1# $OpenBSD: europe,v 1.94 2025/01/19 22:03:27 millert Exp $ 2# tzdb data for Europe and environs 3 4# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 5# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 6 7# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 8# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 9# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 10# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 11 12# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 13# 14# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 15# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 16# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 17# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 18# 19# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 20# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 21# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 22# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 23# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 24# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 30# entries through 1991, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 31# 32# Other sources occasionally used include: 33# 34# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 35# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 36# which I found in the UCLA library. 37# 38# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 39# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 40# [PDF] (1914-03) 41# 42# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 43# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. He writes: 44# "It is requested that corrections and additions to these tables 45# may be sent to Mr. John Milne, Royal Geographical Society, 46# Savile Row, London." Nowadays please email them to tz@iana.org. 47# 48# Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919. 49# This Russian-language source was consulted by Vladimir Karpinsky; see 50# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-August/021320.html 51# The full Russian citation is: 52# Бялокоз, Евгений Людвигович. Новый счет времени в течении суток 53# введенный декретом Совета народных комиссаров для всей России с 1-го 54# июля 1919 г. / Изд. 2-е Междуведомственной комиссии. - Петроград: 55# Десятая гос. тип., 1919. 56# http://resolver.gpntb.ru/purl?docushare/dsweb/Get/Resource-2011/Byalokoz__E.L.__Novyy__schet__vremeni__v__techenie__sutok__izd__2(1).pdf 57# 58# Brazil's Divisão Serviço da Hora (DSHO), 59# History of Summer Time 60# <http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm> 61# (1998-09-21, in Portuguese) 62# 63# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table; 64# the rest are variants of the "xMT" pattern for a city's mean time, 65# or are from other sources. Corrections are welcome! 66# std dst 2dst 67# LMT Local Mean Time 68# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic 69# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer 70# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer 71# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe 72# 1:00 BST British Standard (1968-1971) 73# 1:00 IST GMT Irish Standard (1968-) with winter DST 74# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe 75# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899) 76# 1:36:34 RMT* LST* Riga, Latvian Summer (1880-1926)* 77# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe 78# 3:00 MSK MSD MDST* Moscow 79 80# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), re EEC/EC/EU members: 81# The original six: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, 82# Luxembourg, the Netherlands. 83# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. 84# Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece. 85# Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal. 86# Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for 87# entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8% 88# on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous 89# referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice. 90# Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.) 91# ... 92# Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT. 93# I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards. 94# ... 95# There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules]. 96# A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact 97# national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the 98# different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed 99# in the Directive. 100 101 102############################################################################### 103 104# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) 105 106# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): 107# 108# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about 109# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo 110# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph 111# of the text said: 112# 113# 'An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands 114# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude 115# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed 116# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They 117# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament, 118# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking 119# along the towpath within a few yards of it.' 120# 121# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's 122# position is 51° 28' 30" N, 0° 18' 45" W. The longitude should 123# be within about ±2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761. 124# 125# [This yields STDOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] 126 127# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): 128# 129# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. 130# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, 131# and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country. 132# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) 133# and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903). 134# The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway 135# in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most 136# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847-09-22 the 137# Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be 138# adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it. 139# The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian, 140# and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many 141# railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public 142# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock 143# on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands, 144# one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal 145# system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading 146# to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13. 147# The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition 148# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02. 149# 150# In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single 151# transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much 152# about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time. 153 154# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-19): 155# The ancients had no need for daylight saving, as they kept time 156# informally or via hours whose length depended on the time of year. 157# Daylight saving time in its modern sense was invented by the 158# New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson (1867-1946), 159# whose day job as a postal clerk led him to value 160# after-hours daylight in which to pursue his research. 161# In 1895 he presented a paper to the Wellington Philosophical Society 162# that proposed a two-hour daylight-saving shift. See: 163# Hudson GV. On seasonal time-adjustment in countries south of lat. 30°. 164# Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 1895;28:734 165# http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_28/rsnz_28_00_006110.html 166# Although some interest was expressed in New Zealand, his proposal 167# did not find its way into law and eventually it was almost forgotten. 168# 169# In England, DST was independently reinvented by William Willett (1857-1915), 170# a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society 171# who circulated a pamphlet "The Waste of Daylight" (1907) 172# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April, 173# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September. 174# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times, 175# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests. 176# Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and 177# it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916. 178# See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18). 179# A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in 180# a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular 181# subscription and open to the public. On the south face of the monolith, 182# designed by G. W. Miller, is the William Willett Memorial Sundial, 183# which is permanently set to Summer Time. 184 185# From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28): 186# It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of 187# summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country 188# between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which 189# plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the 190# foundations of civilization throughout the world. 191# -- "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly; 192# republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26 193# https://www.winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-114/a-silent-toast-to-william-willett-by-winston-s-churchill 194 195# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08): 196# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving" 197# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this 198# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the 199# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer". 200# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see: 201# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press 202# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8. 203 204# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): 205# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's 206# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. 207 208# Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) 209# From: Jonathan Leffler 210# [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. 211# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in 212# politics making a fortune, not computing. 213 214# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): 215# I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the 216# acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published 217# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and 218# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T." 219 220# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02): 221# ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the 222# main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) 223# agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). 224 225# From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03): 226# On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir 227# Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any 228# official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't 229# but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British 230# Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally. 231# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/bbc-19410418.png 232# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ho-19410421.png 233 234# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21): 235# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time 236# which is to be introduced in May.... 237# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time" 238# which could not be said to run counter to any official description. 239 240# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 241# Howse writes (p 157) 'DBST' too, but 'BDST' seems to have been common 242# and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, 243# so we use 'BDST'. 244 245# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length 246# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. 247# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating 248# and extending this list, which can be found in 249# https://www.polyomino.org.uk/british-time/ 250 251# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): 252# 253# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; 254# see Lord Tanlaw's speech 255# https://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199798/ldhansrd/vo970611/text/70611-10.htm#70611-10_head0 256# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976). 257 258# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 259# 260# For lack of other data, follow Shanks & Pottenger for Eire in 1940-1948. 261# 262# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks & Pottenger 263# are incorrect: 264# * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until 265# 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain. 266# Actually, Wales was identical after 1880. 267# * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1. 268# It actually just had one transition. 269# * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II. 270# Actually, it conformed to Britain. 271# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18. 272# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time. 273# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change). 274# 275# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks & Pottenger: 276# * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT 277# to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to 278# conform with Great Britain. 279# S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise. 280# 281# The following claim by Shanks & Pottenger is possible though doubtful; 282# we'll ignore it for now. 283# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00. 284 285# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-04): 286# 287# Dunsink Observatory (8 km NW of Dublin's center) was to Dublin as 288# Greenwich was to London. For example: 289# 290# "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." 291# -- James Joyce, Ulysses 292# 293# The abbreviation DMT stood for "Dublin Mean Time" or "Dunsink Mean Time"; 294# this being Ireland, opinions differed. 295# 296# Whitman says Dublin/Dunsink Mean Time was UT-00:25:21, which agrees 297# with measurements of recent visitors to the Meridian Room of Dunsink 298# Observatory; see Malone D. Dunsink and timekeeping. 2016-01-24. 299# <https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwmalone/time/dunsink.html>. Malone 300# writes that the Nautical Almanac listed UT-00:25:22 until 1896, when 301# it moved to UT-00:25:21.1 (I confirmed that the 1893 edition used 302# the former and the 1896 edition used the latter). Evidently the 303# news of this change propagated slowly, as Milne 1899 still lists 304# UT-00:25:22 and cites the International Telegraph Bureau. As it is 305# not clear that there was any practical significance to the change 306# from UT-00:25:22 to UT-00:25:21.1 in civil timekeeping, omit this 307# transition for now and just use the latter value. 308 309# "Countess Markievicz ... claimed that the [1916] abolition of Dublin Mean Time 310# was among various actions undertaken by the 'English' government that 311# would 'put the whole country into the SF (Sinn Féin) camp'. She claimed 312# Irish 'public feeling (was) outraged by forcing of English time on us'." 313# -- Parsons M. Dublin lost its time zone - and 25 minutes - after 1916 Rising. 314# Irish Times 2014-10-27. 315# https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-lost-its-time-zone-and-25-minutes-after-1916-rising-1.1977411 316 317# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): 318# Irish laws are available online at <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie>. 319# These include various relating to legal time, for example: 320# 321# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html 322# 323# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html 324# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html 325# 326# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html 327# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html 328# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html 329# 330# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html 331# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html 332# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html 333# 334# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is 335# <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA13Y1923.html>.] 336# 337# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these 338# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover 339# the laws applicable in Ireland.) 340# 341# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined 342# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it 343# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time 344# being GMT+1.) 345 346# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): 347# Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31) 348# reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time 349# (CT), equivalent to French civil time. 350# Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that 351# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door) 352# and Frethun run in CT. 353# My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities, 354# the French concession operators and the British civil authorities, 355# and that the time depends on who you're talking to. 356# If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason, 357# I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST. 358# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST. 359 360# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02): 361# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94, 362# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive No. 94/21/EC. 363# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate 364# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of 365# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is 366# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST". 367# 368# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-07): 369# The 1996 anonymous contributor's goal was to determine the correct 370# abbreviation for summer time in Dublin and so the contributor 371# focused on the "IST", not on the "Irish Summer Time". Though the 372# "IST" was correct, the "Irish Summer Time" appears to have been an 373# error, as Ireland's Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 states that 374# standard time in Ireland remains at UT +01 and is observed in 375# summer, and that Greenwich mean time is observed in winter. (Thanks 376# to Derick Rethans for pointing out the error.) That is, when 377# Ireland amended the 1968 act that established UT +01 as Irish 378# Standard Time, it left standard time unchanged and established GMT 379# as a negative daylight saving time in winter. So, in this database 380# IST stands for Irish Summer Time for timestamps before 1968, and for 381# Irish Standard Time after that. See: 382# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1971/act/17/enacted/en/print 383 384# Michael Deckers (2017-06-01) gave the following URLs for Ireland's 385# Summer Time Act, 1925 and Summer Time Orders, 1926 and 1947: 386# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1925/act/8/enacted/en/print 387# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1926/sro/919/made/en/print 388# http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1947/sro/71/made/en/print 389 390# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 391# Summer Time Act, 1916 392Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST 393Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 GMT 394# S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358 395Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 BST 396Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 GMT 397# S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274 398Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Mar 24 2:00s 1:00 BST 399Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 GMT 400# S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297 401Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 BST 402Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Sep 29 2:00s 0 GMT 403# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458 404Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 BST 405# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844 406Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Oct 25 2:00s 0 GMT 407# S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363 408Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST 409Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT 410# S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264 411Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST 412Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT 413# The Summer Time Act, 1922 414Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 415Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT 416Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 417Rule GB-Eire 1925 1926 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 418# The Summer Time Act, 1925 419Rule GB-Eire 1925 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT 420Rule GB-Eire 1927 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 421Rule GB-Eire 1928 1929 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 422Rule GB-Eire 1930 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 423Rule GB-Eire 1931 1932 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 424Rule GB-Eire 1933 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 425Rule GB-Eire 1934 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 426Rule GB-Eire 1935 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 427Rule GB-Eire 1936 1937 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 428Rule GB-Eire 1938 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 429Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 430# S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379 431Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Nov Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT 432# S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883 433Rule GB-Eire 1940 only - Feb Sun>=23 2:00s 1:00 BST 434# S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476 435Rule GB-Eire 1941 only - May Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST 436Rule GB-Eire 1941 1943 - Aug Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST 437# S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506 438Rule GB-Eire 1942 1944 - Apr Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST 439# S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932 440Rule GB-Eire 1944 only - Sep Sun>=16 1:00s 1:00 BST 441# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312 442Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Apr Mon>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST 443Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Jul Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST 444# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208 445Rule GB-Eire 1945 1946 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT 446Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 447# The Summer Time Act, 1947 448Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Mar 16 2:00s 1:00 BST 449Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Apr 13 1:00s 2:00 BDST 450Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Aug 10 1:00s 1:00 BST 451Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 GMT 452# Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495) 453Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00s 1:00 BST 454Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Oct 31 2:00s 0 GMT 455# Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373) 456Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST 457Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Oct 30 2:00s 0 GMT 458# Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518) 459# Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430) 460# Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451) 461Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Apr Sun>=14 2:00s 1:00 BST 462Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00s 0 GMT 463# revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925 464Rule GB-Eire 1953 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 465Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT 466Rule GB-Eire 1954 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 467Rule GB-Eire 1955 1956 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 468Rule GB-Eire 1957 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 469Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 470Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST 471# Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71) 472# Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465) 473# Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81) 474Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST 475Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT 476# Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101) 477# Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201) 478# Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148) 479Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST 480# Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117) 481Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST 482# The British Standard Time Act, 1968 483# (no summer time) 484# The Summer Time Act, 1972 485Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST 486Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT 487# Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089) 488# Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673) 489# Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223) 490# Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931) 491Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST 492Rule GB-Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u 0 GMT 493# Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985) 494# Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729) 495# Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798) 496Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT 497# Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982) 498# See EU for rules starting in 1996. 