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diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 0f2398f677..5e920e8366 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# %W% +# @(#)europe 7.54 # 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 @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ # 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 Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-01-12): +# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19): # The following list attempts to show the complete history of Summer Time # legislation in the United Kingdom, and has quite a bit to say about # the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as well. @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ # seen it I don't know if it used Greenwich mean time, some other definition, # or just said that Isle of Man time would be the same as in Great Britain. # -# - The Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 62) (???) +# - The Isle of Man (War Legislation) Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 62) # # Gives the power, by Order in Council, to extend wartime legislation # to the Isle of Man. @@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ # # The matching Isle of Man Order for 1918 with the same dates and times. # +# - The Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918 +# (8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 59) +# +# This gave power to specify a legal end date for the war just ended, +# which would affect things like the Summer Time Act, 1916, which applied +# only in wartime. This date was to be close to the date of formal +# ratification of the treaty or treaties of peace. +# # - S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297 # # An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 giving dates @@ -285,12 +293,12 @@ # Monday 25 October (the time remaining 02:00 GMT). The 1989 Green # Paper (Cm 722) says this was done because of a coal strike. # -# - The War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 5) (???) +# - The War Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 (10 Geo. 5. c. 5) # # This extends the power to make Orders under the Summer Time Act, 1916 # for a period of 12 months after the termination of the war. -# I haven't seen this one so I don't know when it came into force, or -# when the law deemed the termination of the war to have been. +# Came into force on 31 March 1920. Although the war had been over for more +# than 12 months by then the legal end date had not yet been set. # # - S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363 # @@ -302,11 +310,16 @@ # # The matching Isle of Man Order for 1921 with the same dates and times. # -# - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 (???) +# - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 # -# This probably defines Summer Time for 1922 as the Summer Time Act, 1922 -# was passed after the start date. Dates from Cm 722: -# 1922: 26 March to 8 October +# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1916 and the War +# Emergency Laws (Continuance) Act, 1920 giving dates for Summer Time +# in 1921 of Sunday 26 March to Sunday 8 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# It also mentions the arrangements for defining the legal end date +# for the late war. An Order was made on 10 August 1921, under the +# Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918, setting +# a date of 31 August 1921. This means the powers of the Summer Time +# Act, 1916 would finally expire on 31 August 1922. # # - S.R.&O. 1922, No. 290 (???) # @@ -327,7 +340,7 @@ # dated 13 October 1922. It revokes (among other things) the Order extending # the Summer Time Act, 1916 to the Isle of Man. # -# - The Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 37) (jsm) +# - The Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 37) # # This extended the Summer Time Act, 1922 (among other things) until # 31 December 1924. @@ -359,15 +372,16 @@ # These were made under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939. # They change the end date to be the day after the third Saturday in November. # -# - S.R.&O. 1940, No. 1883 +# - S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 # # An Order in Council amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. +# It changed the start date to the day after the fourth Saturday in February +# (ie. 25 Feb 1940). +# +# - S.R.&O. 1940, No. 1883 +# +# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. # This continues summer time throughout the year after it starts in 1940. -# There was another Order (S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172) that I assume had merely -# changed the dates, to start on 4 February, and was then superseded by this -# one. I haven't seen No. 172 so I don't know what end date it would have -# specified. The dates from Cm 722: -# 1940: Summer Time starts on 4 February # # - S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476 # @@ -385,15 +399,20 @@ # # - S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932 # -# This changed the end date of Double Summer Time to 17 September 1944. -# (I don't have the text of this, just a note of what it did, the text almost -# certainly had the `day after the nth Saturday' form.) +# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. +# This changed the end date of Double Summer Time to the day after the +# third Saturday in September (ie. 17 September 1944). +# +# - S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 # -# - S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 (???) +# Another Order amending the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. +# This changes the start and end dates of Double Summer Time to the +# day after the first Sunday in April and the day after the second Saturday +# in July (ie. Mon 2 April to Sun 15 July). # -# Probably defines the dates of Double Summer Time in 1945. -# I do have this quote from Hansard (the official record of the United Kingdom -# Parliament), Oral Answers, 1 March 1945, cols 1559--60: +# I have this quote from Hansard (the official record of the United Kingdom +# Parliament), Oral Answers, 1 March 1945, cols 1559--60, explaining the +# unusual start on a Monday: # # `58. Major Sir Goronwy Owen asked the Secretary of State for the Home # Department if he is now able to state the Government's proposals @@ -410,15 +429,13 @@ # Sunday, but in the night of Sunday-Monday so that it will operate from # Monday, 2nd April.' # -# Cm 722 gives dates of: -# 1945: Double Summer time: 2 April to 15 July -# 1945: Summer Time ends on 7 October -# # - S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208 # # An Order under the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940 revoking # a long list of things, including the Defence (Summer Time) Regulations, 1939. # This meant that Summer Time reverted to being set by the 1922 and 1925 Acts. +# It was made on 28 September, early enough to end Summer Time on the +# date defined by the 1925 Act: 7 October. # # - The Summer Time Act, 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 16) # @@ -431,21 +448,36 @@ # both to vary the dates and to continue Double Summer Time. It applied # to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. # -# - Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) (???) -# - Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) (???) -# - Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) (???) -# - Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) (???) -# - Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) (???) -# -# These presumably give the dates of Summer Time for the relevent years. -# There was no Double Summer Time. The dates given in the 1989 Green Paper -# for these years are: -# 1948: 14 March to 31 October -# 1949: 3 April to 30 October -# 1950: 16 April to 22 October -# 1951: 15 April to 21 October -# 1952: 20 April to 26 October -# After 1952 things revert back to the 1922 and 1925 Acts. +# - Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) +# +# An Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1948 of +# 14 March and 31 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# +# Although the 1947 Act had legislated for Double Summer Time, this was +# not continued after 1947. +# +# - Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) +# +# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1949 +# of 3 April and 30 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# +# - Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) +# +# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1950 +# of 16 April and 22 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# +# - Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) +# +# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1951 +# of 15 April and 21 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# +# - Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) +# +# Another Order made under the Summer Time Act, 1947. Gave dates for 1952 +# of 20 April and 26 October, both at 02:00 GMT. +# +# This is the last of this run of Orders, so for 1953 things reverted +# to the 1922 and 1925 Acts. # # - The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland), 1954 (1954 c. 33 (N.I.)) (???) # @@ -659,7 +691,9 @@ # 2000: 26 March to 29 October # 2001: 25 March to 28 October # +# <a href="http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si1997/97298201.htm"> # - Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982) +# </a> # # Implements the eighth Directive. Has the same text about the Isle of Man, # Guernsey and Jersey as the 1994 Order. @@ -757,7 +791,7 @@ 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 25 2:00s 1:00 BST +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 @@ -766,9 +800,9 @@ 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 2 1:00s 2:00 BDST +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 only - Jul 15 1:00s 1:00 BST 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 @@ -778,9 +812,10 @@ 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 1949 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 GMT +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) |