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# is Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
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# Oxford University Press (1980).
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (December 4, 1994),
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04),
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# The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
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# Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
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# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
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# United Kingdom
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# The UK and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar on 1752-09-14.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (July 6, 1994):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
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#
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# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
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# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
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#
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# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
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#
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# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
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# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
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# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
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# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''.
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# From Arthur David Olson (January 19, 1989):
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# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
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#
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# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
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# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
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# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
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# politics making a fortune, not computing.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (September 3, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03):
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#
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# Our Government...couldn't...make a decision after the 1989 consultation
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# exercise about the UK changing its timezone so it just let things drift
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@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
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# an Order in Council (a Statutary Instrument, the SI thing mentioned above)
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# to specify the EC specified dates.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 18, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-18):
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#
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# My contact in the Ministry of Defence Public Relations department
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# accepted the challenge of looking into this and produced the following,
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# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
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# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (September 3, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-09-03):
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#
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# > # Current rules
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# > Rule GB-Eire 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 BST
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# summer time completely, noon is when the Sun is overhead, and that should
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# be the end of it.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 22, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-22):
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#
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# I now have the text of the Summer Time Act 1916, the granddaddy of them all.
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# It is headed: `An Act to provide for the Time in Great Britain and Ireland
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# It also confirms the fact that Ireland followed Dublin time back then,
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# and 25 minutes behind Greenwich, as Shanks has it, would be correct.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 28, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-28):
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#
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# I now have before me, thanks to my learned legal friend Lorna, the text of
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# the Time (Ireland) Act 1916.
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# of the 1880 date in Shanks. The little bit of it that is repealed
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# also refers solely to Ireland and Dublin Mean Time.
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (October 29, 1993):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-10-29):
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#
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# My case is that, with the sole exception of Ireland in 1916 using Dublin
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# Mean Time, Summer Time has been uniform throughout the United Kingdom
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# thereby destroying the authority of the Summer Time Order specifying
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# summer time in 1968....
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (November 18, 1993)
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1993-11-18)
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#
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# Here is a revised version of my tabrules file for the perl script I sent
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# before. I have personally verified the various Orders back to 1953 and
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# 1993 28 Mar 24 Oct fixed
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# 1994 27 Mar 23 Oct fixed
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (August 18, 1994):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-08-18):
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# I now have the text of the 7th EC directive on summer time arrangements
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# (94/21/EC), which was approved on 30 May....
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# The major changes from existing practice are that 1995 will be the last year
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# by the Commission by 1 Jan 96. They have not yet appeared (I asked just
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# before Easter).
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (March 28, 1994):
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# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-03-28):
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# The [GB-Eire] end date of 22 October [1995] conflicts with your current rule
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# of Oct Sun>=23, and the historical UK formula of Sun after 4th Sat.
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# The last time 4th Sun and Sun after 4th Sat differed was in 1989,
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@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S
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Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 -
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S
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# Shanks gives 1921 Mar 21 for the following transition.
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# From Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su> (November 12, 1993):
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# From Andrew A. Chernov <ache@astral.msk.su> (1993-11-12):
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# My sources says, that it is Mar 20, not 21.
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 DS
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Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
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@ -1284,10 +1284,10 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct
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# Iceland
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#
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# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (November 6, 1993):
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# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06):
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# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
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#
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# (December 5, 1993):
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# (1993-12-05):
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# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of
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# Iceland Almanak.
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#
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# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always
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# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
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#
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# (December 10, 1993):
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# (1993-12-10):
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# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the
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# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus
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# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question.
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# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
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# might mean something else (???).
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#
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (December 9, 1993):
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-12-09):
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# The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points.
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# We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that
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# Reykavik was -1:28 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that.
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@ -1701,7 +1701,7 @@ Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884
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0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00
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1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00
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0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s
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# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (November 12, 1992):
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# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12):
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# Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone
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# (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC.
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0:00 EU WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s
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5:00 1:00 OMSST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
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5:00 - OMST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
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6:00 Russia OMS%sT
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# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (June 29, 1994):
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# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29):
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# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
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# I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
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# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
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2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
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3:00 Russia MOS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
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2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (May 28, 1994):
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# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-05-28):
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# Today's _Economist_ (p 45) reports that Crimea switched
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# from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January elections.
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# For now, we'll guess that there was a 2-hour leap forward on March 27.
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# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl
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# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax
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# From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
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# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
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# ...
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# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates).
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# Since 1978. Change at midnight.
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