499# 500 501# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 502Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 503 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 504 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 505 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 506 0:00 EU GMT/BST 507# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 508Zone Europe/Jersey -0:08:26 - LMT 1898 Jun 11 16:00u 509 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1940 Jul 2 510 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 511 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 512 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 513 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 514 0:00 EU GMT/BST 515 516# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 517Zone Europe/Guernsey -0:10:09 - LMT 1913 Jun 18 518 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1940 Jul 2 519 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 520 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 521 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 522 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 523 0:00 EU GMT/BST 524 525# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 526Zone Europe/Isle_of_Man -0:17:55 - LMT 1883 Mar 30 0:00s 527 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 528 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 529 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 530 0:00 EU GMT/BST 531 532# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-15): 533# In January 2018 we discovered that the negative SAVE values in the 534# Eire rules cause problems with tests for ICU: 535# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-January/025825.html 536# and with tests for OpenJDK: 537# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-January/025822.html 538# 539# To work around this problem, the build procedure can translate the 540# following data into two forms, one with negative SAVE values and the 541# other form with a traditional approximation for Irish timestamps 542# after 1971-10-31 02:00 UTC; although this approximation has tm_isdst 543# flags that are reversed, its UTC offsets are correct and this often 544# suffices.... 545# 546# The following is like GB-Eire and EU, except with standard time in 547# summer and negative daylight saving time in winter. It is for when 548# negative SAVE values are used. 549# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 550Rule Eire 1971 only - Oct 31 2:00u -1:00 - 551Rule Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00u 0 - 552Rule Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00u -1:00 - 553Rule Eire 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 0 - 554Rule Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u -1:00 - 555Rule Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u -1:00 - 556Rule Eire 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u -1:00 - 557 558# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 559 #STDOFF -0:25:21.1 560Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:21 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 561 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00s 562 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s 563 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence 564 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00s 565 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00s 566 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00s 567 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00s 568 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00s 569 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27 570# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST. 571 1:00 Eire IST/GMT 572# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking negative DST; see ziguard.awk. 573# 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 574# 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996 575# 0:00 EU GMT/IST 576# End of rearguard section. 577 578 579############################################################################### 580 581# Europe 582 583# The following rules are for the European Union and for its 584# predecessor organization, the European Communities. 585# For brevity they are called "EU rules" elsewhere in this file. 586 587# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 588Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S 589Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 590Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 - 591Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 592Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 593Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 594# The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See: 595# Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 596# of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements. 597# http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT 598 599# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time. 600Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S 601Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 602Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 - 603Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 604Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S 605Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - 606 607# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables. 608# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time. 609Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S 610Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 611Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 612Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - 613Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S 614Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - 615Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S 616Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - 617Rule C-Eur 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 618# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 619Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 - 620# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-07-13): 621# 622# I found what is probably a typo of 2:00 which should perhaps be 2:00s 623# in the C-Eur rule from tz database version 2008d (this part was 624# corrected in version 2008d). The circumstantial evidence is simply the 625# tz database itself, as seen below: 626# 627# Zone Europe/Paris ... 628# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 629# 630# Zone Europe/Monaco ... 631# 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 632# 633# Zone Europe/Belgrade ... 634# 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 635# 636# Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - 637# Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 638# Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 639# 640# The rule line to be changed is: 641# 642# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 - 643# 644# It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on 645# 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no 646# countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items 647# affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translate acronyms 648# CET and MET: 649# 650# Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 651# Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT 652# 653# It this is right then the corrected version would look like: 654# 655# Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 656# 657# A small step for mankind though 8-) 658Rule C-Eur 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 659Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 660Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 661Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 662Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 663Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 664Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 665 666# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time. 667Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 668Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 669Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 670Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 671Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 672Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 673 674 675# Daylight saving time for Russia and the Soviet Union 676# 677# The 1917-1921 decree URLs are from Alexander Belopolsky (2016-08-23). 678 679# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 680Rule Russia 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 MST # Moscow Summer Time 681# 682# Decree No. 142 (1917-12-22) http://istmat.info/node/28137 683Rule Russia 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 MMT # Moscow Mean Time 684# 685# Decree No. 497 (1918-05-30) http://istmat.info/node/30001 686Rule Russia 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time 687Rule Russia 1918 only - Sep 16 1:00 1:00 MST 688# 689# Decree No. 258 (1919-05-29) http://istmat.info/node/37949 690Rule Russia 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 MDST 691# 692Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 0:00u 1:00 MSD 693Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 MSK 694# 695# Decree No. 63 (1921-02-03) http://istmat.info/node/45840 696Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 MSD 697# 698# Decree No. 121 (1921-03-07) http://istmat.info/node/45949 699Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 +05 700# 701Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 MSD 702Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 703# Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24): 704Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 705Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 706# Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in 707# Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14): 708Rule Russia 1984 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 709Rule Russia 1985 2010 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 710# 711Rule Russia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 712# As described below, Russia's 2014 change affects Zone data, not Rule data. 713 714# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): 715# Wikipedia and other sources refer to the Act of the Council of 716# Ministers of the USSR from 1988-01-04 No. 5 and the Act of the 717# Council of Ministers of the USSR from 1989-03-14 No. 227. 718# 719# I did not find full texts of these acts. For the 1989 one we have 720# title at https://base.garant.ru/70754136/ : 721# "About change in calculation of time on the territories of 722# Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR and Estonian SSR, Astrakhan, 723# Kaliningrad, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk and Uralsk oblasts". 