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diff --git a/tz/europe b/tz/europe new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bba4d56 --- /dev/null +++ b/tz/europe @@ -0,0 +1,4196 @@ +# tzdb data for Europe and environs + +# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of +# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. + +# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, +# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to +# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see +# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. + +# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): +# +# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: +# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). +# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. +# +# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source +# for time zone data was the International Air Transport +# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), +# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries +# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, +# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. +# +# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). +# +# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for +# entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# +# Other sources occasionally used include: +# +# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, +# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), +# which I found in the UCLA library. +# +# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition +# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> +# [PDF] (1914-03) +# +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 +# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. He writes: +# "It is requested that corrections and additions to these tables +# may be sent to Mr. John Milne, Royal Geographical Society, +# Savile Row, London." Nowadays please email them to tz@iana.org. +# +# Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919. +# This Russian-language source was consulted by Vladimir Karpinsky; see +# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-August/021320.html +# The full Russian citation is: +# Бялокоз, Евгений Людвигович. Новый счет времени в течении суток +# введенный декретом Совета народных комиссаров для всей России с 1-го +# июля 1919 г. / Изд. 2-е Междуведомственной комиссии. - Петроград: +# Десятая гос. тип., 1919. +# http://resolver.gpntb.ru/purl?docushare/dsweb/Get/Resource-2011/Byalokoz__E.L.__Novyy__schet__vremeni__v__techenie__sutok__izd__2(1).pdf +# +# Brazil's Divisão Serviço da Hora (DSHO), +# History of Summer Time +# <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm> +# (1998-09-21, in Portuguese) +# +# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table; +# the rest are variants of the "xMT" pattern for a city's mean time, +# or are from other sources. Corrections are welcome! +# std dst 2dst +# LMT Local Mean Time +# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic +# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer +# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer +# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe +# 0:19:32.13 AMT* NST* Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937) +# 1:00 BST British Standard (1968-1971) +# 1:00 IST GMT Irish Standard (1968-) with winter DST +# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899) +# 1:36:34 RMT* LST* Riga, Latvian Summer (1880-1926)* +# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe +# 3:00 MSK MSD MDST* Moscow + +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), re EEC/EC/EU members: +# The original six: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, +# Luxembourg, the Netherlands. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal. +# Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for +# entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8% +# on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous +# referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice. +# Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.) +# ... +# Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT. +# I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards. +# ... +# There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules]. +# A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact +# national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the +# different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed +# in the Directive. + + +############################################################################### + +# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) + +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): +# +# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about +# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo +# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph +# of the text said: +# +# 'An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands +# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude +# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed +# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They +# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament, +# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking +# along the towpath within a few yards of it.' +# +# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's +# position is 51° 28' 30" N, 0° 18' 45" W. The longitude should +# be within about ±2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761. +# +# [This yields STDOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] + +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# +# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. +# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, +# and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country. +# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) +# and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903). +# The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway +# in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most +# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847-09-22 the +# Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be +# adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it. +# The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian, +# and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many +# railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public +# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock +# on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands, +# one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal +# system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading +# to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13. +# The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition +# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02. +# +# In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single +# transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much +# about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time. + +# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-19): +# The ancients had no need for daylight saving, as they kept time +# informally or via hours whose length depended on the time of year. +# Daylight saving time in its modern sense was invented by the +# New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson (1867-1946), +# whose day job as a postal clerk led him to value +# after-hours daylight in which to pursue his research. +# In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society +# that proposed a two-hour daylight-saving shift. See: +# Hudson GV. On seasonal time-adjustment in countries south of lat. 30°. +# Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 1895;28:734 +# http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_28/rsnz_28_00_006110.html +# Although some interest was expressed in New Zealand, his proposal +# did not find its way into law and eventually it was almost forgotten. +# +# In England, DST was independently reinvented by William Willett (1857-1915), +# a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society +# who circulated a pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" (1907) +# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, +# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. +# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, +# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. +# Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and +# it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. +# See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18). +# A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in +# a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular +# subscription and open to the public. On the south face of the monolith, +# designed by G. W. Miller, is the William Willett Memorial Sundial, +# which is permanently set to Summer Time. + +# From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28): +# It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of +# summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country +# between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which +# plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the +# foundations of civilization throughout the world. +# -- "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly; +# republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26 +# https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-114/a-silent-toast-to-william-willett-by-winston-s-churchill + +# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08): +# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving" +# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this +# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the +# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer". +# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see: +# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press +# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8. + +# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): +# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's +# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. + +# Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) +# From: Jonathan Leffler +# [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. +# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in +# politics making a fortune, not computing. + +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): +# I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the +# acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published +# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and +# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T." + +# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02): +# ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the +# main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) +# agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). + +# From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03): +# On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir +# Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any +# official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't +# but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British +# Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally. +# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/bbc-19410418.png +# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ho-19410421.png + +# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21): +# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time +# which is to be introduced in May.... +# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time" +# which could not be said to run counter to any official description. + +# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): +# Howse writes (p 157) 'DBST' too, but 'BDST' seems to have been common +# and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, +# so we use 'BDST'. + +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length +# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating +# and extending this list, which can be found in +# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ + +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): +# +# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; +# see Lord Tanlaw's speech +# https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo970611/text/70611-10.htm#70611-10_head0 +# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976). + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# +# For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948. +# +# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger +# are incorrect: +# * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until +# 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain. +# Actually, Wales was identical after 1880. +# * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1. +# It actually just had one transition. +# * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II. +# Actually, it conformed to Britain. +# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18. +# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. +# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). +# +# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger: +# * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT +# to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to +# conform with Great Britain. +# S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise. +# +# The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful; +# we'll ignore it for now. +# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. + +# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-04): +# +# Dunsink Observatory (8 km NW of Dublin's center) was to Dublin as +# Greenwich was to London. For example: +# +# "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." +# -- James Joyce, Ulysses +# +# The abbreviation DMT stood for "Dublin Mean Time" or "Dunsink Mean Time"; +# this being Ireland, opinions differed. +# +# Whitman says Dublin/Dunsink Mean Time was UT-00:25:21, which agrees +# with measurements of recent visitors to the Meridian Room of Dunsink +# Observatory; see Malone D. Dunsink and timekeeping. 2016-01-24. +# <https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/time/dunsink.html>. Malone +# writes that the Nautical Almanac listed UT-00:25:22 until 1896, when +# it moved to UT-00:25:21.1 (I confirmed that the 1893 edition used +# the former and the 1896 edition used the latter). Evidently the +# news of this change propagated slowly, as Milne 1899 still lists +# UT-00:25:22 and cites the International Telegraph Bureau. As it is +# not clear that there was any practical significance to the change +# from UT-00:25:22 to UT-00:25:21.1 in civil timekeeping, omit this +# transition for now and just use the latter value, omitting its +# fraction since our format cannot represent fractions. + +# "Countess Markievicz ... claimed that the [1916] abolition of Dublin Mean Time +# was among various actions undertaken by the 'English' government that +# would 'put the whole country into the SF (Sinn Féin) camp'. She claimed +# Irish 'public feeling (was) outraged by forcing of English time on us'." +# -- Parsons M. Dublin lost its time zone - and 25 minutes - after 1916 Rising. +# Irish Times 2014-10-27. +# https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-lost-its-time-zone-and-25-minutes-after-1916-rising-1.1977411 + +# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): +# Irish laws are available online at <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie>. +# These include various relating to legal time, for example: +# +# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html +# +# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html +# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html +# +# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html +# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html +# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html +# +# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html +# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html +# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html +# +# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is +# <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.] +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# the laws applicable in Ireland.) +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# being GMT+1.) + +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): +# Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31) +# reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time +# (CT), equivalent to French civil time. +# Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that +# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door) +# and Frethun run in CT. +# My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities, +# the French concession operators and the British civil authorities, +# and that the time depends on who you're talking to. +# If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason, +# I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST. +# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST. + +# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): +# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, +# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive No. 94/21/EC. +# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate +# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of +# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is +# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST". +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-07): +# The 1996 anonymous contributor's goal was to determine the correct +# abbreviation for summer time in Dublin and so the contributor +# focused on the "IST", not on the "Irish Summer Time". Though the +# "IST" was correct, the "Irish Summer Time" appears to have been an +# error, as Ireland's Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 states that +# standard time in Ireland remains at UT +01 and is observed in +# summer, and that Greenwich mean time is observed in winter. (Thanks +# to Derick Rethans for pointing out the error.) That is, when +# Ireland amended the 1968 act that established UT +01 as Irish +# Standard Time, it left standard time unchanged and established GMT +# as a negative daylight saving time in winter. So, in this database +# IST stands for Irish Summer Time for timestamps before 1968, and for +# Irish Standard Time after that. See: +# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1971/act/17/enacted/en/print + +# Michael Deckers (2017-06-01) gave the following URLs for Ireland's +# Summer Time Act, 1925 and Summer Time Orders, 1926 and 1947: +# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1925/act/8/enacted/en/print +# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1926/sro/919/made/en/print +# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1947/sro/71/made/en/print + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Summer Time Act, 1916 +Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358 +Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274 +Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Mar 24 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297 +Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Sep 29 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458 +Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844 +Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Oct 25 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363 +Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 +Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT +# The Summer Time Act, 1922 +Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1925 1926 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The Summer Time Act, 1925 +Rule GB-Eire 1925 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1927 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1928 1929 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1930 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1931 1932 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1933 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1934 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1935 