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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 50fe876934..0bd7ed827a 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.83 +# @(#)europe 7.84 # 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 @@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), # which I found in the UCLA library. # +# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf"> +# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition +# </a> (1914-03) +# # Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH), # <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm"> # History of Summer Time @@ -125,7 +129,7 @@ # 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 (1999-01-30): +# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-29): # Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915), # a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society # who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907) @@ -133,14 +137,24 @@ # 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. -# One-hour Summer Time was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. -# See: -# <a href="http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/05/18/x-timcrtcrt01011.html"> -# Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18) -# </a> -# A monument was erected in 1927 to Willett, in an open space in a 45-acre wood -# near Chiselhurst, Kent that was purchased by popular subscription and open -# to the public. +# 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 Chiselhurst, 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 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 href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm"> +# "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly +# </a> # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving'' @@ -1323,7 +1337,7 @@ Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:24 - LMT 1880 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 + 2:00 - EET 2001 Jan 2 2:00 EU EE%sT # Liechtenstein @@ -1750,8 +1764,10 @@ Rule Port 1980 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Port 1983 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Shanks says that the transition from LMT to WET occurred 1911-05-24; +# Willett says 1912-01-01. Go with Willett. Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884 - -0:36:32 - LMT 1911 May 24 # Lisbon Mean Time + -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 # Lisbon Mean Time 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 |