724# And http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt appears to 725# contain quotes from both acts: Since last Sunday of March 1988 rules 726# of the second time belt are installed in Volgograd and Saratov 727# oblasts. Since last Sunday of March 1989: 728# a) Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, Estonian SSR, Kaliningrad oblast: 729# second time belt rules without extra hour (Moscow-1); 730# b) Astrakhan, Kirov, Kuybyshev, Ulyanovsk oblasts: second time belt 731# rules (Moscow time) 732# c) Uralsk oblast: third time belt rules (Moscow+1). 733 734# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-27): 735# Unamended version of the act of the 736# Government of the Russian Federation No. 23 from 08.01.1992 737# http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102014034&rdk=0 738# says that every year clocks were to be moved forward on last Sunday 739# of March at 2 hours and moved backwards on last Sunday of September 740# at 3 hours. It was amended in 1996 to replace September with October. 741 742# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-06-14): 743# According to Kremlin press service, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev 744# signed a federal law "On calculation of time" on June 9, 2011. 745# According to the law Russia is abolishing daylight saving time. 746# 747# Medvedev signed a law "On the Calculation of Time" (in russian): 748# http://bmockbe.ru/events/?ID=7583 749# 750# Medvedev signed a law on the calculation of the time (in russian): 751# https://www.regnum.ru/news/polit/1413906.html 752 753# From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15): 754# Take "abolishing daylight saving time" to mean that time is now considered 755# to be standard. 756 757# Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST 758# for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. 759 760# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): 761# The official German names ... are 762# 763# Mitteleuropäische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 764# Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit (MESZ) = UTC+02:00 765# 766# as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz über die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG), 767# 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111).... 768# I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution 769# 770# Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) 771# Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit" 772# Postfach 3345 773# D-38023 Braunschweig 774# phone: +49 531 592-0 775# 776# ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB 777# department for time and frequency transmission. He explained that the 778# PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as 779# 780# Central European Time (CET) = UTC+01:00 781# Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00 782 783 784# Albania 785# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 786Rule Albania 1940 only - Jun 16 0:00 1:00 S 787Rule Albania 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - 788Rule Albania 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S 789Rule Albania 1943 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 - 790Rule Albania 1974 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S 791Rule Albania 1974 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 792Rule Albania 1975 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 793Rule Albania 1975 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 794Rule Albania 1976 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S 795Rule Albania 1976 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 796Rule Albania 1977 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 797Rule Albania 1977 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 798Rule Albania 1978 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S 799Rule Albania 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 800Rule Albania 1979 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 S 801Rule Albania 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 802Rule Albania 1980 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S 803Rule Albania 1980 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 804Rule Albania 1981 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 S 805Rule Albania 1981 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 806Rule Albania 1982 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S 807Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 808Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S 809Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 810Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 811# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 812Zone Europe/Tirane 1:19:20 - LMT 1914 813 1:00 - CET 1940 Jun 16 814 1:00 Albania CE%sT 1984 Jul 815 1:00 EU CE%sT 816 817# Andorra 818# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 819Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901 820 0:00 - WET 1946 Sep 30 821 1:00 - CET 1985 Mar 31 2:00 822 1:00 EU CE%sT 823 824# Austria 825 826# Milne says Vienna time was 1:05:21. 827 828# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and 829# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and 830# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" 831# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition 832# Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, 833# and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12. 834 835# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-22): 836# In 1946 the end of DST was on Monday, 7 October 1946, at 3:00 am. 837# Shanks had this right. Source: Die Weltpresse, 5. Oktober 1946, page 5. 838 839# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 840Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S 841Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 - 842Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S 843Rule Austria 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - 844Rule Austria 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 845Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S 846Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S 847Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S 848Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - 849# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 850Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:21 - LMT 1893 Apr 851 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 852 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s 853 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s 854 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s 855 1:00 - CET 1946 856 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981 857 1:00 EU CE%sT 858 859# Belarus 860# 861# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-07-02): 862# http://www.lawbelarus.com/repub/sub30/texf9611.htm 863# (Act of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus from 864# 1992-03-25 No. 157) ... says clocks were to be moved forward at 2:00 865# on last Sunday of March and backward at 3:00 on last Sunday of September 866# (the same as previous USSR and contemporary Russian regulations). 867# 868# From Yauhen Kharuzhy (2011-09-16): 869# By latest Belarus government act Europe/Minsk timezone was changed to 870# GMT+3 without DST (was GMT+2 with DST). 871# 872# Sources (Russian language): 873# http://www.belta.by/ru/all_news/society/V-Belarusi-otmenjaetsja-perexod-na-sezonnoe-vremja_i_572952.html 874# http://naviny.by/rubrics/society/2011/09/16/ic_articles_116_175144/ 875# https://news.tut.by/society/250578.html 876# 877# From Alexander Bokovoy (2014-10-09): 878# Belarussian government decided against changing to winter time.... 879# http://eng.belta.by/all_news/society/Belarus-decides-against-adjusting-time-in-Russias-wake_i_76335.html 880# 881# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 882Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 883 1:50 - MMT 1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time 884 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 885 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 28 886 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3 887 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 888 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 889 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 890 3:00 - %z 891 892# Belgium 893# 894# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-25): 895# The exposition in the web page 896# https://www.bestor.be/wiki/index.php/Voyager_dans_le_temps._L%E2%80%99introduction_de_la_norme_de_Greenwich_en_Belgique 897# gives several contemporary sources from which one can conclude that 898# the switch in Europe/Brussels on 1892-05-01 was from 00:17:30 to 00:00:00. 899# 900# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28): 901# This quote helps explain the late-1914 situation: 902# In early November 1914, the Germans imposed the time zone used in central 903# Europe and forced the inhabitants to set their watches and public clocks 904# sixty minutes ahead. Many were reluctant to accept "German time" and 905# continued to use "Belgian time" among themselves. Reflecting the spirit of 906# resistance that arose in the population, a song made fun of this change.... 907# The song ended: 908# Putting your clock forward 909# Will but hasten the happy hour 910# When we kick out the Boches! 911# See: Pluvinage G. Brussels on German time. Cahiers Bruxellois - 912# Brusselse Cahiers. 2014;XLVI(1E):15-38. 913# https://www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-bruxellois-2014-1E-page-15.htm 914# 915# Entries from 1914 through 1917 are taken from "De tijd in België" 916# <https://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html>. 917# Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from: 918# Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique, 919# Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe année, 1991 920# (Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC), 921# pp 8-9. 922# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for the 1918/1991 references. 923# The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. 924# Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. 925# 926# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 927Rule Belgium 1918 only - Mar 9 0:00s 1:00 S 928Rule Belgium 1918 1919 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 929Rule Belgium 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S 930Rule Belgium 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S 931Rule Belgium 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - 932Rule Belgium 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S 933Rule Belgium 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - 934Rule Belgium 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S 935Rule Belgium 1922 1927 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 936Rule Belgium 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00s 1:00 S 937Rule Belgium 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S 938Rule Belgium 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S 939# DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd 940# Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier), 941# to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15 942# changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT. 943Rule Belgium 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S 944Rule Belgium 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S 945Rule Belgium 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S 946Rule Belgium 1928 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - 947Rule Belgium 1929 only - Apr 21 2:00s 1:00 S 948Rule Belgium 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 S 949Rule Belgium 1931 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S 950Rule Belgium 1932 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S 951Rule Belgium 1933 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 S 952Rule Belgium 1934 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S 953Rule Belgium 1935 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S 954Rule Belgium 1936 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S 955Rule Belgium 1937 only - Apr 4 2:00s 1:00 S 956Rule Belgium 1938 only - Mar 27 2:00s 1:00 S 957Rule Belgium 1939 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 S 958Rule Belgium 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 - 959Rule Belgium 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00s 1:00 S 960Rule Belgium 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 - 961Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 962Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 963Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S 964Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - 965# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 966Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 967 0:17:30 - BMT 1892 May 1 00:17:30 968 0:00 - WET 1914 Nov 8 969 1:00 - CET 1916 May 1 0:00 970 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Nov 11 11:00u 971 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 20 2:00s 972 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 3 973 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 974 1:00 EU CE%sT 975 976# Bosnia & Herzegovina 977# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 978Zone Europe/Sarajevo 1:13:40 - LMT 1884 979 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 980 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 981 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 982 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 983 1:00 EU CE%sT 984 985# Bulgaria 986# 987# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 988# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No. 94/1997) says: 989# EET -> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... 