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1936 1937 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1938 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379 +Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Nov Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT +# S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883 +Rule GB-Eire 1940 only - Feb Sun>=23 2:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476 +Rule GB-Eire 1941 only - May Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1941 1943 - Aug Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506 +Rule GB-Eire 1942 1944 - Apr Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +# S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932 +Rule GB-Eire 1944 only - Sep Sun>=16 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 +Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Apr Mon>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Jul Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST +# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208 +Rule GB-Eire 1945 1946 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The Summer Time Act, 1947 +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Mar 16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Apr 13 1:00s 2:00 BDST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Aug 10 1:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) +Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Oct 31 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) +Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Oct 30 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) +# Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) +# Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) +Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Apr Sun>=14 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00s 0 GMT +# revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925 +Rule GB-Eire 1953 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT +Rule GB-Eire 1954 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1955 1956 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1957 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST +# Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71) +# Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465) +# Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81) +Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101) +# Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201) +# Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148) +Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST +# Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117) +Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST +# The British Standard Time Act, 1968 +# (no summer time) +# The Summer Time Act, 1972 +Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089) +# Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673) +# Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223) +# Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931) +Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST +Rule GB-Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985) +# Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729) +# Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798) +Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT +# Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982) +# See EU for rules starting in 1996. +# +# Use Europe/London for Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man. + +# 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 + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 + 0:00 EU GMT/BST +Link Europe/London Europe/Jersey +Link Europe/London Europe/Guernsey +Link Europe/London Europe/Isle_of_Man + +# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-15): +# In January 2018 we discovered that the negative SAVE values in the +# Eire rules cause problems with tests for ICU: +# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-January/025825.html +# and with tests for OpenJDK: +# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-January/025822.html +# +# To work around this problem, the build procedure can translate the +# following data into two forms, one with negative SAVE values and the +# other form with a traditional approximation for Irish timestamps +# after 1971-10-31 02:00 UTC; although this approximation has tm_isdst +# flags that are reversed, its UTC offsets are correct and this often +# suffices. This source file currently uses only nonnegative SAVE +# values, but this is intended to change and downstream code should +# not rely on it. +# +# The following is like GB-Eire and EU, except with standard time in +# summer and negative daylight saving time in winter. It is for when +# negative SAVE values are used. +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Eire 1971 only - Oct 31 2:00u -1:00 - +Rule Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00u 0 - +Rule Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00u -1:00 - +Rule Eire 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 0 - +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 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 + 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00s + 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00s + 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00s + 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00s + 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00s + 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27 +# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST. + 1:00 Eire IST/GMT +# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking negative DST; see ziguard.awk. +# 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u +# 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996 +# 0:00 EU GMT/IST +# End of rearguard section. + + +############################################################################### + +# Europe + +# The following rules are for the European Union and for its +# predecessor organization, the European Communities. +# For brevity they are called "EU rules" elsewhere in this file. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S +Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - +Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S +Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - +# The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: +# Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council +# of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. +# http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT + +# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. +Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - + +# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables. +# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time. +Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-07-13): +# +# I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s +# in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was +# corrected in version 2008d). The circumstantial evidence is simply the +# tz database itself, as seen below: +# +# Zone Europe/Paris ... +# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 +# +# Zone Europe/Monaco ... +# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 +# +# Zone Europe/Belgrade ... +# 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s +# +# Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - +# Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# The rule line to be changed is: +# +# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - +# +# It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on +# 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no +# countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items +# affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translate acronyms +# CET and MET: +# +# Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT +# Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT +# +# It this is right then the corrected version would look like: +# +# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# A small step for mankind though 8-) +Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - + +# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time. +Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - + + +# Daylight saving time for Russia and the Soviet Union +# +# The 1917-1921 decree URLs are from Alexander Belopolsky (2016-08-23). + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Russia 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 MST # Moscow Summer Time +# +# Decree No. 142 (1917-12-22) http://istmat.info/node/28137 +Rule Russia 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 MMT # Moscow Mean Time +# +# Decree No. 497 (1918-05-30) http://istmat.info/node/30001 +Rule Russia 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time +Rule Russia 1918 only - Sep 16 1:00 1:00 MST +# +# Decree No. 258 (1919-05-29) http://istmat.info/node/37949 +Rule Russia 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 MDST +# +Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 0:00u 1:00 MSD +Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 MSK +# +# Decree No. 63 (1921-02-03) http://istmat.info/node/45840 +Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 MSD +# +# Decree No. 121 (1921-03-07) http://istmat.info/node/45949 +Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 +05 +# +Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 MSD +Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24): +Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in +# Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14): +Rule Russia 1984 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule Russia 1985 2010 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +# +Rule Russia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - +# As described below, Russia's 2014 change affects Zone data, not Rule data. + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# Wikipedia and other sources refer to the Act of the Council of +# Ministers of the USSR from 1988-01-04 No. 5 and the Act of the +# Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1989-03-14 No. 227. +# +# I did not find full texts of these acts. For the 1989 one we have +# title at https://base.garant.ru/70754136/ : +# "About change in calculation of time on the territories of +# Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Estonian SSR, Astrakhan, +# Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk and Uralsk oblasts". +# And http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt appears to +# contain quotes from both acts: Since last Sunday of March 1988 rules +# of the second time belt are installed in Volgograd and Saratov +# oblasts. Since last Sunday of March 1989: +# a) Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Kaliningrad oblast: +# second time belt rules without extra hour (Moscow-1); +# b) Astrakhan, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk oblasts: second time belt +# rules (Moscow time) +# c) Uralsk oblast: third time belt rules (Moscow+1). + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27): +# Unamended version of the act of the +# Government of the Russian Federation No. 23 from 08.01.1992 +# http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102014034&rdk=0 +# says that every year clocks were to be moved forward on last Sunday +# of March at 2 hours and moved backwards on last Sunday of September +# at 3 hours. It was amended in 1996 to replace September with October. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-06-14): +# According to Kremlin press service, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev +# signed a federal law "On calculation of time" on June 9, 2011. +# According to the law Russia is abolishing daylight saving time. +# +# Medvedev signed a law "On the Calculation of Time" (in russian): +# http://bmockbe.ru/events/?ID=7583 +# +# Medvedev signed a law on the calculation of the time (in russian): +# https://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1413906.html + +# From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15): +# Take "abolishing daylight saving time" to mean that time is now considered +# to be standard. + +# These are for backward compatibility with older versions. + +# 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 +Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST +# for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. + +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): +# The official German names ... are +# +# Mitteleuropäische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 +# Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) = UTC+02:00 +# +# as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz über die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG), +# 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111).... +# I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution +# +# Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) +# Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit" +# Postfach 3345 +# D-38023 Braunschweig +# phone: +49 531 592-0 +# +# ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB +# department for time and frequency transmission. He explained that the +# PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as +# +# Central European Time (CET) = UTC+01:00 +# Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00 + + +# Albania +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Albania 1940 only - Jun 16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1943 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1974 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1974 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1975 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1975 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1976 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1976 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1977 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1977 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1978 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1979 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1980 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1980 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1981 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1981 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1982 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME 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 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 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Austria + +# Milne says Vienna time was 1:05:21. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and +# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and +# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" +# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition +# Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, +# and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12. + +# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-22): +# In 1946 the end of DST was on Monday, 7 October 1946, at 3:00 am. +# Shanks had this right. Source: Die Weltpresse, 5. Oktober 1946, page 5. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 - +Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Austria 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s + 1:00 - CET 1946 + 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Belarus +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-07-02): +# http://www.lawbelarus.com/repub/sub30/texf9611.htm +# (Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from +# 1992-03-25 No. 157) ... says clocks were to be moved forward at 2:00 +# on last Sunday of March and backward at 3:00 on last Sunday of September +# (the same as previous USSR and contemporary Russian regulations). +# +# From Yauhen Kharuzhy (2011-09-16): +# By latest Belarus government act Europe/Minsk timezone was changed to +# GMT+3 without DST (was GMT+2 with DST). +# +# Sources (Russian language): +# http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html +# http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/09/16/ic_articles_116_175144/ +# https://news.tut.by/society/250578.html +# +# From Alexander Bokovoy (2014-10-09): +# 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 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 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 28 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 + +# Belgium +# +# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-25): +# The exposition in the web page +# https://www.bestor.be/wiki/index.php/Voyager_dans_le_temps._L%E2%80%99introduction_de_la_norme_de_Greenwich_en_Belgique +# gives several contemporary sources from which one can conclude that +# the switch in Europe/Brussels on 1892-05-01 was from 00:17:30 to 00:00:00. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28): +# This quote helps explain the late-1914 situation: +# In early November 1914, the Germans imposed the time zone used in central +# Europe and forced the inhabitants to set their watches and public clocks +# sixty minutes ahead. Many were reluctant to accept "German time" and +# continued to use "Belgian time" among themselves. Reflecting the spirit of +# resistance that arose in the population, a song made fun of this change.... +# The song ended: +# Putting your clock forward +# Will but hasten the happy hour +# When we kick out the Boches! +# See: Pluvinage G. Brussels on German time. Cahiers Bruxellois - +# Brusselse Cahiers. 2014;XLVI(1E):15-38. +# https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-15.htm +# +# Entries from 1914 through 1917 are taken from "De tijd in België" +# <https://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html>. +# Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from: +# Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique, +# Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe année, 1991 +# (Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC), +# pp 8-9. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for the 1918/1991 references. +# The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. +# Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Belgium 1918 only - Mar 9 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1918 1919 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1922 1927 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S +# DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd +# Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier), +# to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15 +# changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT. +Rule Belgium 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1928 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1929 only - Apr 21 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1931 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1932 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1933 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1934 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1935 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1936 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1937 only - Apr 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1938 only - Mar 27 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1939 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 + 0:17:30 - BMT 1892 May 1 00:17:30 + 0:00 - WET 1914 Nov 8 + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 1 0:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Nov 11 11:00u + 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 20 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 3 + 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Bosnia and Herzegovina +# See Europe/Belgrade. + +# Bulgaria +# +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No. 94/1997) says: +# EET -> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... +# EETDST -> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 - +Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00 + 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 + 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 3:00 + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Croatia +# See Europe/Belgrade. + +# Cyprus +# Please see the 'asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. + +# Czech Republic / Czechia +# +# From Paul Eggert (2018-04-15): +# The source for Czech data is: Kdy začíná a končí letní čas. 2018-04-15. +# https://kalendar.beda.cz/kdy-zacina-a-konci-letni-cas +# We know of no English-language name for historical Czech winter time; +# abbreviate it as "GMT", as it happened to be GMT. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Czech 1945 only - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Czech 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S +# 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 + 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1946 Dec 1 3:00 +# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST. + 1:00 -1:00 GMT 1947 Feb 23 2:00 +# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking negative DST; see ziguard.awk. +# 0:00 - GMT 1947 Feb 23 2:00 +# End of rearguard section. + 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Use Europe/Prague also for Slovakia. + +# Denmark, Faroe Islands, and Greenland + +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# the law [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1893/83 +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU [actually, EEC and Euratom] treaty with effect from 1973: +# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1972/21100 +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequent decrees with the law +# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1974/223 +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# https://web.archive.org/web/20140104053304/https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=60267 + +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - +Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - +# +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Tórshavn + 0:00 - WET 1981 + 0:00 EU WE%sT +# +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-10): +# Greenland joined the European Communities as part of Denmark, +# obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, and left the European Communities +# on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU +# rules at least through 1984. Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthåb +# used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU +# rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980. + +# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-06), citing +# <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15), +# and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen: +# +# Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC +# is according to the following time line: +# +# The military zone near Thule UTC-4 +# Standard Greenland time UTC-3 +# Scoresbysund UTC-1 +# Danmarkshavn UTC +# +# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be +# introduced. + +# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01): +# +# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at +# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have +# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have +# info from earlier correspondence.] +# +# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule +# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight +# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time.... +# +# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund +# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst. +# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the +# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th +# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in +# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the +# DPC research station at Zackenberg. +# +# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use +# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthåb). +# +# The rest of Greenland, including Godthåb (this area, although it +# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time +# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules. +# +# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and +# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators +# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of +# this area is that it sticks with Godthåb time. This area might be +# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this. + +# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19): +# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place +# there at 2:00 AM. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; +# the 1995 map as like Godthåb. +# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthåb before 1996. +# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error, +# so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year. +# For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules. + +# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20): +# "Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund" is officially named +# "National Park" by Executive Order: +# http://naalakkersuisut.gl/~/media/Nanoq/Files/Attached%20Files/Engelske-tekster/Legislation/Executive%20Order%20National%20Park.rtf +# It is their only National Park. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S +# +# Zone NAME 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 + 0:00 - GMT +# +# Use the old name Scoresbysund, as the current name Ittoqqortoormiit +# exceeds tzdb's 14-letter limit and has no common English abbreviation. +Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit + -2:00 - -02 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -2:00 C-Eur -02/-01 1981 Mar 29 + -1:00 EU -01/+00 +Zone America/Nuuk -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Godthåb + -3:00 - -03 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU -03/-02 +Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik + -4:00 Thule A%sT + +# Estonia +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). +# +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): +# A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards +# [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, +# a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... +# +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): +# [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, +# but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] +# "I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different +# (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules +# conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia.... +# A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on +# human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to +# summer time next spring." + +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law +# http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390 +# refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between +# the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22-27, 120). +# +# I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation +# for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" +# (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). + +# From The Baltic Times <https://www.baltictimes.com/> (1999-09-09) +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time, +# a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6.... +# But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European +# Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory +# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do +# after that. + +# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): +# Regulation No. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation +# No. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all +# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. + +# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21): +# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics. +# Now we are using again EU rules. +# +# From Urmet Jänes (2002-03-28): +# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21. + +# 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 + 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May + 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Oct 31 4:00 + 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Finland + +# From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC): +# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, +# and it's supposed to change at 4am... + +# From Janne Snabb (2010-07-15): +# +# I noticed that the Finland data is not accurate for years 1981 and 1982. +# During these two first trial years the DST adjustment was made one hour +# earlier than in forthcoming years. Starting 1983 the adjustment was made +# according to the central European standards. +# +# This is documented in Heikki Oja: Aikakirja 2007, published by The Almanac +# Office of University of Helsinki, ISBN 952-10-3221-9, available online (in +# Finnish) at +# https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf +# +# Page 105 (56 in PDF version) has a handy table of all past daylight savings +# transitions. It is easy enough to interpret without Finnish skills. +# +# This is also confirmed by Finnish Broadcasting Company's archive at: +# http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401 +# +# The news clip from 1981 says that "the time between 2 and 3 o'clock does not +# exist tonight." + +# From Konstantin Hyppönen (2014-06-13): +# [Heikki Oja's book Aikakirja 2013] +# https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/images/aikakirja/Aikakirja2013kokonaan.pdf +# pages 104-105, including a scan from a newspaper published on Apr 2 1942 +# say that ... [o]n Apr 2 1942, 24 o'clock (which means Apr 3 1942, +# 00:00), clocks were moved one hour forward. The newspaper +# mentions "on the night from Thursday to Friday".... +# On Oct 4 1942, clocks were moved at 1:00 one hour backwards. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-14): +# Go with Oja over Shanks. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 2 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 4 1:00 0 - +Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +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 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 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Åland Is +Link Europe/Helsinki Europe/Mariehamn + + +# France + +# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): +# +# Henri Le Corre, Régimes horaires pour le monde entier, Éditions +# Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993 +# +# Gabriel, Traité de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Trédaniel, +# Paris, 1991 +# +# Françoise Gauquelin, Problèmes de l'heure résolus en astrologie, +# Guy Trédaniel, Paris 1987 + +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-11): +# the law of 1891 <https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64415343.texteImage> +# was published on 1891-03-15, so it could only take force on 1891-03-16. + +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-10): +# Le Gaulois, 1911-03-11, page 1/6, online at +# https://www.retronews.fr/societe/echo-de-presse/2018/01/29/1911-change-lheure-de-paris +# ... [ Instantly, all pressure driven clock dials halted... Nine minutes and +# twenty-one seconds later the hands resumed their circular motion. ] +# There are also precise reports about how the change was prepared in train +# stations: all the publicly visible clocks stopped at midnight railway time +# (or were covered), only the chief of service had a watch, labeled +# "Heure ancienne", that he kept running until it reached 00:04:21, when +# he announced "Heure nouvelle". See the "Le Petit Journal 1911-03-11". +# https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6192911/f1.item.zoom +# +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12): +# That "all French clocks stopped" for 00:09:21 is a misreading of French +# newspapers; this sort of adjustment applies only to certain +# remote-controlled clocks ("pendules pneumatiques", of which there existed +# perhaps a dozen in Paris, and which simply could not be set back remotely), +# but not to all the clocks in all French towns and villages. For instance, +# the following story in the "Courrier de Saône-et-Loire" 1911-03-11, page 2: +# only works if legal time was stepped back (was not monotone): ... +# [One can observe that children who had been born at midnight less 5 +# minutes and who had died at midnight of the old time, would turn out to +# be dead before being born, time having been set back and having +# suppressed 9 minutes and 25 seconds of their existence, that is, more +# than they could spend.] +# +# From Paul Eggert (2020-06-12): +# French time in railway stations was legally five minutes behind civil time, +# which explains why railway "old time" ran to 00:04:21 instead of to 00:09:21. +# The law's text (which Michael Deckers noted is at +# <https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2022333z/f2>) says only that +# at 1911-03-11 00:00 legal time was that of Paris mean time delayed by +# nine minutes and twenty-one seconds, and does not say how the +# transition from Paris mean time was to occur. +# +# tzdb has no way to represent stopped clocks. As the railway practice +# was to keep a watch running on "old time" to decide when to restart +# the other clocks, this could be modeled as a transition for "old time" at +# 00:09:21. However, since the law was ambiguous and clocks outside railway +# stations were probably done haphazardly with the popular impression being +# that the transition was done at 00:00 "old time", simply leave the time +# blank; this causes zic to default to 00:00 "old time" which is good enough. +# Do something similar for the 1891-03-16 transition. There are similar +# problems in Algiers, Monaco and Tunis. + +# +# Shank & Pottenger seem to use '24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman. +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +# DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st +# Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions +# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1930 only - Apr 12 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1933 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - +Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S +# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger +# write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. +# Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arnéguy, Orthez, +# Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamothe-Montravel, Marœuil, La +# Rochefoucauld, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Descartes, +# Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin, +# Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalon-sur-Saône, Arbois, +# Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collonges (Haute-Savoie). +Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer +# Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), +# who quotes the Ephémérides astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes +# as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. +Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1943 only - Oct 4 3:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 M +Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00; +# go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT. +Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 S +Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - +# 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 STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 16 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. + 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 +# Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25 + 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 + 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Germany + +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): +# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische +# Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. +# [See tz-link.html for the URL.] + +# From Jörg Schilling (2002-10-23): +# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by +# https://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/ +# General [Nikolai] Bersarin. + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): +# http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf +# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. +# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so +# this was equivalent to UT +03, not +04. + + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +# http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/441/salt.htm says the following transition +# occurred at 3:00 MEZ, not the 2:00 MEZ given in Shanks & Pottenger. +# Go with the PTB. +Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 3:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M +Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S + +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 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 + 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12): +# Büsingen <http://www.buesingen.de>, surrounded by the Swiss canton +# Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE +# (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did. +# DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1, +# which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin. +# +# Source for the time in Büsingen 1980: +# http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3 + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03): +# Büsingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970. + +Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Busingen + +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + +# Gibraltar +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Greece +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1975 only - Nov 26 0:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1976 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1976 only - Oct 10 2:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1977 only - Sep 26 2:00s 0 - +Rule Greece 1978 only - Sep 24 4:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 - +Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Greece 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 Greece CE%sT 1944 Apr 4 + 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1981 + # Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981; + # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Hungary + +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-09): +# an Austrian encyclopedia of railroads of 1913, online at +# http://www.zeno.org/Roell-1912/A/Eisenbahnzeit +# says that the switch [to CET] happened on 1890-11-01. + +# From Géza Nyáry (2020-06-07): +# Data for 1918-1983 are based on the archive database of Library Hungaricana. +# The dates are collected from original, scanned governmental orders, +# bulletins, instructions and public press. +# [See URLs below.] + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1918/?pg=238 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1919/?pg=808 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1920/?pg=201 +Rule Hungary 1918 1919 - Apr 15 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1918 1920 - Sep Mon>=15 3:00 0 - +Rule Hungary 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00 1:00 S +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1945/?pg=882 +Rule Hungary 1945 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1945 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1946_03/?pg=49 +Rule Hungary 1946 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1946_09/?pg=54 +Rule Hungary 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KulfBelfHirek_1947_04_1__001-123/?pg=90 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DunantuliNaplo_1947_09/?pg=128 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KulfBelfHirek_1948_03_3__001-123/?pg=304 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Zala_1948_09/?pg=64 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SatoraljaujhelyiLeveltar_ZempleniNepujsag_1948/?pg=53 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SatoraljaujhelyiLeveltar_ZempleniNepujsag_1948/?pg=160 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/UjSzo_1949_01-04/?pg=102 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KeletMagyarorszag_1949_03/?pg=96 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1949_09/?pg=94 +Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1954/?pg=513 +Rule Hungary 1954 only - May 23 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1954 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1955/?pg=398 +Rule Hungary 1955 only - May 22 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1955 only - Oct 2 3:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/HevesMegyeiNepujsag_1956_06/?pg=0 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/EszakMagyarorszag_1956_06/?pg=6 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SzolnokMegyeiNeplap_1957_04/?pg=120 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/PestMegyeiHirlap_1957_09/?pg=143 +Rule Hungary 1956 1957 - Jun Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1956 1957 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1980/?pg=189 +Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1980 only - Sep 28 1:00 0 - +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1980/?pg=1227 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1981_01/?pg=79 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1982/?pg=115 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1983/?pg=85 +Rule Hungary 1981 1983 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Hungary 1981 1983 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +# +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Nov 1 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1941/?pg=1204 +# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1942/?pg=3955 + 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 7 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 + 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1984 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Iceland +# +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): +# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. +# +# (1993-12-05): +# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of +# Iceland Almanak. +# +# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour +# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts +# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavík mean solar time which +# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT. +# +# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks +# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the +# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always +# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars. +# +# (1993-12-10): +# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the +# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus +# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question. +# the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day +# (old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday. +# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style" +# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it +# might mean something else (???). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-11-22): +# The information below is taken from the 1988 Almanak; see +# http://www.almanak.hi.is/klukkan.html +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Iceland 1917 1919 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1918 1919 - Nov 16 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1921 only - Mar 19 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1921 only - Jun 23 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Oct 29 2:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1940 1941 - Nov Sun>=2 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1941 1942 - Mar Sun>=2 1:00s 1:00 - +# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1942 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - +# 1949 and 1967 Oct transitions delayed by 1 week +Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 + -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s + 0:00 - GMT + +# Italy +# +# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): +# Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893, +# called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32). +# During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time. +# But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, +# so record only the time in Rome. +# +# From 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 +# force at the instant at which, according to the time specified in +# the 1st article, the 1st of November 1893 will begin...." +# +# From Pierpaolo Bernardi (2016-10-20): +# 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 +# there were effectively two governments at the time, north of Gothic +# Line German controlled territory, official government RSI, and south +# of the Gothic Line, controlled by allied armies. +# +# From Brian Inglis (2016-10-23): +# Viceregal LEGISLATIVE DECREE. 14 September 1944, no. 219. +# Restoration of Standard Time. (044U0219) (OJ 62 of 30.9.1944) ... +# Given the R. law decreed on 1944-03-29, no. 92, by which standard time is +# advanced to sixty minutes later starting at hour two on 1944-04-02; ... +# Starting at hour three on the date 1944-09-17 standard time will be resumed. +# +# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-02): +# I spent 6 Euros to buy two archive copies of Il Messaggero, a Roman paper, +# for 1 and 2 April 1944. The edition of 2 April has this note: "Tonight at 2 +# am, put forward the clock by one hour. Remember that in the night between +# today and Monday the 'ora legale' will come in force again." That makes it +# clear that in Rome the change was on Monday, 3 April 1944 at 2 am. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-27): +# Go with INRiM for DST rules, except as corrected by Inglis for 1944 +# for the Kingdom of Italy. This is consistent with Renzo Baldini. +# Model Rome's occupation by using C-Eur rules from 1943-09-10 +# to 1944-06-04; although Rome was an open city during this period, it +# was effectively controlled by Germany. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Italy 1916 only - Jun 3 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1916 1917 - Sep 30 24:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1917 only - Mar 31 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1918 only - Mar 9 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1918 only - Oct 6 24:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1919 only - Mar 1 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1919 only - Oct 4 24:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1920 only - Mar 20 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1920 only - Sep 18 24:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1940 only - Jun 14 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1944 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1945 only - Sep 15 1:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1946 only - Mar 17 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1946 only - Oct 6 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1947 only - Mar 16 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1947 only - Oct 5 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1948 only - Feb 29 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1948 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1966 1968 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1966 only - Sep 24 24:00 0 - +Rule Italy 1967 1969 - Sep Sun>=22 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1969 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1970 only - May 31 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1970 only - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1971 1972 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1971 only - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1972 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1973 only - Jun 3 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1973 1974 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1974 only - May 26 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1975 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1975 1977 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1976 only - May 30 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1977 1979 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +Link Europe/Rome Europe/Vatican +Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino + +# Latvia + +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): + +# I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy +# of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the +# correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about +# changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981.... +# +# Act No. 35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ... +# according to the Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24 +# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning +# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00) +# and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00). +# +# Act No. 592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ... +# according to the Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13 +# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning +# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of +# September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day). +# +# Act No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ... +# according to the Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14 +# ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, +# Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the +# time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia +# transition to summer time is performed on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 +# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour forward. The end of +# daylight saving time is performed on the last Sunday of September at 03:00 +# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour backward. Exception is +# 1989-03-26, when we must not turn the hands of the clock.... +# +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia of +# 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of +# daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union. + +# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): +# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in +# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of +# 29-Feb-2000 (No. 79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>, +# in Latvian for subscribers only). + +# From RFE/RL Newsline +# http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html +# (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow: +# The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will +# institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported. +# Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their +# clocks one hour in the spring.... +# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvītis noted that Latvia had too few +# daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European +# Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving +# time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government +# urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it +# appears that they will not do so.... + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - + +# Milne 1899 says Riga was 1:36:28 (Polytechnique House time). +# Byalokoz 1919 says Latvia was 1:36:34. +# Go with Byalokoz. + +# 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 + 1:36:34 - RMT 1919 Apr 1 2:00 + 1:36:34 1:00 LST 1919 May 22 3:00 + 1:36:34 - RMT 1926 May 11 + 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 5 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jul + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 13 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s + 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 + 2:00 - EET 2001 Jan 2 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Liechtenstein + +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09): +# Shanks & Pottenger say Vaduz is like Zurich. + +# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-04): +# I was able to access the online archive of the Vaduz paper Vaterland ... +# I could confirm from the paper that Liechtenstein did in fact follow +# the same DST in 1941 and 1942 as Switzerland did. + +Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Vaduz + + +# Lithuania + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): +# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is +# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. + +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): +# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone +# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. + +# From ELTA No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29) <http://www.elta.lt/>, +# via Steffen Thorsen: +# Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours) +# to be valid here starting from October 31, +# as decided by the national government on Wednesday.... +# The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a +# motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was +# already done by Estonia. + +# From the Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism +# <http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm> (2000-03-27): +# Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving. + +# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07): +# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will +# observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid +# down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its +# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of +# 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at +# http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm + + +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 - CET 1920 Jul 12 + 2:00 - EET 1920 Oct 9 + 1:00 - CET 1940 Aug 3 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 24 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 + 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u + 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Luxembourg +# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME 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 + 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00 + 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# North Macedonia +# See Europe/Belgrade. + +# Malta +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-21): +# Assume 1900-1972 was like Rome, overriding Shanks. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Malta 1973 only - Mar 31 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1973 only - Sep 29 0:00s 0 - +Rule Malta 1974 only - Apr 21 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1974 only - Sep 16 0:00s 0 - +Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - +Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Moldova + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# the act of the government of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 132 from 1990-05-04 +# http://lex.justice.md/viewdoc.php?action=view&view=doc&id=298782&lang=2 +# ... says that since 1990-05-06 on the territory of the Moldavian SSR +# time would be calculated as the standard time of the second time belt +# plus one hour of the "summer" time. To implement that clocks would be +# adjusted one hour backwards at 1990-05-06 2:00. After that "summer" +# time would be cancelled last Sunday of September at 3:00 and +# reintroduced last Sunday of March at 2:00. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write +# that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. +# However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence +# on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). +# In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area +# and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. +# But [two people] separately reported via +# Jesper Nørgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. +# The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-17): +# Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as +# "Pridnestrovie") has abolished seasonal clock change (no transition +# to the Winter Time). +# +# News (in Russian): +# http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html +# http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html +# +# The substance of this change (reinstatement of the Tiraspol entry) +# is from a patch from Petr Machata (2011-10-17) +# +# From Tim Parenti (2011-10-19) +# In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspol +# a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32. +# +# (which agrees with the earlier entry that had been removed) +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-26) +# NO need to divide Moldova into two timezones at this point. +# As of today, Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- Tiraspol reversed its own +# decision to abolish DST this winter. +# Following Moldova and neighboring Ukraine- Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- +# Tiraspol will go back to winter time on October 30, 2011. +# News from Moldova (in russian): +# https://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html + +# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02): +# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077 +# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01): +# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that +# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also, +# https://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara +# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time. +# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 - + +# 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 + 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 May 6 2:00 + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 +# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. + 2:00 Moldova EE%sT + +# Monaco +# +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12): +# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1892-05-24, online at +# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/b1c67c12c5af11b41ea888fb048e4fe8.pdf +# we read: ... +# [In virtue of a Sovereign Ordinance of the May 13 of the current [year], +# legal time in the Principality will be set to, from the date of June 1, +# 1892 onwards, to the meridian of Paris, as in France.] +# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1911-03-28, online at +# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/de74ffb7db53d4f599059fe8f0ed482a.pdf +# we read an ordinance of 1911-03-16: ... +# [Legal time in the Principality will be set, from the date of promulgation +# of the present ordinance, to legal time in France.... Consequently, legal +# time will be retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds.] +# +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1892 Jun 1 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 29 # Paris Mean Time + 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 + 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Montenegro +# See Europe/Belgrade. + +# Netherlands + +# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, +# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. + +# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): +# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 +# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including +# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time +# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the +# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was +# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. +# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and +# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). +# +# (2001-04-08): +# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to +# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common +# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. +# +# (2001-04-09): +# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the +# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe +# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was +# actually followed. +# +# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to +# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of +# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most +# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically +# adopted Amsterdam mean time. +# +# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety +# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it +# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe +# Amsterdam mean time. + +# The data entries before 1945 are taken from +# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time +Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time +Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week +# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. +Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13, but the .13 is omitted +# 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 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Norway +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks & +# Pottenger. +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Svalbard & Jan Mayen + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01): +# Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and +# Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the +# time they were declared as parts of Norway. Svalbard was declared +# as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan +# Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From +# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html> and +# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html>). The law/regulation +# for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came +# into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a +# part of this law since 1925/1930. (From +# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html>) I have not been +# able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100) +# before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabited" since 1921 by +# Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever +# since 1921. Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since +# before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere +# between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive). + +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-04): +# +# Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was +# keeping Berlin time. +# +# <https://www.jan-mayen.no/history.htm> says that the meteorologists +# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in +# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite +# frequent air attacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a +# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly +# the UT offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that +# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules. +# +# Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an +# Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says +# <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>). The Svalbard FAQ +# <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were +# expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, +# and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) +# http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html +# the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named +# Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. +# +# All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970, so use Europe/Oslo +# for these regions. +Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen + +# Poland + +# The 1919 dates and times can be found in Tygodnik Urzędowy nr 1 (1919-03-20), +# <http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/publication/32156> pp 1-2. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Poland 1918 1919 - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1919 only - Apr 15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - +# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, +# Toruń Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., +# https://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1 +# Thanks to Przemysław Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. +# He also gives these further references: +# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm> +# Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf> +Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Portugal + +# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne: +# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26) +# https://dre.pt/application/dir/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf +# Lisbon was at -0:36:44.68, but switched to GMT on 1912-01-01 at 00:00. +# Round the old offset to -0:36:45. This agrees with Willett.... +# +# From Michael Deckers (2018-02-15): +# article 5 [of the 1911 decree; Deckers's translation] ...: +# These dispositions shall enter into force at the instant at which, +# according to the 2nd article, the civil day January 1, 1912 begins, +# all clocks therefore having to be advanced or set back correspondingly ... + +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): +# Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone +# (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. +# +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. +# The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. +# +# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12): +# IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions +# at 02:00u, not 01:00u. Assume that these are typos. +# IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00. +# IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00. +# Guess that the Azores changed to EU rules in 1992 (since that's when Portugal +# harmonized with EU rules), and that they stayed +0:00 that winter. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# DSH writes that despite Decree 1,469 (1915), the change to the clocks was not +# done every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules. +# Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1916 only - Jun 17 23:00 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1916 Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1916 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Port 1917 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1917 1921 - Oct 14 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1918 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1919 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1920 only - Feb 29 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1921 only - Feb 28 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1924 only - Oct 14 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1931 1932 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1934 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman. +Rule Port 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S +# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1940 only - Feb 24 23:00s 1:00 S +# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Oct 7; go with Whitman. +Rule Port 1940 1941 - Oct 5 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1941 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 1945 - Mar Sat>=8 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 only - Apr 25 22:00s 2:00 M # Midsummer +Rule Port 1942 only - Aug 15 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1942 1945 - Oct Sat>=24 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1943 only - Apr 17 22:00s 2:00 M +Rule Port 1943 1945 - Aug Sat>=25 22:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1944 1945 - Apr Sat>=21 22:00s 2:00 M +Rule Port 1946 only - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1946 only - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +# Shanks & Pottenger say DST was observed in 1950; go with Whitman. +# Whitman gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on; go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Port 1951 1965 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1951 1965 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1977 only - Mar 27 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1978 1979 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1979 1982 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - +Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +# +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00 + 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + 0:00 W-Eur WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s + 1:00 EU CE%sT 1996 Mar 31 1:00u + 0:00 EU WE%sT +# This Zone can be simplified once we assume zic %z. +Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada + -1:54:32 - HMT 1912 Jan 1 2:00u # Horta MT + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1942 Apr 25 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1942 Aug 15 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1943 Apr 17 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1943 Aug 28 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1944 Apr 22 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1944 Aug 26 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1945 Apr 21 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1945 Aug 25 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1966 Apr 3 2:00 + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + -1:00 W-Eur -01/+00 1992 Sep 27 1:00s + 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Mar 28 1:00u + -1:00 EU -01/+00 +# This Zone can be simplified once we assume zic %z. +Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal + -1:07:36 - FMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u # Funchal MT + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1942 Apr 25 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1942 Aug 15 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1943 Apr 17 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1943 Aug 28 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1944 Apr 22 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1944 Aug 26 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1945 Apr 21 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1945 Aug 25 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1966 Apr 3 2:00 + 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + 0:00 EU WE%sT + +# Romania +# +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07): +# Nine O'clock <http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html> +# (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at +# 04:00 local time in fall 1998. For lack of better info, +# assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997, +# the same year as Bulgaria. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Romania 1932 only - May 21 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1932 1939 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 - +Rule Romania 1933 1939 - Apr Sun>=2 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1979 only - May 27 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1979 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Romania 1980 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1980 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 + 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1994 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + + +# Russia + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15): +# Based on last Russian Government Decree No. 725 on August 31, 2011 +# (Government document +# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ +# in Russian) +# there are few corrections have to be made for some Russian time zones... +# All updated Russian Time Zones were placed in table and translated to English +# by WorldTimeZone.com at the link below: +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm + +# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27): +# Scans of [Decree No. 23 of January 8, 1992] are available at: +# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966 +# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian). + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Regarding the instant when clocks in time-zone-shifting parts of Russia +# changed in September 2011: +# +# One source is +# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/ +# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31, +# 2011 No. 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information. +# +# Another source is +# https://rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html +# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the +# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also +# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on: +# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue No. 5573 September 6, 2011" but which +# does not contain any "effective date" information. +# +# Another source is +# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7 +# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution No. 725 of August 31, 2011... +# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" +# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011. +# +# The Wikipedia article refers to +# http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896 +# which seems to copy the text of the government.ru page. +# +# Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's +# "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" +# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to +# get September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias +# Conradi notes). +# +# None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks. +# +# Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-01): +# According to the Russian news (ITAR-TASS News Agency) +# http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/738562 +# the State Duma has approved ... the draft bill on returning to +# winter time standard and return Russia 11 time zones. The new +# regulations will come into effect on October 26, 2014 at 02:00 ... +# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/%28Spravka%29?OpenAgent&RN=431985-6&02 +# Here is a link where we put together table (based on approved Bill N +# 431985-6) with proposed 11 Russian time zones and corresponding +# areas/cities/administrative centers in the Russian Federation (in English): +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia65.html +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-22): +# Putin signed the Federal Law 431985-6 ... (in Russian) +# http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1333711 +# http://www.pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?111660 +# http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/46279 +# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will look like this: +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-map-2014-07.html + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, +# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger, +# except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat +# 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. +# +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): +# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! +# I do not know why they have decided to make this change; +# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching +# so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. +# +# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): +# 'MSK' and 'MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with +# UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... +# The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor +# (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. +# +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): +# According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from +# Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... +# still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. +# +# For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from +# John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07): +# News - often false - is spread by word of mouth. A rumor that it was +# time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with +# the rest of Russia for two weeks - even soldiers stationed here began +# enforcing curfew at the wrong time. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05): +# There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in +# UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade. I start with the +# SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan +# until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok +# since September 1997.... Although the Kuril Islands are +# administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have +# remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan. + +# From Marat Nigametzianov (2018-07-16): +# this is link to order from 1956 about timezone in USSR +# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2011/11/novyie-granitsyi-chasovyih-poyasov-v-sssr/ +# +# From Paul Eggert (2018-07-16): +# Perhaps someone could translate the above-mentioned link and use it +# to correct our data for the ex-Soviet Union. It cites the following: +# «Поясное время и новые границы часовых поясов» / сост. П.Н. Долгов, +# отв. ред. Г.Д. Бурдун - М: Комитет стандартов, мер и измерительных +# приборов при Совете Министров СССР, Междуведомственная комиссия +# единой службы времени, 1956 г. +# This book looks like it would be a helpful resource for the Soviet +# Union through 1956. Although a copy was in the Scientific Library +# of Tomsk State University, I have not been able to track down a copy nearby. +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2018-07-21): +# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2015/05/center-reforma-ischisleniya-vremeni-br-na-territorii-sssr-v-1957-godu-center/ +# says that the 1956 decision to change time belts' borders was not +# implemented as planned in 1956 and the change happened in 1957. +# There is also the problem that actual time zones were different from +# the official time belts (and from many time belts' maps) as there were +# numerous exceptions to application of time belt rules. For example, +# https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Московское_время#Перемещение_границы_применения_московского_времени_на_восток +# says that by 1962 there were many regions in the 3rd time belt that +# were on Moscow time, referring to a 1962 map. By 1989 number of such +# exceptions grew considerably. + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): +# The comments detailing the coverage of each Russian zone are meant to assist +# with maintenance only and represent our best guesses as to which regions +# are covered by each zone. They are not meant to be taken as an authoritative +# listing. The region codes listed come from +# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Federal_subjects_of_Russia&oldid=611810498 +# and are used for convenience only; no guarantees are made regarding their +# future stability. ISO 3166-2:RU codes are also listed for first-level +# divisions where available. + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Europe/Kaliningrad covers... +# 39 RU-KGD Kaliningrad Oblast + +# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): +# Although Shanks lists 1945-01-01 as the date for transition from +# +01/+02 to +02/+03, more likely this is a placeholder. Guess that +# the transition occurred at 1945-04-10 00:00, which is about when +# Königsberg surrendered to Soviet troops. (Thanks to Alois Triendl.) + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# http://www.rgo.ru/ru/kaliningradskoe-oblastnoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/publikacii/kak-nam-zhilos-bez-letnego-vremeni +# confirms that the 1989 change to Moscow-1 was implemented. +# (The article, though, is misattributed to 1990 while saying that +# summer->winter transition would be done on the 24 of September. But +# 1990-09-24 was Monday, while 1989-09-24 was Sunday as expected.) +# ... +# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 +# says that Kaliningrad switched to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26, avoided +# at the last moment switch to Moscow-1 on 1991-03-31, switched to +# Moscow on 1991-11-03, switched to Moscow-1 on 1992-01-19. + +Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 10 + 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1946 Apr 7 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 2:00 - EET + + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-21), per Tim Parenti (2014-07-03) and +# Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Europe/Moscow covers... +# 01 RU-AD Adygea, Republic