rome Mean 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1943 Sep 10 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jun 4 @@ -1732,7 +1752,7 @@ Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Byalokoz 1919 says Latvia was 1:36:34. # Go with Byalokoz. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:34 - LMT 1880 1:36:34 - RMT 1918 Apr 15 2:00 # Riga MT 1:36:34 1:00 LST 1918 Sep 16 3:00 # Latvian ST @@ -1802,7 +1822,7 @@ Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Vaduz # http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time 1:35:36 - KMT 1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time @@ -1846,7 +1866,7 @@ Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s @@ -1871,7 +1891,7 @@ Rule Malta 1974 only - Sep 16 0:00s 0 - Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 1:00 Malta CE%sT 1981 @@ -1940,7 +1960,7 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT @@ -1956,7 +1976,7 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 # Monaco # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's # more precise 0:09:21. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 @@ -2031,8 +2051,8 @@ Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - # # Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13, but the .13 is omitted -# below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# below because the current format requires STDOFF to be an integer. +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 0:20 Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16 0:00 @@ -2051,7 +2071,7 @@ Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 @@ -2142,7 +2162,7 @@ Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 1:24:00 - WMT 1915 Aug 5 # Warsaw Mean Time 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00 @@ -2247,7 +2267,7 @@ Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S # -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:45 - LMT 1884 -0:36:45 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 0:00u # Lisbon MT 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 @@ -2306,7 +2326,7 @@ Rule Romania 1980 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S Rule Romania 1980 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00s @@ -3345,7 +3365,7 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 # See Europe/Rome. # Serbia -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 @@ -3451,7 +3471,7 @@ Rule SpainAfrica 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1900 Dec 31 23:45:16 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1940 Mar 16 23:00 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 @@ -3519,7 +3539,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. # # Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 @@ -3622,7 +3642,7 @@ Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Mon>=1 1:00 1:00 S Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Mon>=1 2:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Jul 16 # See above comment. 0:29:46 - BMT 1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 @@ -3772,7 +3792,7 @@ Rule Turkey 1986 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - Rule Turkey 1994 only - Mar 20 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1995 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 1:56:56 - IMT 1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time? 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1978 Oct 15 @@ -3869,16 +3889,8 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. # controversial, and some day "Kyiv" may become substantially more popular in # English; in the meantime, stick with the traditional English "Kiev" as that # means less disruption for our users. -# -# Anyway, none of the common English-language spellings (Kiev, Kyiv, Kieff, -# Kijeff, Kijev, Kiyef, Kiyeff) do justice to the common pronunciation in -# Ukrainian, namely [ˈkɪjiu̯] (IPA). This pronunciation has nothing like an -# English "v" or "f", and instead trails off with what an English-speaker -# would call a demure "oo" sound, and it would would be better anglicized as -# "Kuiyu". Here's a sound file, if you would like to do as the Kuiyuvians do: -# https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uk-Київ.ogg -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # This represents most of Ukraine. See above for the spelling of "Kiev". Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # Kiev Mean Time |