990# EETDST -> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October 991# 992# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 993Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S 994Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 995Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00 1:00 S 996Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 - 997Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 - 998# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 999Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 1000 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT? 1001 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00 1002 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 1003 1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00 1004 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00 1005 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 3:00 1006 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 1007 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 1008 2:00 EU EE%sT 1009 1010# Croatia 1011# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1012Zone Europe/Zagreb 1:03:52 - LMT 1884 1013 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1014 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1015 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 1016 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1017 1:00 EU CE%sT 1018 1019# Cyprus 1020# Please see the 'asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. 1021 1022# Czech Republic (Czechia) 1023# 1024# From Ivan Benovic (2024-01-30): 1025# https://www.slov-lex.sk/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/1946/54/ 1026# (This is an official link to the Czechoslovak Summer Time Act of 1027# March 8, 1946 that authorizes the Czechoslovak government to set the 1028# exact dates of change to summer time and back to Central European Time. 1029# The act also implicitly confirms Central European Time as the 1030# official time zone of Czechoslovakia and currently remains in force 1031# in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia.) 1032# https://www.psp.cz/eknih/1945pns/tisky/t0216_00.htm 1033# (This is a link to the original legislative proposal dating back to 1034# February 22, 1946. The accompanying memorandum to the proposal says 1035# that an advisory committee on European railroad transportation that 1036# met in Brussels in October 1945 decided that the change of time 1037# should be carried out in all participating countries in a strictly 1038# coordinated manner....) 1039# 1040# From Paul Eggert (2024-01-30): 1041# The source for Czech data is: Kdy začíná a končí letní čas. 1042# https://kalendar.beda.cz/kdy-zacina-a-konci-letni-cas 1043# Its main text disagrees with its quoted sources only in 1918, 1044# where the main text says spring and autumn transitions 1045# occurred at 02:00 and 03:00 respectively (as usual), 1046# whereas the 1918 source "Oznámení o zavedení letního času v roce 1918" 1047# says transitions were at 01:00 and 02:00 respectively. 1048# As the 1918 source appears to be a humorous piece, and it is 1049# unlikely that Prague would have disagreed with its neighbors by an hour, 1050# go with the main text for now. 1051# 1052# We know of no English-language name for historical Czech winter time; 1053# abbreviate it as "GMT", as it happened to be GMT. 1054# 1055# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1056Rule Czech 1945 only - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 1057Rule Czech 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 1058Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S 1059Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 1060Rule Czech 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 1061Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S 1062# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1063Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 1064 0:57:44 - PMT 1891 Oct # Prague Mean Time 1065 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 9 1066 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1946 Dec 1 3:00 1067# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support negative DST. 1068 1:00 -1:00 GMT 1947 Feb 23 2:00 1069# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking negative DST; see ziguard.awk. 1070# 0:00 - GMT 1947 Feb 23 2:00 1071# End of rearguard section. 1072 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979 1073 1:00 EU CE%sT 1074 1075# Denmark 1076# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1077Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S 1078Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - 1079Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 1080Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 1081Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 - 1082Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S 1083Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 - 1084Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S 1085Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - 1086Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S 1087Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - 1088# 1089 1090# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1091Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 1092 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1093 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1094 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1095 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 1096 1:00 EU CE%sT 1097 1098# Faroe Is 1099# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1100Zone Atlantic/Faroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Tórshavn 1101 0:00 - WET 1981 1102 0:00 EU WE%sT 1103 1104# Greenland 1105# 1106# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): 1107# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in 1108# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. 1109# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. 1110# 1111# From Paul Eggert (2017-12-10): 1112# Greenland joined the European Communities as part of Denmark, 1113# obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, and left the European Communities 1114# on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU 1115# rules at least through 1984. Shanks & Pottenger say Scoresbysund and Godthåb 1116# used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU 1117# rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980. 1118 1119# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-06), citing 1120# <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15), 1121# and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen: 1122# 1123# Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC 1124# is according to the following time line: 1125# 1126# The military zone near Thule UTC-4 1127# Standard Greenland time UTC-3 1128# Scoresbysund UTC-1 1129# Danmarkshavn UTC 1130# 1131# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be 1132# introduced. 1133 1134# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01): 1135# 1136# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at 1137# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have 1138# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have 1139# info from earlier correspondence.] 1140# 1141# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule 1142# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight 1143# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time.... 1144# 1145# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund 1146# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst. 1147# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the 1148# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th 1149# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in 1150# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the 1151# DPC research station at Zackenberg. 1152# 1153# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use 1154# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthåb). 1155# 1156# The rest of Greenland, including Godthåb (this area, although it 1157# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time 1158# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules. 1159# 1160# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and 1161# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators 1162# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of 1163# this area is that it sticks with Godthåb time. This area might be 1164# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this. 1165 1166# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19): 1167# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place 1168# there at 2:00 AM. 1169 1170# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1171# From 1997 on the CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; 1172# the 1995 map as like Godthåb. 1173# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthåb before 1996. 1174# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error, 1175# so go with Shanks & Pottenger for Thule transitions until this year. 1176# For 2007 on assume Thule will stay in sync with US DST rules. 1177 1178# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20): 1179# "Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund" is officially named 1180# "National Park" by Executive Order: 1181# http://naalakkersuisut.gl/~/media/Nanoq/Files/Attached%20Files/Engelske-tekster/Legislation/Executive%20Order%20National%20Park.rtf 1182# It is their only National Park. 1183 1184# From Jonas Nyrup (2022-11-24): 1185# On last Saturday in October 2023 when DST ends America/Nuuk will switch 1186# from -03/-02 to -02/-01 1187# https://sermitsiaq.ag/forslagtidsforskel-danmark-mindskes-sommertid-beholdes 1188# ... 1189# https://sermitsiaq.ag/groenland-skifte-tidszone-trods-bekymringer 1190# 1191# From Jürgen Appel (2022-11-25): 1192# https://ina.gl/samlinger/oversigt-over-samlinger/samling/dagsordener/dagsorden.aspx?lang=da&day=24-11-2022 1193# 1194# From Thomas M. Steenholdt (2022-12-02): 1195# - The bill to move America/Nuuk from UTC-03 to UTC-02 passed. 1196# - The bill to stop observing DST did not (Greenland will stop observing DST 1197# when EU does). 1198# Details on the implementation are here (section 6): 1199# https://ina.gl/dvd/EM%202022/pdf/media/2553529/pkt17_em2022_tidens_bestemmelse_bem_da.pdf 1200# This is how the change will be implemented: 1201# 1. The shift *to* DST in 2023 happens as normal. 1202# 2. The shift *from* DST in 2023 happens as normal, but coincides with the 1203# shift to UTC-02 normaltime (people will not change their clocks here). 1204# 3. After this, DST is still observed, but as -02/-01 instead of -03/-02. 1205# 1206# From Múte Bourup Egede via Jógvan Svabo Samuelsen (2023-03-15): 1207# Greenland will not switch to Daylight Saving Time this year, 2023, 1208# because the standard time for Greenland will change from UTC -3 to UTC -2. 1209# However, Greenland will change to Daylight Saving Time again in 2024 1210# and onwards. 