of +# 05 RU-DA Dagestan, Republic of +# 06 RU-IN Ingushetia, Republic of +# 07 RU-KB Kabardino-Balkar Republic +# 08 RU-KL Kalmykia, Republic of +# 09 RU-KC Karachay-Cherkess Republic +# 10 RU-KR Karelia, Republic of +# 11 RU-KO Komi Republic +# 12 RU-ME Mari El Republic +# 13 RU-MO Mordovia, Republic of +# 15 RU-SE North Ossetia-Alania, Republic of +# 16 RU-TA Tatarstan, Republic of +# 20 RU-CE Chechen Republic +# 21 RU-CU Chuvash Republic +# 23 RU-KDA Krasnodar Krai +# 26 RU-STA Stavropol Krai +# 29 RU-ARK Arkhangelsk Oblast +# 31 RU-BEL Belgorod Oblast +# 32 RU-BRY Bryansk Oblast +# 33 RU-VLA Vladimir Oblast +# 35 RU-VLG Vologda Oblast +# 36 RU-VOR Voronezh Oblast +# 37 RU-IVA Ivanovo Oblast +# 40 RU-KLU Kaluga Oblast +# 44 RU-KOS Kostroma Oblast +# 46 RU-KRS Kursk Oblast +# 47 RU-LEN Leningrad Oblast +# 48 RU-LIP Lipetsk Oblast +# 50 RU-MOS Moscow Oblast +# 51 RU-MUR Murmansk Oblast +# 52 RU-NIZ Nizhny Novgorod Oblast +# 53 RU-NGR Novgorod Oblast +# 57 RU-ORL Oryol Oblast +# 58 RU-PNZ Penza Oblast +# 60 RU-PSK Pskov Oblast +# 61 RU-ROS Rostov Oblast +# 62 RU-RYA Ryazan Oblast +# 67 RU-SMO Smolensk Oblast +# 68 RU-TAM Tambov Oblast +# 69 RU-TVE Tver Oblast +# 71 RU-TUL Tula Oblast +# 76 RU-YAR Yaroslavl Oblast +# 77 RU-MOW Moscow +# 78 RU-SPE Saint Petersburg +# 83 RU-NEN Nenets Autonomous Okrug + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-23): +# The Soviets switched to UT-based time in 1919. Decree No. 59 +# (1919-02-08) http://istmat.info/node/35567 established UT-based time +# zones, and Decree No. 147 (1919-03-29) http://istmat.info/node/35854 +# specified a transition date of 1919-07-01, apparently at 00:00 UT. +# No doubt only the Soviet-controlled regions switched on that date; +# later transitions to UT-based time in other parts of Russia are +# taken from what appear to be guesses by Shanks. +# (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for pointers to the decrees.) + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# 11. Regions-violators, 1981-1982. +# Wikipedia refers to +# http://maps.monetonos.ru/maps/raznoe/Old_Maps/Old_Maps/Articles/022/3_1981.html +# http://besp.narod.ru/nauka_1981_3.htm +# +# The second link provides two articles scanned from the Nauka i Zhizn +# magazine No. 3, 1981 and a scan of the short article attributed to +# the Trud newspaper from February 1982. The first link provides the +# same Nauka i Zhizn articles converted to the text form (but misses +# time belt changes map). +# +# The second Nauka i Zhizn article says that in addition to +# introduction of summer time on 1981-04-01 there are some time belt +# border changes on 1981-10-01, mostly affecting Nenets Autonomous +# Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast and Chukotka +# according to the provided map (colored one). In addition to that +# "time violators" (regions which were not using rules of the time +# belts in which they were located) would not be moving off the DST on +# 1981-10-01 to restore the decree time usage. (Komi ASSR was +# supposed to repeat that move in October 1982 to account for the 2 +# hour difference.) Map depicting "time violators" before 1981-10-01 +# is also provided. +# +# The article from Trud says that 1981-10-01 changes caused problems +# and some territories would be moved to pre-1981-10-01 time by not +# moving to summer time on 1982-04-01. Namely: Dagestan, +# Kabardino-Balkar, Kalmyk, Komi, Mari, Mordovian, North Ossetian, +# Tatar, Chechen-Ingush and Chuvash ASSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol +# krais, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh, Gorky, Ivanovo, +# Kostroma, Lipetsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tyumen and +# Yaroslavl oblasts, Nenets and Evenk autonomous okrugs, Khatangsky +# district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. As a result Evenk Autonomous +# Okrug and Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug would end +# up on Moscow+4, Tyumen Oblast on Moscow+2 and the rest on Moscow +# time. +# +# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt +# attributes the 1982 changes to the Act of the Council of Ministers +# of the USSR No. 126 from 18.02.1982. 1980-925.txt also adds +# Udmurtia to the list of affected territories and lists Khatangsky +# district separately from Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. Probably erroneously. +# +# The affected territories are currently listed under Europe/Moscow, +# Asia/Yekaterinburg and Asia/Krasnoyarsk. +# +# 12. Udmurtia +# The fact that Udmurtia is depicted as a violator in the Nauka i +# Zhizn article hints at Izhevsk being on different time from +# Kuybyshev before 1981-10-01. Udmurtia is not mentioned in the 1989 act. +# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt +# implies Udmurtia was on Moscow time after 1982-04-01. +# Wikipedia implies Udmurtia being on Moscow+1 until 1991. +# +# ... +# +# All Russian zones are supposed to have by default a -1 change at +# 1991-03-31 2:00 (cancellation of the decree time in the USSR) and a +1 +# change at 1992-01-19 2:00 (restoration of the decree time in Russia). +# +# There were some exceptions, though. +# Wikipedia says newspapers listed Astrakhan, Saratov, Kirov, Volgograd, +# Izhevsk, Grozny, Kazan and Samara as such exceptions for the 1992 +# change. (Different newspapers providing different lists. And some +# lists found in the internet are quite wild.) +# +# And apparently some exceptions were reverted in the last moment. +# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 +# says that Kaliningrad decided not to be an exception 2 days before the +# 1991-03-31 switch and one person at +# https://izhevsk.ru/forum_light_message/50/682597-m8369040.html +# says he remembers that Samara opted out of the 1992-01-19 exception +# 2 days before the switch. +# +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Given the above, we appear to be missing some Zone entries for the +# chaotic early 1980s in Russia. It's not clear what these entries +# should be. For now, sweep this under the rug and just document the +# time in Moscow. + +# From Vladimir Karpinsky (2014-07-08): +# LMT in Moscow (before Jul 3, 1916) is 2:30:17, that was defined by Moscow +# Observatory (coordinates: 55° 45' 29.70", 37° 34' 05.30").... +# LMT in Moscow since Jul 3, 1916 is 2:31:01 as a result of new standard. +# (The info is from the book by Byalokoz ... p. 18.) +# The time in St. Petersburg as capital of Russia was defined by +# Pulkov observatory, near St. Petersburg. In 1916 LMT Moscow +# was synchronized with LMT St. Petersburg (+30 minutes), (Pulkov observatory +# coordinates: 59° 46' 18.70", 30° 19' 40.70") so 30° 19' 40.70" > +# 2h01m18.7s = 2:01:19. LMT Moscow = LMT St.Petersburg + 30m 2:01:19 + 0:30 = +# 2:31:19 ... +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08): +# Milne does not list Moscow, but suggests that its time might be listed in +# Résumés mensuels et annuels des observations météorologiques (1895). +# Presumably this is OCLC 85825704, a journal published with parallel text in +# Russian and French. This source has not been located; go with Karpinsky. + +Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:17 - LMT 1880 + 2:30:17 - MMT 1916 Jul 3 # Moscow Mean Time + 2:31:19 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 0:00u + 3:00 Russia %s 1921 Oct + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1922 Oct + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - MSK + + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-06): +# Europe/Simferopol covers Crimea. + +Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 + 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 +# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched +# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. +# Shanks (1999) says "date of change uncertain", but implies that it happened +# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say +# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it +# changed in May. + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May +# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev. + 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s + 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s +# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST. +# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1997 + 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17): +# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014 +# https://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html +# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-30): +# Simferopol and Sevastopol reportedly changed their central town clocks +# late the previous day, but this appears to have been ceremonial +# and the discrepancies are small enough to not worry about. + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 2:00 + 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - MSK + + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Astrakhan covers: +# 30 RU-AST Astrakhan Oblast +# +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-12): +# On February 10, 2016 Astrakhan Oblast got approval by the Federation +# Council to change its time zone to UTC+4 (from current UTC+3 Moscow time).... +# This Federal Law shall enter into force on 27 March 2016 at 02:00. +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056 + +Zone Europe/Astrakhan 3:12:12 - LMT 1924 May + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 2016 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-11-11): +# Europe/Volgograd covers: +# 34 RU-VGG Volgograd Oblast +# The 1988 transition is from USSR act No. 5 (1988-01-04). + +# From Alexander Fetisov (2018-09-20): +# Volgograd region in southern Russia (Europe/Volgograd) change +# timezone from UTC+3 to UTC+4 from 28oct2018. +# http://sozd.parliament.gov.ru/bill/452878-7 +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2018-10-11): +# The law has been published today on +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201810110037 + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2020-11-27): +# The State Duma approved (Nov 24, 2020) the transition of the Volgograd +# region to the Moscow time zone.... +# https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7 +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2020-12-05): +# Currently proposed text for the second reading (expected on December 8) ... +# changes the date to December 27. https://v1.ru/text/gorod/2020/12/04/69601031/ +# +# From Stepan Golosunov (2020-12-22): +# The law was published today on +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202012220002 + +Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 - +04 1961 Nov 11 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1988 Mar 27 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 2018 Oct 28 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2020 Dec 27 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-11-11): +# Europe/Saratov covers: +# 64 RU-SAR Saratov Oblast + +# From Yuri Konotopov (2016-11-11): +# Dec 4, 2016 02:00 UTC+3.... Saratov Region's local time will be ... UTC+4. +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-11): +# ... Byalokoz listed Saratov on 03:04:18. +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-22): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201611220031 + +Zone Europe/Saratov 3:04:18 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1988 Mar 27 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 2016 Dec 4 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Kirov covers: +# 43 RU-KIR Kirov Oblast +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). +# +Zone Europe/Kirov 3:18:48 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 1992 Mar 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Europe/Samara covers... +# 18 RU-UD Udmurt Republic +# 63 RU-SAM Samara Oblast + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Byalokoz 1919 says Samara was 3:20:20. +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:20 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 - +04 1935 Jan 27 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia +02/+03 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 1991 Oct 20 3:00 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 2010 Mar 28 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Europe/Ulyanovsk covers: +# 73 RU-ULY Ulyanovsk Oblast + +# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-02-17): +# Ulyanovsk ... on their way to change time zones by March 27, 2016 at 2am. +# Ulyanovsk Oblast ... from MSK to MSK+1 (UTC+3 to UTC+4) ... +# 920582-6 ... 02/17/2016 The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading. +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090051 + +Zone Europe/Ulyanovsk 3:13:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u + 3:00 - +03 1930 Jun 21 + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1989 Mar 26 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 2:00 Russia +02/+03 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 3:00 Russia +03/+04 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 3:00 - +03 2016 Mar 27 2:00s + 4:00 - +04 + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Asia/Yekaterinburg covers... +# 02 RU-BA Bashkortostan, Republic of +# 90 RU-PER Perm Krai +# 45 RU-KGN Kurgan Oblast +# 56 RU-ORE Orenburg Oblast +# 66 RU-SVE Sverdlovsk Oblast +# 72 RU-TYU Tyumen Oblast +# 74 RU-CHE Chelyabinsk Oblast +# 86 RU-KHM Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra +# 89 RU-YAN Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug +# +# Note: Effective 2005-12-01, (59) Perm Oblast and (81) Komi-Permyak +# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (90, RU-PER) Perm Krai. + +# Milne says Yekaterinburg was 4:02:32.9; round to nearest. +# Byalokoz 1919 says its provincial time was based on Perm, at 3:45:05. +# Assume it switched on 1916-07-03, the time of the new standard. +# The 1919 and 1930 transitions are from Shanks. + +Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:33 - LMT 1916 Jul 3 + 3:45:05 - PMT 1919 Jul 15 4:00 + 4:00 - +04 1930 Jun 21 + 5:00 Russia +05/+06 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 4:00 Russia +04/+05 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 5:00 Russia +05/+06 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 6:00 - +06 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 5:00 - +05 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Asia/Omsk covers... +# 55 RU-OMS Omsk Oblast + +# Byalokoz 1919 says Omsk was 4:53:30. + +Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:30 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 + 5:00 - +05 1930 Jun 21 + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 5:00 Russia +05/+06 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 6:00 - +06 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-22): +# Asia/Barnaul covers: +# 04 RU-AL Altai Republic +# 22 RU-ALT Altai Krai + +# Data before 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger. + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): +# Letter of Bank of Russia from 1995-05-25 +# http://www.bestpravo.ru/rossijskoje/lj-akty/y3a.htm +# suggests that Altai Republic transitioned to Moscow+3 on +# 1995-05-28. +# +# https://regnum.ru/news/society/1957270.html +# has some historical data for Altai Krai: +# before 1957: west part on UT+6, east on UT+7 +# after 1957: UT+7 +# since 1995: UT+6 +# http://barnaul.rusplt.ru/index/pochemu_altajskij_kraj_okazalsja_v_neprivychnom_chasovom_pojase-17648.html +# confirms that and provides more details including 1995-05-28 transition date. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-02-17): +# Altai Krai and Altai Republic on their way to change time zones +# by March 27, 2016 at 2am.... +# Altai Republic / Gorno-Altaysk MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) ... +# Altai Krai / Barnaul MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) +# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090043 +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090038 + +Zone Asia/Barnaul 5:35:00 - LMT 1919 Dec 10 + 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1995 May 28 + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 6:00 - +06 2016 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Asia/Novosibirsk covers: +# 54 RU-NVS Novosibirsk Oblast + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-05-30): +# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 +# moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7. +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-07-04): +# The law was signed yesterday and published today on +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201607040064 + +Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 + 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 6:00 - +06 2016 Jul 24 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): +# Asia/Tomsk covers: +# 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-24): +# Byalokoz listed Tomsk at 5:39:51. + +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): +# Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-19): +# http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 +# (fifth time belt being UTC+5+1(decree time) +# / UTC+5+1(decree time)+1(summer time)) ... +# Note that time belts (numbered from 2 (Moscow) to 12 according to their +# GMT/UTC offset and having too many exceptions like regions formally +# belonging to one belt but using time from another) were replaced +# with time zones in 2011 with different numbering (there was a +# 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014). + +# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-04-12): +# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1006865-6 +# This bill was approved in the first reading today. It moves Tomsk oblast +# from UTC+6 to UTC+7 and is supposed to come into effect on 2016-05-29 at +# 2:00. The bill needs to be approved in the second and the third readings by +# the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council, signed by the President +# and published to become a law. Minor changes in the text are to be expected +# before the second reading (references need to be updated to account for the +# recent changes). +# +# Judging by the ultra-short one-day amendments period, recent similar laws, +# the State Duma schedule and the Federation Council schedule +# http://www.duma.gov.ru/legislative/planning/day-shedule/por_vesna_2016/ +# http://council.gov.ru/activity/meetings/schedule/63303 +# I speculate that the final text of the bill will be proposed tomorrow, the +# bill will be approved in the second and the third readings on Friday, +# approved by the Federation Council on 2016-04-20, signed by the President and +# published as a law around 2016-04-26. + +# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-26): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604260048 + +Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:39:51 - LMT 1919 Dec 22 + 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2002 May 1 3:00 + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 6:00 - +06 2016 May 29 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Asia/Novokuznetsk covers... +# 42 RU-KEM Kemerovo Oblast + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-10-13): +# Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current time zone on +# March 28, 2010: +# from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700 +# to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600 +# +# This is according to Government of Russia decree No. 740, on September +# 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth +# time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600) +# +# Russian Government web site (Russian language) +# http://www.government.ru/content/governmentactivity/rfgovernmentdecisions/archive/2009/09/14/991633.htm +# or Russian-English translation by WorldTimeZone.com with reference +# map to local region and new Russia Time Zone map after March 28, 2010 +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia03.html +# +# Thus, when Russia will switch to DST on the night of March 28, 2010 +# Kemerovo region (Kemerovo oblast') will not change the clock. + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-02), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): +# The Kemerovo region will remain at UTC+7 through the 2014-10-26 change, thus +# realigning itself with KRAT. + +Zone Asia/Novokuznetsk 5:48:48 - LMT 1924 May 1 + 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2010 Mar 28 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Asia/Krasnoyarsk covers... +# 17 RU-TY Tuva Republic +# 19 RU-KK Khakassia, Republic of +# 24 RU-KYA Krasnoyarsk Krai +# +# Note: Effective 2007-01-01, (88) Evenk Autonomous Okrug and (84) Taymyr +# Autonomous Okrug were merged into (24, RU-KYA) Krasnoyarsk Krai. + +# Byalokoz 1919 says Krasnoyarsk was 6:11:26. + +Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:26 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 + 6:00 - +06 1930 Jun 21 + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 6:00 Russia +06/+07 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 8:00 - +08 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 7:00 - +07 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Asia/Irkutsk covers... +# 03 RU-BU Buryatia, Republic of +# 38 RU-IRK Irkutsk Oblast +# +# Note: Effective 2008-01-01, (85) Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug was +# merged into (38, RU-IRK) Irkutsk Oblast. + +# Milne 1899 says Irkutsk was 6:57:15. +# Byalokoz 1919 says Irkutsk was 6:57:05. +# Go with Byalokoz. + +Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:05 - LMT 1880 + 6:57:05 - IMT 1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time + 7:00 - +07 1930 Jun 21 + 8:00 Russia +08/+09 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 7:00 Russia +07/+08 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 8:00 Russia +08/+09 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 9:00 - +09 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 8:00 - +08 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): +# Asia/Chita covers... +# 92 RU-ZAB Zabaykalsky Krai +# +# Note: Effective 2008-03-01, (75) Chita Oblast and (80) Agin-Buryat +# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (92, RU-ZAB) Zabaykalsky Krai. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-02): +# [The] time zone in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai) - +# Asia/Chita [is changing] from UTC+8 to UTC+9. Effective date will +# be March 27, 2016 at 2:00am.... +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107 + +Zone Asia/Chita 7:33:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - +08 1930 Jun 21 + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 8:00 Russia +08/+09 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 8:00 - +08 2016 Mar 27 2:00 + 9:00 - +09 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): +# Asia/Yakutsk covers... +# 28 RU-AMU Amur Oblast +# +# ...and parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: +# 14-02 **** Aldansky District +# 14-04 **** Amginsky District +# 14-05 **** Anabarsky District +# 14-06 **** Bulunsky District +# 14-07 **** Verkhnevilyuysky District +# 14-10 **** Vilyuysky District +# 14-11 **** Gorny District +# 14-12 **** Zhigansky District +# 14-13 **** Kobyaysky District +# 14-14 **** Lensky District +# 14-15 **** Megino-Kangalassky District +# 14-16 **** Mirninsky District +# 14-18 **** Namsky District +# 14-19 **** Neryungrinsky District +# 14-21 **** Nyurbinsky District +# 14-23 **** Olenyoksky District +# 14-24 **** Olyokminsky District +# 14-26 **** Suntarsky District +# 14-27 **** Tattinsky District +# 14-29 **** Ust-Aldansky District +# 14-32 **** Khangalassky District +# 14-33 **** Churapchinsky District +# 14-34 **** Eveno-Bytantaysky National District + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Our commentary seems to have lost mention of (14-19) Neryungrinsky District. +# Since the surrounding districts of Sakha are all YAKT, assume this is, too. +# Also assume its history has been the same as the rest of Asia/Yakutsk. + +# Byalokoz 1919 says Yakutsk was 8:38:58. + +Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:58 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - +08 1930 Jun 21 + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 8:00 Russia +08/+09 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 9:00 - +09 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): +# Asia/Vladivostok covers... +# 25 RU-PRI Primorsky Krai +# 27 RU-KHA Khabarovsk Krai +# 79 RU-YEV Jewish Autonomous Oblast +# +# ...and parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: +# 14-09 **** Verkhoyansky District +# 14-31 **** Ust-Yansky District + +# Milne 1899 says Vladivostok was 8:47:33.5. +# Byalokoz 1919 says Vladivostok was 8:47:31. +# Go with Byalokoz. + +Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:31 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 + 9:00 - +09 1930 Jun 21 + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Asia/Khandyga covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: +# 14-28 **** Tomponsky District +# 14-30 **** Ust-Maysky District + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time +# in 2011. + +# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25): +# Shanks and Pottenger (2003) has Khandyga on Yakutsk time. +# Make a wild guess that it switched to Vladivostok time in 2004. +# This transition is no doubt wrong, but we have no better info. + +Zone Asia/Khandyga 9:02:13 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - +08 1930 Jun 21 + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 8:00 Russia +08/+09 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 2004 + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? + 10:00 - +10 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 9:00 - +09 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Asia/Sakhalin covers... +# 65 RU-SAK Sakhalin Oblast +# ...with the exception of: +# 65-11 **** Severo-Kurilsky District (North Kuril Islands) + +# From Matt Johnson (2016-02-22): +# Asia/Sakhalin is moving (in entirety) from UTC+10 to UTC+11 ... +# (2016-03-09): +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090044 + +# The Zone name should be Asia/Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. +Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 + 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 25 + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 2016 Mar 27 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): +# Asia/Magadan covers... +# 49 RU-MAG Magadan Oblast + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): +# Magadan Oblast is moving from UTC+12 to UTC+10 on 2014-10-26; however, +# several districts of Sakha Republic as well as Severo-Kurilsky District of +# the Sakhalin Oblast (also known as the North Kuril Islands), represented +# until now by Asia/Magadan, will instead move to UTC+11. These regions will +# need their own zone. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-03-27): +# ... draft bill 948300-6 to change its time zone from UTC+10 to UTC+11 ... +# will take ... effect ... on April 24, 2016 at 2 o'clock +# +# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-05): +# ... signed by the President today ... +# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604050038 + +Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 10:00 - +10 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - +12 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 2016 Apr 24 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): +# Asia/Srednekolymsk covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: +# 14-01 **** Abyysky District +# 14-03 **** Allaikhovsky District +# 14-08 **** Verkhnekolymsky District +# 14-17 **** Momsky District +# 14-20 **** Nizhnekolymsky District +# 14-25 **** Srednekolymsky District +# +# ...and parts of (65, RU-SAK) Sakhalin Oblast: +# 65-11 **** Severo-Kurilsky District (North Kuril Islands) + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-02): +# Oymyakonsky District of Sakha Republic (represented by Ust-Nera), along with +# most of Sakhalin Oblast (represented by Sakhalin) will be moving to UTC+10 on +# 2014-10-26 to stay aligned with VLAT/SAKT; however, Severo-Kurilsky District +# of the Sakhalin Oblast (also known as the North Kuril Islands, represented by +# Severo-Kurilsk) will remain on UTC+11. + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): +# Assume North Kuril Islands have history like Magadan before 2011-03-27. +# There is a decent chance this is wrong, in which case a new zone +# Asia/Severo-Kurilsk would become necessary. +# +# Srednekolymsk and Zyryanka are the most populous places amongst these +# districts, but have very similar populations. In fact, Wikipedia currently +# lists them both as having 3528 people, exactly 1668 males and 1860 females +# each! (Yikes!) +# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Srednekolymsky_District&oldid=603435276 +# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Verkhnekolymsky_District&oldid=594378493 +# Assume this is a mistake, albeit an amusing one. +# +# Looking at censuses, the populations of the two municipalities seem to have +# fluctuated recently. Zyryanka was more populous than Srednekolymsk in the +# 1989 and 2002 censuses, but Srednekolymsk was more populous in the most +# recent (2010) census, 3525 to 3170. (See pages 195 and 197 of +# http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol1/pub-01-05.pdf +# in Russian.) In addition, Srednekolymsk appears to be a much older +# settlement and the population of Zyryanka seems to be declining. +# Go with Srednekolymsk. + +Zone Asia/Srednekolymsk 10:14:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 10:00 - +10 1930 Jun 21 + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - +12 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 11:00 - +11 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Asia/Ust-Nera covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: +# 14-22 **** Oymyakonsky District + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Ojmyakonskij [and the Kuril Islands] switched from +# Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): +# It's unlikely that any of the Kuril Islands were involved in such a switch, +# as the South and Middle Kurils have been on UTC+11 (SAKT) with the rest of +# Sakhalin Oblast since at least 2011-09, and the North Kurils have been on +# UTC+12 since at least then, too. + +Zone Asia/Ust-Nera 9:32:54 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - +08 1930 Jun 21 + 9:00 Russia +09/+10 1981 Apr 1 + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 10:00 Russia +10/+11 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - +12 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? + 11:00 - +11 2014 Oct 26 2:00s + 10:00 - +10 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): +# Asia/Kamchatka covers... +# 91 RU-KAM Kamchatka Krai +# +# Note: Effective 2007-07-01, (41) Kamchatka Oblast and (82) Koryak +# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (91, RU-KAM) Kamchatka Krai. + +# The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski or perhaps +# Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but these are too long. +Zone Asia/Kamchatka 10:34:36 - LMT 1922 Nov 10 + 11:00 - +11 1930 Jun 21 + 12:00 Russia +12/+13 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 12:00 Russia +12/+13 2010 Mar 28 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - +12 + + +# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): +# Asia/Anadyr covers... +# 87 RU-CHU Chukotka Autonomous Okrug + +Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 12:00 - +12 1930 Jun 21 + 13:00 Russia +13/+14 1982 Apr 1 0:00s + 12:00 Russia +12/+13 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 12:00 Russia +12/+13 2010 Mar 28 2:00s + 11:00 Russia +11/+12 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - +12 + + +# San Marino +# See Europe/Rome. + +# Serbia +# 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 + 1:00 - CET 1945 May 8 2:00s + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s +# Metod Koželj reports that the legal date of +# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. +# Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Koželj. + 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica # Montenegro +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # North Macedonia +Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia + +# Slovakia +Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava + +# Slovenia +# See Europe/Belgrade. + +# Spain +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-14): +# +# The source for Europe/Madrid before 2013 is: +# Planesas P. La hora oficial en España y sus cambios. +# Anuario del Observatorio Astronómico de Madrid (2013, in Spanish). +# http://astronomia.ign.es/rknowsys-theme/images/webAstro/paginas/documentos/Anuario/lahoraoficialenespana.pdf +# As this source says that historical time in the Canaries is obscure, +# and it does not discuss Ceuta, stick with Shanks for now for that data. +# +# In the 1918 and 1919 fallback transitions in Spain, the clock for +# the hour-longer day officially kept going after midnight, so that +# the repeated instances of that day's 00:00 hour were 24 hours apart, +# with a fallback transition from the second occurrence of 00:59... to +# the next day's 00:00. Our data format cannot represent this +# directly, and instead repeats the first hour of the next day, with a +# fallback transition from the next day's 00:59... to 00:00. + +# From Michael Deckers (2016-12-15): +# The Royal Decree of 1900-07-26 quoted by Planesas, online at +# https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1900/209/A00383-00384.pdf +# says in its article 5 (my translation): +# These dispositions will enter into force beginning with the +# instant at which, according to the time indicated in article 1, +# the 1st day of January of 1901 will begin. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1918 1919 - Oct 6 24:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1919 only - Apr 6 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1924 only - Oct 4 24:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1928 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S +# Republican Spain during the civil war; it controlled Madrid until 1939-03-28. +Rule Spain 1937 only - Jun 16 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1937 only - Oct 2 24:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1938 only - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1938 only - Apr 30 23:00 2:00 M +Rule Spain 1938 only - Oct 2 24:00 1:00 S +# The following rules are for unified Spain again. +# +# Planesas does not say what happened in Madrid between its fall on +# 1939-03-28 and the Nationalist spring-forward transition on +# 1939-04-15. For lack of better info, assume Madrid's clocks did not +# change during that period. +# +# The first rule is commented out, as it is redundant for Republican Spain. +#Rule Spain 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1939 only - Oct 7 24:00s 0 - +Rule Spain 1942 only - May 2 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1942 only - Sep 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1943 1944 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1949 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1949 only - Oct 2 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Apr Sat>=12 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1976 only - Mar 27 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1976 1977 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - +Rule Spain 1977 only - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1978 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Spain 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +# Nationalist Spain during the civil war +#Rule NatSpain 1937 only - May 22 23:00 1:00 S +#Rule NatSpain 1937 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00s 0 - +#Rule NatSpain 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00 1:00 S +# The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978, +# except with "S" letters. +Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - +Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1900 Dec 31 23:38:44 + 0:00 - WET 1918 May 6 23:00 + 0:00 1:00 WEST 1918 Oct 7 23:00 + 0:00 - WET 1924 + 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1929 + 0:00 - WET 1967 # Help zishrink.awk. + 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 + 1:00 - CET 1986 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. + -1:00 - -01 1946 Sep 30 1:00 + 0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s + 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 1:00u + 0:00 EU WE%sT +# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u. +# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. + +# Sweden + +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger: +# +# The law "Svensk författningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: +# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all +# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at +# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the +# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. +# +# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18° 03' 30" +# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the +# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... +# +# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk +# författningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning +# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at +# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English +# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west +# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated +# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time +# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. +# +# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk författningssamling 1916, no 124") states +# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is +# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... +# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". +# +# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish +# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are +# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available +# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type +# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click +# the Sök-button). +# +# (2001-05-13): +# +# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 +# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show +# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some +# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already +# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another +# hour before the event took place. +# +# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. + +# Zone NAME 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 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 1:00 + 1:00 - CET 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Switzerland +# From Howse: +# By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace +# and their performance improved enormously. Communities began to keep +# mean time in preference to apparent time - Geneva from 1780 .... +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +# From Whitman (who writes "Midnight?"): +# Rule Swiss 1940 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S +# Rule Swiss 1940 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - +# From Shanks & Pottenger: +# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - + +# From Alois Treindl (2008-12-17): +# I have researched the DST usage in Switzerland during the 1940ies. +# +# As I wrote in an earlier message, I suspected the current tzdata values +# to be wrong. This is now verified. +# +# I have found copies of the original ruling by the Swiss Federal +# government, in 'Eidgenössische Gesetzessammlung 1941 and 1942' (Swiss +# federal law collection)... +# +# DST began on Monday 5 May 1941, 1:00 am by shifting the clocks to 2:00 am +# DST ended on Monday 6 Oct 1941, 2:00 am by shifting the clocks to 1:00 am. +# +# DST began on Monday, 4 May 1942 at 01:00 am +# DST ended on Monday, 5 Oct 1942 at 02:00 am +# +# There was no DST in 1940, I have checked the law collection carefully. +# It is also indicated by the fact that the 1942 entry in the law +# collection points back to 1941 as a reference, but no reference to any +# other years are made. +# +# Newspaper articles I have read in the archives on 6 May 1941 reported +# about the introduction of DST (Sommerzeit in German) during the previous +# night as an absolute novelty, because this was the first time that such +# a thing had happened in Switzerland. +# +# I have also checked 1916, because one book source (Gabriel, Traité de +# l'heure dans le monde) claims that Switzerland had DST in 1916. This is +# false, no official document could be found. Probably Gabriel got misled +# by references to Germany, which introduced DST in 1916 for the first time. +# +# The tzdata rules for Switzerland must be changed to: +# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Mon>=1 1:00 1:00 S +# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Mon>=1 2:00 0 - +# +# The 1940 rules must be deleted. +# +# One further detail for Switzerland, which is probably out of scope for +# most users of tzdata: The [Europe/Zurich zone] ... +# describes all of Switzerland correctly, with the exception of +# the Canton de Genève (Geneva, Genf). Between 1848 and 1894 Geneva did not +# follow Bern Mean Time but kept its own local mean time. +# To represent this, an extra zone would be needed. +# +# From Alois Treindl (2013-09-11): +# The Federal regulations say +# https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20071096/index.html +# ... the meridian for Bern mean time ... is 7° 26' 22.50". +# Expressed in time, it is 0h29m45.5s. + +# From Pierre-Yves Berger (2013-09-11): +# the "Circulaire du conseil fédéral" (December 11 1893) +# http://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/viewOrigDoc.do?id=10071353 +# clearly states that the [1894-06-01] change should be done at midnight +# but if no one is present after 11 at night, could be postponed until one +# hour before the beginning of service. + +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-11): +# Round BMT to the nearest even second, 0:29:46. +# +# We can find no reliable source for Shanks's assertion that all of Switzerland +# except Geneva switched to Bern Mean Time at 00:00 on 1848-09-12. This book: +# +# Jakob Messerli. Gleichmässig, pünktlich, schnell. Zeiteinteilung und +# Zeitgebrauch in der Schweiz im 19. Jahrhundert. Chronos, Zurich 1995, +# ISBN 3-905311-68-2, OCLC 717570797. +# +# suggests that the transition was more gradual, and that the Swiss did not +# agree about civil time during the transition. The timekeeping it gives the +# most detail for is postal and telegraph time: here, federal legislation (the +# "Bundesgesetz über die Erstellung von elektrischen Telegraphen") passed on +# 1851-11-23, and an official implementation notice was published 1853-07-16 +# (Bundesblatt 1853, Bd. II, S. 859). On p 72 Messerli writes that in +# practice since July 1853 Bernese time was used in "all postal and telegraph +# offices in Switzerland from Geneva to St. Gallen and Basel to Chiasso" +# (Google translation). For now, model this transition as occurring on +# 1853-07-16, though it probably occurred at some other date in Zurich, and +# legal civil time probably changed at still some other transition date. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - 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 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 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Turkey + +# From Alois Treindl (2019-08-12): +# http://www.astrolojidergisi.com/yazsaati.htm has researched the time zone +# history of Turkey, based on newspaper archives and official documents. +# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28): +# That source (Oya Vulaş, "Türkiye'de Yaz Saati Uygulamaları") +# is used for 1940/1972, where it seems more reliable than our other +# sources. + +# From Kıvanç Yazan (2019-08-12): +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14539.pdf#page=24 +# 1973-06-03 01:00 -> 02:00, 1973-11-04 02:00 -> 01:00 +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14829.pdf#page=1 +# 1974-03-31 02:00 -> 03:00, 1974-11-03 02:00 -> 01:00 +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15161.pdf#page=1 +# 1975-03-22 02:00 -> 03:00, 1975-11-02 02:00 -> 01:00 +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15535_1.pdf#page=1 +# 1976-03-21 02:00 -> 03:00, 1976-10-31 02:00 -> 01:00 +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15778.pdf#page=5 +# 1977-04-03 02:00 -> 03:00, 1977-10-16 02:00 -> 01:00, +# 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) +# 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below) +# 1979-04-01 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) +# 1979-10-14 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below) +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16245.pdf#page=17 +# This cancels the previous decision, and repeats it only for 1978. +# 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00, 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 +# (not applied due to standard TZ change below) +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16331.pdf#page=3 +# This decision changes the default longitude for Turkish time zone from 30 +# degrees East to 45 degrees East. This means a standard TZ change, from +2 +# to +3. This is published & applied on 1978-06-29. At that time, Turkey was +# already on summer time (already on 45E). Hence, this new law just meant an +# "continuous summer time". Note that this was reversed in a few years. +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18119_1.pdf#page=1 +# 1983-07-31 02:00 -> 03:00 (note that this jumps TZ to +4) +# 1983-10-02 02:00 -> 01:00 (back to +3) +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18561.pdf (page 1 and 34) +# At this time, Turkey is still on +3 with no spring-forward on early +# 1984. This decision is published on 10/31/1984. Page 1 declares +# the decision of reverting the "default longitude change". So the +# standard time should go back to +3 (30E). And page 34 explains when +# that will happen: 1984-11-01 02:00 -> 01:00. You can think of this +# as "end of continuous summer time, change of standard time zone". +# +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18713.pdf#page=1 +# 1985-04-20 01:00 -> 02:00, 1985-09-28 02:00 -> 01:00 + +# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25): +# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with +# no exceptions. +# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ... +# Here are official papers: +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf#page=2 for 1986 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf#page=4 for 1987 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf#page=15 for 1988 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf#page=6 for 1989 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf#page=1 for 1990 - 1992 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf#page=15 for 1993 - 1995 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf#page=1 for overriding 1994 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf#page=1 for 1996, 1997 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf#page=10 for 1998 - 2000 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001 +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006 +# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-25): +# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for timestamps after 1985. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09): +# Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC +# start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07): +# http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp +# The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...: +# http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm +# I was able to locate the following seemingly official document +# (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006: +# http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm + +# From Gökdeniz Karadağ (2011-03-10): +# According to the articles linked below, Turkey will change into summer +# time zone (GMT+3) on March 28, 2011 at 3:00 a.m. instead of March 27. +# This change is due to a nationwide exam on 27th. +# https://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=70872 +# Turkish: +# https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-bir-gun-ileri-alindi-17230464 + +# From Faruk Pasin (2014-02-14): +# The DST for Turkey has been changed for this year because of the +# Turkish Local election.... +# http://www.sabah.com.tr/Ekonomi/2014/02/12/yaz-saatinde-onemli-degisiklik +# ... so Turkey will move clocks forward one hour on March 31 at 3:00 a.m. +# From Randal L. Schwartz (2014-04-15): +# Having landed on a flight from the states to Istanbul (via AMS) on March 31, +# I can tell you that NOBODY (even the airlines) respected this timezone DST +# change delay. Maybe the word just didn't get out in time. +# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-15): +# The press reported massive confusion, as election officials obeyed the rule +# change but cell phones (and airline baggage systems) did not. See: +# Kostidis M. Eventful elections in Turkey. Balkan News Agency +# http://www.balkaneu.com/eventful-elections-turkey/ 2014-03-30. +# I guess the best we can do is document the official time. + +# From Fatih (2015-09-29): +# It's officially announced now by the Ministry of Energy. +# Turkey delays winter time to 8th of November 04:00 +# http://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-8-kasimda-sona-erecek/362217 +# +# From BBC News (2015-10-25): +# Confused Turks are asking "what's the time?" after automatic clocks defied a +# government decision ... "For the next two weeks #Turkey is on EEST... Erdogan +# Engineered Standard Time," said Twitter user @aysekarahasan. +# http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326 + +# From Burak AYDIN (2016-09-08): +# Turkey will stay in Daylight Saving Time even in winter.... +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/09/20160908-2.pdf +# +# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-07): +# The change is permanent, so this is the new standard time in Turkey. +# It takes effect today, which is not much notice. + +# From Kıvanç Yazan (2017-10-28): +# Turkey will go back to Daylight Saving Time starting 2018-10. +# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2017/10/20171028-5.pdf +# +# From Even Scharning (2017-11-08): +# ... today it was announced that the DST will become "continuous": +# http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/son-dakika-yaz-saati-uygulamasi-surekli-hale-geldi-40637482 +# From Paul Eggert (2017-11-08): +# Although Google Translate misfires on that source, it looks like +# Turkey reversed last month's decision, and so will stay at +03. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Turkey 1924 only - May 13 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1925 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1940 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1941 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1942 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1945 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1946 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1947 1951 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1949 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1951 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S +# DST for 15 months; unusual but we'll let it pass. +Rule Turkey 1962 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1963 only - Oct 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1964 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1964 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1973 only - Jun 3 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1973 1976 - Oct Sun>=31 2:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1974 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1975 only - Mar 22 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1976 only - Mar 21 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1978 only - Jun 29 0:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 - +Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 1:00s 0 - +Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S +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 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 Jun 29 + 3:00 Turkey +03/+04 1984 Nov 1 2:00 + 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 2007 + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 1:00u + 2:00 - EET 2011 Mar 28 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 1:00u + 2:00 - EET 2014 Mar 31 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2015 Oct 25 1:00u + 2:00 1:00 EEST 2015 Nov 8 1:00u + 2:00 EU EE%sT 2016 Sep 7 + 3:00 - +03 +Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. + +# Ukraine +# +# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, +# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): +# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government +# regulations No. 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: +# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday +# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of +# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am" + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-20): +# On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to +# abolish the transfer clock to winter time. +# +# Bill No. 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got +# approval from 266 deputies. +# +# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian) +# http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/ +# +# The Ukrainians will no longer change the clock (in Russian) +# http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14290482.html +# +# Deputies cancelled the winter time (in Russian) +# https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/ +# +# From Philip Pizzey (2011-10-18): +# Today my Ukrainian colleagues have informed me that the +# Ukrainian parliament have decided that they will go to winter +# time this year after all. +# +# From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18): +# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukrainian time zone +# (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar +# to Russia) was reverted today: +# http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995 +# +# Also reported by Alexander Bokovoy (2011-10-18) who also noted: +# The law documents themselves are at +# http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484 + +# From Vladimir in Moscow via Alois Treindl re Kiev time 1991/2 (2014-02-28): +# First in Ukraine they changed Time zone from UTC+3 to UTC+2 with DST: +# 03 25 1990 02:00 -03.00 1 Time Zone 3 with DST +# 07 01 1990 02:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST +# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 18.06.1990, No. 134. +# http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/T001500.html +# +# They did not end DST in September, 1990 (according to the law, +# "summer time" was still in action): +# 09 30 1990 03:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST +# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 21.09.1990, No. 272. +# http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/KP900272.html +# +# Again no change in March, 1991 ("summer time" in action): +# 03 31 1991 02:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST +# +# DST ended in September 1991 ("summer time" ended): +# 09 29 1991 03:00 -02.00 0 Time Zone 2, no DST +# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 25.09.1991, No. 225. +# http://www.uazakon.com/documents/date_21/pg_iwgdoc.htm +# This is an answer. +# +# Since 1992 they had normal DST procedure: +# 03 29 1992 02:00 -02.00 1 DST started +# 09 27 1992 03:00 -02.00 0 DST ended +# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 20.03.1992, No. 139. +# http://www.uazakon.com/documents/date_8u/pg_grcasa.htm + +# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-03): +# As is usual in tzdb, Ukrainian zones use the most common English spellings. +# For example, tzdb uses Europe/Kiev, as "Kiev" is the most common spelling in +# English for Ukraine's capital, even though it is certainly wrong as a +# transliteration of the Ukrainian "Київ". This is similar to tzdb's use of +# Europe/Prague, which is certainly wrong as a transliteration of the Czech +# "Praha". ("Kiev" came from old Slavic via Russian to English, and "Prague" +# came from old Slavic via French to English, so the two cases have something +# in common.) Admittedly English-language spelling of Ukrainian names is +# 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. + +# 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 + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 3:00 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Transcarpathia used CET 1990/1991. +# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Rusyn/Ukrainian pronunciation, but +# "Uzhgorod" is more common in English. +Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct + 1:00 - CET 1940 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1944 Oct 26 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Jun 29 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT +# Zaporozh'ye and eastern Lugansk oblasts observed DST 1990/1991. +# "Zaporizhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but +# "Zaporozh'ye" is more common in English. Use the common English +# spelling, except omit the apostrophe as it is not allowed in +# portable Posix file names. +Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 + 2:20 - +0220 1924 May 2 + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1995 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + +# Vatican City +# See Europe/Rome. + +############################################################################### + +# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from +# the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986. +# The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else. +# +# According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but +# uses the WE DST rules. The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules. +# Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at +# 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST). It also claims that Turkey +# switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time +# and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST) + +# ... +# Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 +# From: Tom Hofmann +# ... +# +# ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when +# most European countries started DST. Before that year, only +# a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according +# to own national rules. In 1981, however, DST started on +# 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following +# years... +# But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions +# than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST +# one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep +# lastSun' in 1981 - I don't know how they handle now. +# +# Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the +# Soviet Union (as far as I know). +# +# Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, +# 4002 Basle, Switzerland +# ... + +# ... +# Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 +# From: Dik T. Winter +# ... +# +# The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. +# After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information +# about DST in Europe. I was able to find all from about 1969. +# +# ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on +# first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September... +# In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that +# the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March. And from 1982 +# the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in +# the Sov[i]et Union. In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch +# dates... +# +# It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g. +# Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST... +# Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not +# all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations +# occurred, though not since 1982 I believe. Another note: it is always +# assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the +# case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours +# in advance of normal time. +# +# ... +# dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland +# ... + +# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): +# ... +# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates). +# Since 1978. Change at midnight. +# ... +# Monaco: has same DST as France. +# ... |