1# @(#)europe 7.82
2
3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
6
7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
8# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
9# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
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191# so we use `BDST'.
192
193# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length
194# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
195# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating
196# and extending this list, which can be found in
197# <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">
198# History of legal time in Britain
199#
200
201# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06):
202#
203# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
204# see Lord Tanlaw's speech
205# <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0">
206# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976)
207# </a>.
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744# The military zone near Thule UTC-4
745# Standard Greenland time UTC-3
746# Scoresbysund UTC-1
747# Danmarkshavn UTC
748#
749# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be
750# introduced.
751
752# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
753#
754# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
755# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have
756# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have
757# info from earlier correspondence.]
758#
759# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule
760# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight
761# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time....
762#
763# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund
764# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst.
765# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the
766# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th
767# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in
768# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the
769# DPC research station at Zackenberg.
770#
771# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use
772# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab).
773#
774# The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it
775# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time
776# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules.
777#
778# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and
779# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators
780# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of
781# this area is that it sticks with Godthab time. This area might be
782# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this.
783
784# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19):
785# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place
786# there at 2:00 AM.
787
788# From Paul Eggert (2001-11-19):
789# The 1997 CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; the 1995 map as like Godthab.
790# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996.
791# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error,
792# so go with Shanks for all Thule transitions.
793#
794# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
795Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
796Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
797Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
798Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
799#
800# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
801Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28
802 -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
803 -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996
804 0:00 - GMT
805Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit
806 -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
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848# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do
849# after that.
850
851# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
852# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
853# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
854# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
855
856# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
857# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
858# Now we are using again EU rules.
859#
860# From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28):
861# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.
862
863# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
864Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
865 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
866 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul
867 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May
868 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6
869 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15
870 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22
871 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s
872 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s
873 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22
874 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1
875 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21
876 2:00 EU EE%sT
877
878# Finland
879#
880# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
881# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
882# and it's supposed to change at 4am...
883#
884# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994):
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2
3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
6
7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
8# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
9# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
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191# so we use `BDST'.
192
193# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length
194# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
195# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating
196# and extending this list, which can be found in
197# <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">
198# History of legal time in Britain
199#
200
201# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06):
202#
203# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
204# see Lord Tanlaw's speech
205# <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0">
206# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976)
207# </a>.
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744# The military zone near Thule UTC-4
745# Standard Greenland time UTC-3
746# Scoresbysund UTC-1
747# Danmarkshavn UTC
748#
749# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be
750# introduced.
751
752# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
753#
754# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
755# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have
756# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have
757# info from earlier correspondence.]
758#
759# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule
760# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight
761# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time....
762#
763# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund
764# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst.
765# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the
766# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th
767# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in
768# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the
769# DPC research station at Zackenberg.
770#
771# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use
772# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab).
773#
774# The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it
775# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time
776# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules.
777#
778# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and
779# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators
780# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of
781# this area is that it sticks with Godthab time. This area might be
782# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this.
783
784# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19):
785# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place
786# there at 2:00 AM.
787
788# From Paul Eggert (2001-11-19):
789# The 1997 CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; the 1995 map as like Godthab.
790# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996.
791# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error,
792# so go with Shanks for all Thule transitions.
793#
794# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
795Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
796Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
797Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
798Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
799#
800# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
801Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28
802 -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
803 -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996
804 0:00 - GMT
805Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit
806 -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
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848# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do
849# after that.
850
851# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
852# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
853# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
854# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
855
856# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
857# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
858# Now we are using again EU rules.
859#
860# From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28):
861# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.
862
863# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
864Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
865 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
866 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul
867 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May
868 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6
869 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15
870 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22
871 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s
872 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s
873 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22
874 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1
875 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21
876 2:00 EU EE%sT
877
878# Finland
879#
880# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
881# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
882# and it's supposed to change at 4am...
883#
884# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994):
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