1211 1212# From Jule Dabars (2023-10-29): 1213# https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/i-nat-skal-uret-stilles-en-time-tilbage-men-foerste-gang-sker-det-ikke-i-groenland 1214# with a link to that page: 1215# https://naalakkersuisut.gl/Nyheder/2023/10/2710_sommertid 1216# ... Ittoqqortoormiit joins the time of Nuuk at March 2024. 1217# What would mean that America/Scoresbysund would either be in -01 year round 1218# or in -02/-01 like America/Nuuk, but no longer in -01/+00. 1219# 1220# From Paul Eggert (2023-10-29): 1221# For now, assume it will be like America/Nuuk. 1222 1223# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1224Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1225Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1226Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1227Rule Thule 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1228Rule Thule 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1229Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1230# 1231# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1232Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 1233 -3:00 - %z 1980 Apr 6 2:00 1234 -3:00 EU %z 1996 1235 0:00 - GMT 1236# 1237# Use the old name Scoresbysund, as the current name Ittoqqortoormiit 1238# exceeds tzdb's 14-letter limit and has no common English abbreviation. 1239Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit 1240 -2:00 - %z 1980 Apr 6 2:00 1241 -2:00 C-Eur %z 1981 Mar 29 1242 -1:00 EU %z 2024 Mar 31 1243 -2:00 EU %z 1244Zone America/Nuuk -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Godthåb 1245 -3:00 - %z 1980 Apr 6 2:00 1246 -3:00 EU %z 2023 Mar 26 1:00u 1247 -2:00 - %z 2023 Oct 29 1:00u 1248 -2:00 EU %z 1249Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik 1250 -4:00 Thule A%sT 1251 1252# Estonia 1253# 1254# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 1255# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 1256# 1257# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): 1258# A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards 1259# [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, 1260# a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... 1261# 1262# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): 1263# [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, 1264# but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] 1265# "I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different 1266# (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules 1267# conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia.... 1268# A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on 1269# human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to 1270# summer time next spring." 1271 1272# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: 1273# The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law 1274# http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390 1275# refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between 1276# the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22-27, 120). 1277# 1278# I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation 1279# for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" 1280# (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). 1281 1282# From The Baltic Times <https://www.baltictimes.com/> (1999-09-09) 1283# via Steffen Thorsen: 1284# This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time, 1285# a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6.... 1286# But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European 1287# Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory 1288# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do 1289# after that. 1290 1291# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29): 1292# Regulation No. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation 1293# No. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all 1294# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01. 1295 1296# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21): 1297# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics. 1298# Now we are using again EU rules. 1299# 1300# From Urmet Jänes (2002-03-28): 1301# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21. 1302 1303# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1304Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 1305 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time 1306 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul 1307 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May 1308 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6 1309 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15 1310 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22 1311 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 1312 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s 1313 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22 1314 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Oct 31 4:00 1315 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21 1316 2:00 EU EE%sT 1317 1318# Finland 1319 1320# From Hannu Strang (1994-09-25 06:03:37 UTC): 1321# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, 1322# and it's supposed to change at 4am... 1323 1324# From Janne Snabb (2010-07-15): 1325# 1326# I noticed that the Finland data is not accurate for years 1981 and 1982. 1327# During these two first trial years the DST adjustment was made one hour 1328# earlier than in forthcoming years. Starting 1983 the adjustment was made 1329# according to the central European standards. 1330# 1331# This is documented in Heikki Oja: Aikakirja 2007, published by The Almanac 1332# Office of University of Helsinki, ISBN 952-10-3221-9, available online (in 1333# Finnish) at 1334# https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf 1335# 1336# Page 105 (56 in PDF version) has a handy table of all past daylight savings 1337# transitions. It is easy enough to interpret without Finnish skills. 1338# 1339# This is also confirmed by Finnish Broadcasting Company's archive at: 1340# http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401 1341# 1342# The news clip from 1981 says that "the time between 2 and 3 o'clock does not 1343# exist tonight." 1344 1345# From Konstantin Hyppönen (2014-06-13): 1346# [Heikki Oja's book Aikakirja 2013] 1347# https://almanakka.helsinki.fi/images/aikakirja/Aikakirja2013kokonaan.pdf 1348# pages 104-105, including a scan from a newspaper published on Apr 2 1942 1349# say that ... [o]n Apr 2 1942, 24 o'clock (which means Apr 3 1942, 1350# 00:00), clocks were moved one hour forward. The newspaper 1351# mentions "on the night from Thursday to Friday".... 1352# On Oct 4 1942, clocks were moved at 1:00 one hour backwards. 1353# 1354# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-14): 1355# Go with Oja over Shanks. 1356 1357# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1358Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 2 24:00 1:00 S 1359Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 4 1:00 0 - 1360Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 1361Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 1362 1363# Milne says Helsinki (Helsingfors) time was 1:39:49.2 (official document). 1364 1365# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1366 #STDOFF 1:39:49.2 1367Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:49 - LMT 1878 May 31 1368 1:39:49 - HMT 1921 May # Helsinki Mean Time 1369 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1983 1370 2:00 EU EE%sT 1371 1372# Åland Is 1373Link Europe/Helsinki Europe/Mariehamn 1374 1375# France 1376 1377# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): 1378# 1379# Henri Le Corre, Régimes horaires pour le monde entier, Éditions 1380# Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993 1381# 1382# Gabriel, Traité de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Trédaniel, 1383# Paris, 1991 1384# 1385# Françoise Gauquelin, Problèmes de l'heure résolus en astrologie, 1386# Guy Trédaniel, Paris 1987 1387 1388# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-11): 1389# the law of 1891 <https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k64415343.texteImage> 1390# was published on 1891-03-15, so it could only take force on 1891-03-16. 1391 1392# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-10): 1393# Le Gaulois, 1911-03-11, page 1/6, online at 1394# https://www.retronews.fr/societe/echo-de-presse/2018/01/29/1911-change-lheure-de-paris 1395# ... [ Instantly, all pressure driven clock dials halted... Nine minutes and 1396# twenty-one seconds later the hands resumed their circular motion. ] 1397# There are also precise reports about how the change was prepared in train 1398# stations: all the publicly visible clocks stopped at midnight railway time 1399# (or were covered), only the chief of service had a watch, labeled 1400# "Heure ancienne", that he kept running until it reached 00:04:21, when 1401# he announced "Heure nouvelle". See the "Le Petit Journal 1911-03-11". 1402# https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6192911/f1.item.zoom 1403# 1404# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12): 1405# That "all French clocks stopped" for 00:09:21 is a misreading of French 1406# newspapers; this sort of adjustment applies only to certain 1407# remote-controlled clocks ("pendules pneumatiques", of which there existed 1408# perhaps a dozen in Paris, and which simply could not be set back remotely), 1409# but not to all the clocks in all French towns and villages. For instance, 1410# the following story in the "Courrier de Saône-et-Loire" 1911-03-11, page 2: 1411# only works if legal time was stepped back (was not monotone): ... 1412# [One can observe that children who had been born at midnight less 5 1413# minutes and who had died at midnight of the old time, would turn out to 1414# be dead before being born, time having been set back and having 1415# suppressed 9 minutes and 25 seconds of their existence, that is, more 1416# than they could spend.] 1417# 1418# From Paul Eggert (2020-06-12): 1419# French time in railway stations was legally five minutes behind civil time, 1420# which explains why railway "old time" ran to 00:04:21 instead of to 00:09:21. 1421# The law's text (which Michael Deckers noted is at 1422# <https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2022333z/f2>) says only that 1423# at 1911-03-11 00:00 legal time was that of Paris mean time delayed by 1424# nine minutes and twenty-one seconds, and does not say how the 1425# transition from Paris mean time was to occur. 1426# 1427# tzdb has no way to represent stopped clocks. As the railway practice 1428# was to keep a watch running on "old time" to decide when to restart 1429# the other clocks, this could be modeled as a transition for "old time" at 1430# 00:09:21. However, since the law was ambiguous and clocks outside railway 1431# stations were probably done haphazardly with the popular impression being 1432# that the transition was done at 00:00 "old time", simply leave the time 1433# blank; this causes zic to default to 00:00 "old time" which is good enough. 1434# Do something similar for the 1891-03-16 transition. There are similar 1435# problems in Algiers, Monaco and Tunis. 1436 1437# 1438# Shank & Pottenger seem to use '24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman. 1439# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1440Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S 1441Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - 1442Rule France 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S 1443Rule France 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S 1444Rule France 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S 1445Rule France 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S 1446Rule France 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 - 1447Rule France 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S 1448Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - 1449Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S 1450# DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st 1451# Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions 1452# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1453Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 1454Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S 1455Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S 1456Rule France 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S 1457Rule France 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S 1458Rule France 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S 1459Rule France 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S 1460Rule France 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S 1461Rule France 1930 only - Apr 12 23:00s 1:00 S 1462Rule France 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S 1463Rule France 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S 1464Rule France 1933 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S 1465Rule France 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S 1466Rule France 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S 1467Rule France 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S 1468Rule France 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S 1469Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S 1470Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S 1471Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - 1472Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S 1473# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks & Pottenger 1474# write that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations. 