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-# @(#)europe 7.64
+# @(#)europe 7.65
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -723,6 +723,23 @@
# clear whether the islands were using GMT or local time then. The
# changes in Alderney and Guernsey were at the same 2am GMT time as
# for Great Britain; the order for Jersey is more interesting.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-06):
+# Mark Brader kindly translated the 1916 Jersey order from the French.
+# It says that the 1916 transitions were 05-20 and 09-30 at midnight.
+# Presumably this was 24:00, two hours earlier than Great Britain.
+# It also says that after 1916 they'll sync with Great Britain.
+
+# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-28):
+# I have the 1918 orders for Guernsey, Alderney (both changing on same
+# dates as UK, 2am GMT) and Sark (same dates; start and end at 2am,
+# start "temps de Greenwich" (not specified as "temps moyen de
+# Greenwich" which was used in the other orders) and end in an
+# unspecified zone). For Jersey the same file (Public Record Office: HO
+# 45/10892/357138) includes letters to the effect that in 1918 and 1919
+# the States of Jersey agreed the same start and end dates as the UK
+# (times unspecified, and it was the 1916 Jersey order that specified
+# change at midnight of an unspecified zone).
# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06):
#
@@ -1304,6 +1321,15 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik
# for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg"
# (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time).
+# From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (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.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
@@ -1315,7 +1341,8 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
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
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000
+ 2:00 - EET
# Finland
#
@@ -1715,6 +1742,24 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Lithuania
+
+# 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 <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
+# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
+# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+
+# From <a href="http://www.elta.lt/">ELTA</a> No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29),
+# 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.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time
@@ -1728,14 +1773,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
2:00 1:00 EEST 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
-# 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 <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
-# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
-# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
# Luxembourg
# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.