1475# Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arnéguy, Orthez, 1476# Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamothe-Montravel, Marœuil, La 1477# Rochefoucauld, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Descartes, 1478# Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin, 1479# Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalon-sur-Saône, Arbois, 1480# Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collonges (Haute-Savoie). 1481Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer 1482# Shanks & Pottenger say this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, 1483# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), 1484# who quotes the Ephémérides astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes 1485# as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. 1486Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S 1487Rule France 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 2:00 M 1488Rule France 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 1:00 S 1489Rule France 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 2:00 M 1490Rule France 1943 only - Oct 4 3:00 1:00 S 1491Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 M 1492Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S 1493Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 M 1494Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 - 1495# Shanks & Pottenger give Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00; 1496# go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT. 1497Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 S 1498Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 - 1499# Howse writes that the time in France was officially based 1500# on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC. 1501# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1502Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 16 1503 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time 1504# Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. 1505 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 1506# Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation; 1507# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1508 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25 1509 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 1510 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 1511 1:00 EU CE%sT 1512 1513# Germany 1514 1515# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): 1516# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische 1517# Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. 1518# [See tz-link.html for the URL.] 1519 1520# From Jörg Schilling (2002-10-23): 1521# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by 1522# https://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/ 1523# General [Nikolai] Bersarin. 1524 1525# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08): 1526# http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf 1527# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20. 1528# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so 1529# this was equivalent to UT +03, not +04. 1530 1531 1532# From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01): 1533# Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and 1534# Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the 1535# time they were declared as parts of Norway. Svalbard was declared 1536# as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan 1537# Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From 1538# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html> and 1539# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html>). The law/regulation 1540# for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came 1541# into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a 1542# part of this law since 1925/1930. (From 1543# <http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html>) I have not been 1544# able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100) 1545# before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabited" since 1921 by 1546# Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever 1547# since 1921. Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since 1548# before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere 1549# between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive). 1550 1551# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-04): 1552# 1553# Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, 1554# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was 1555# keeping Berlin time. 1556# 1557# <https://www.jan-mayen.no/history.htm> says that the meteorologists 1558# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in 1559# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite 1560# frequent air attacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a 1561# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly 1562# the UT offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that 1563# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules. 1564# 1565# Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an 1566# Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says 1567# <http://www.bartleby.com/65/sv/Svalbard.html>). The Svalbard FAQ 1568# <http://www.svalbard.com/SvalbardFAQ.html> says that the Germans were 1569# expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, 1570# and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) 1571# http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/departments/UP/1-55238/1-55238-110-2.html 1572# the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named 1573# Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. 1574# 1575# All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970, so use Europe/Berlin 1576# for these regions. 1577 1578# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1579Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S 1580Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - 1581Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 1582# https://www.ptb.de/cms/en/ptb/fachabteilungen/abt4/fb-44/ag-441/realisation-of-legal-time-in-germany/dst-and-midsummer-dst-in-germany-until-1979.html 1583# says the following transition occurred at 3:00 MEZ, not the 2:00 MEZ 1584# given in Shanks & Pottenger. Go with the PTB. 1585Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 3:00s 1:00 S 1586Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M 1587Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S 1588Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S 1589Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S 1590 1591Rule SovietZone 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer 1592Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S 1593Rule SovietZone 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 - 1594 1595# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1596Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1597 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00 1598 1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946 1599 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1600 1:00 EU CE%sT 1601 1602# Georgia 1603# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. 1604# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) 1605# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. 1606 1607# Gibraltar 1608# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1609Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 1610 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00 1611 1:00 - CET 1982 1612 1:00 EU CE%sT 1613 1614# Greece 1615# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1616# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1617Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S 1618Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 1619# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1620Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S 1621# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1622Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 - 1623Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S 1624Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 1625# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1626Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S 1627Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 - 1628Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S 1629Rule Greece 1975 only - Nov 26 0:00s 0 - 1630Rule Greece 1976 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 S 1631Rule Greece 1976 only - Oct 10 2:00s 0 - 1632Rule Greece 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 1633Rule Greece 1977 only - Sep 26 2:00s 0 - 1634Rule Greece 1978 only - Sep 24 4:00 0 - 1635Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S 1636Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 - 1637Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1638Rule Greece 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - 1639# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1640Zone Europe/Athens 1:34:52 - LMT 1895 Sep 14 1641 1:34:52 - AMT 1916 Jul 28 0:01 # Athens MT 1642 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1941 Apr 30 1643 1:00 Greece CE%sT 1944 Apr 4 1644 2:00 Greece EE%sT 1981 1645 # Shanks & Pottenger say it switched to C-Eur in 1981; 1646 # go with EU rules instead, since Greece joined Jan 1. 1647 2:00 EU EE%sT 1648 1649# Hungary 1650 1651# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-09): 1652# an Austrian encyclopedia of railroads of 1913, online at 1653# http://www.zeno.org/Roell-1912/A/Eisenbahnzeit 1654# says that the switch [to CET] happened on 1890-11-01. 1655 1656# From Géza Nyáry (2020-06-07): 1657# Data for 1918-1983 are based on the archive database of Library Hungaricana. 1658# The dates are collected from original, scanned governmental orders, 1659# bulletins, instructions and public press. 1660# [See URLs below.] 1661 1662# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1663# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1918/?pg=238 1664# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1919/?pg=808 1665# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1920/?pg=201 1666Rule Hungary 1918 1919 - Apr 15 2:00 1:00 S 1667Rule Hungary 1918 1920 - Sep Mon>=15 3:00 0 - 1668Rule Hungary 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00 1:00 S 1669# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1945/?pg=882 1670Rule Hungary 1945 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 S 1671Rule Hungary 1945 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - 1672# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1946_03/?pg=49 1673Rule Hungary 1946 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S 1674# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1946_09/?pg=54 1675Rule Hungary 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 - 1676# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KulfBelfHirek_1947_04_1__001-123/?pg=90 1677# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DunantuliNaplo_1947_09/?pg=128 1678# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KulfBelfHirek_1948_03_3__001-123/?pg=304 1679# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Zala_1948_09/?pg=64 1680# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SatoraljaujhelyiLeveltar_ZempleniNepujsag_1948/?pg=53 1681# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SatoraljaujhelyiLeveltar_ZempleniNepujsag_1948/?pg=160 1682# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/UjSzo_1949_01-04/?pg=102 1683# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/KeletMagyarorszag_1949_03/?pg=96 1684# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1949_09/?pg=94 1685Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Apr Sun>=4 2:00s 1:00 S 1686Rule Hungary 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 1687# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1954/?pg=513 1688Rule Hungary 1954 only - May 23 0:00 1:00 S 1689Rule Hungary 1954 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 1690# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1955/?pg=398 1691Rule Hungary 1955 only - May 22 2:00 1:00 S 1692Rule Hungary 1955 only - Oct 2 3:00 0 - 1693# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/HevesMegyeiNepujsag_1956_06/?pg=0 1694# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/EszakMagyarorszag_1956_06/?pg=6 1695# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/SzolnokMegyeiNeplap_1957_04/?pg=120 1696# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/PestMegyeiHirlap_1957_09/?pg=143 1697Rule Hungary 1956 1957 - Jun Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 1698Rule Hungary 1956 1957 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 1699# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1980/?pg=189 1700Rule Hungary 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S 1701Rule Hungary 1980 only - Sep 28 1:00 0 - 1702# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1980/?pg=1227 1703# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/Delmagyarorszag_1981_01/?pg=79 1704# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1982/?pg=115 1705# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/DTT_KOZL_TanacsokKozlonye_1983/?pg=85 1706Rule Hungary 1981 1983 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1707Rule Hungary 1981 1983 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - 1708# 1709# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1710Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Nov 1 1711 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 1712# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1941/?pg=1204 1713# https://library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/OGYK_RT_1942/?pg=3955 1714 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1941 Apr 7 23:00 1715 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 1716 1:00 Hungary CE%sT 1984 1717 1:00 EU CE%sT 1718 1719# Iceland 1720# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1721Rule Iceland 1917 1919 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 - 1722Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 - 1723Rule Iceland 1918 1919 - Nov 16 1:00 0 - 1724Rule Iceland 1921 only - Mar 19 23:00 1:00 - 1725Rule Iceland 1921 only - Jun 23 1:00 0 - 1726Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 - 1727Rule Iceland 1939 only - Oct 29 2:00 0 - 1728Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 - 1729Rule Iceland 1940 1941 - Nov Sun>=2 1:00s 0 - 1730Rule Iceland 1941 1942 - Mar Sun>=2 1:00s 1:00 - 1731# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter 1732Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - 1733Rule Iceland 1942 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - 1734# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter 1735Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - 1736# 1949 and 1967 Oct transitions delayed by 1 week 1737Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - 1738Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - 1739Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - 1740 1741# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1742Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 1743 -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s 1744 0:00 - GMT 1745 1746# Italy 1747# 1748# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1749# Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893, 1750# called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32). 1751# During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time. 1752# But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, 1753# so record only the time in Rome. 1754# 1755# From Stephen Trainor (2019-05-06): 1756# http://www.ac-ilsestante.it/MERIDIANE/ora_legale/ORA_LEGALE_ESTIVA_IN_ITALIA.htm 1757# ... the [1866] law went into effect on 12 December 1866, rather than 1758# the date of the decree (22 Sep 1866) 1759# https://web.archive.org/web/20070824155341/http://www.iav.it/planetario/didastro/didastro/english.htm 1760# ... "In Italy in 1866 there were 6 railway times (Torino, Verona, Firenze, 1761# Roma, Napoli, Palermo). On that year it was decided to unify them, adopting 1762# the average time of Rome (even if this city was not yet part of the 1763# kingdom). On the 12th December 1866, on the starting of the winter time 1764# table, it took effect in the railways, the post office and the telegraph, 1765# not only for the internal service but also for the public.... Milano set 1766# the public watches on the Rome time on the same day (12th December 1866), 1767# Torino and Bologna on the 1st January 1867, Venezia the 1st May 1880 and the 1768# last city was Cagliari in 1886." 1769# 1770# From Luigi Rosa (2019-05-07): 1771# this is the scan of the decree: 1772# http://www.radiomarconi.com/marconi/filopanti/1866c.jpg 1773# 1774# From Michael Deckers (2016-10-24): 1775# http://www.ac-ilsestante.it/MERIDIANE/ora_legale quotes a law of 1893-08-10 1776# ... [translated as] "The preceding dispositions will enter into 1777# force at the instant at which, according to the time specified in 1778# the 1st article, the 1st of November 1893 will begin...." 1779# 1780# From Pierpaolo Bernardi (2016-10-20): 1781# The authoritative source for time in Italy is the national metrological 1782# institute, which has a summary page of historical DST data at 1783# http://www.inrim.it/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml 1784# [now at http://oldsite.inrim.it/res/tf/ora_legale_i.shtml as of 2017] 1785# (2016-10-24): 1786# http://www.renzobaldini.it/le-ore-legali-in-italia/ 1787# has still different data for 1944. It divides Italy in two, as 1788# there were effectively two governments at the time, north of Gothic 1789# Line German controlled territory, official government RSI, and south 1790# of the Gothic Line, controlled by allied armies. 1791# 1792# From Brian Inglis (2016-10-23): 1793# Viceregal LEGISLATIVE DECREE. 14 September 1944, no. 219. 1794# Restoration of Standard Time. (044U0219) (OJ 62 of 30.9.1944) ... 1795# Given the R. law decreed on 1944-03-29, no. 92, by which standard time is 1796# advanced to sixty minutes later starting at hour two on 1944-04-02; ... 1797# Starting at hour three on the date 1944-09-17 standard time will be resumed. 1798# 1799# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-02): 1800# I spent 6 Euros to buy two archive copies of Il Messaggero, a Roman paper, 1801# for 1 and 2 April 1944. The edition of 2 April has this note: "Tonight at 2 1802# am, put forward the clock by one hour. Remember that in the night between 1803# today and Monday the 'ora legale' will come in force again." That makes it 1804# clear that in Rome the change was on Monday, 3 April 1944 at 2 am. 1805# 1806# From Paul Eggert (2021-10-05): 1807# Go with INRiM for DST rules, except as corrected by Inglis for 1944 1808# for the Kingdom of Italy. This is consistent with Renzo Baldini. 1809# Model Rome's occupation by using C-Eur rules from 1943-09-10 1810# to 1944-06-04; although Rome was an open city during this period, it 1811# was effectively controlled by Germany. Using C-Eur is consistent 1812# with Treindl's comment about Rome in April 1944, as the "Rule Italy" 1813# lines during German occupation do not affect Europe/Rome 1814# (though they do affect Europe/Malta). 1815# 1816# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1817Rule Italy 1916 only - Jun 3 24:00 1:00 S 1818Rule Italy 1916 1917 - Sep 30 24:00 0 - 1819Rule Italy 1917 only - Mar 31 24:00 1:00 S 1820Rule Italy 1918 only - Mar 9 24:00 1:00 S 1821Rule Italy 1918 only - Oct 6 24:00 0 - 1822Rule Italy 1919 only - Mar 1 24:00 1:00 S 1823Rule Italy 1919 only - Oct 4 24:00 0 - 1824Rule Italy 1920 only - Mar 20 24:00 1:00 S 1825Rule Italy 1920 only - Sep 18 24:00 0 - 1826Rule Italy 1940 only - Jun 14 24:00 1:00 S 1827Rule Italy 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 - 1828Rule Italy 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S 1829Rule Italy 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 - 1830Rule Italy 1944 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 1831Rule Italy 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 - 1832Rule Italy 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 S 1833Rule Italy 1945 only - Sep 15 1:00 0 - 1834Rule Italy 1946 only - Mar 17 2:00s 1:00 S 1835Rule Italy 1946 only - Oct 6 2:00s 0 - 1836Rule Italy 1947 only - Mar 16 0:00s 1:00 S 1837Rule Italy 1947 only - Oct 5 0:00s 0 - 1838Rule Italy 1948 only - Feb 29 2:00s 1:00 S 1839Rule Italy 1948 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 - 1840Rule Italy 1966 1968 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S 1841Rule Italy 1966 only - Sep 24 24:00 0 - 1842Rule Italy 1967 1969 - Sep Sun>=22 0:00s 0 - 1843Rule Italy 1969 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S 1844Rule Italy 1970 only - May 31 0:00s 1:00 S 1845Rule Italy 1970 only - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 1846Rule Italy 1971 1972 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S 1847Rule Italy 1971 only - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 1848Rule Italy 1972 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - 1849Rule Italy 1973 only - Jun 3 0:00s 1:00 S 1850Rule Italy 1973 1974 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 1851Rule Italy 1974 only - May 26 0:00s 1:00 S 1852Rule Italy 1975 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S 1853Rule Italy 1975 1977 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 1854Rule Italy 1976 only - May 30 0:00s 1:00 S 1855Rule Italy 1977 1979 - May Sun>=22 0:00s 1:00 S 1856Rule Italy 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 - 1857Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 - 1858# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1859Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Dec 12 1860 0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Oct 31 23:00u # Rome Mean 1861 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1943 Sep 10 1862 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jun 4 1863 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980 1864 1:00 EU CE%sT 1865 1866# Kosovo 1867# See Europe/Belgrade. 1868 1869# Latvia 1870 1871# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): 1872 1873# I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy 1874# of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the 1875# correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about 1876# changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981.... 1877# 1878# Act No. 35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ... 1879# according to the Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24 1880# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning 1881# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00) 1882# and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00). 1883# 1884# Act No. 592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ... 1885# according to the Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13 1886# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning 1887# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 1888# (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of 1889# September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day). 1890# 1891# Act No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ... 1892# according to the Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14 1893# ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR, 1894# Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the 1895# time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia 1896# transition to summer time is performed on the last Sunday of March at 02:00 1897# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour forward. The end of 1898# daylight saving time is performed on the last Sunday of September at 03:00 1899# (GMT 00:00), turning the hands of the clock 1 hour backward. Exception is 1900# 1989-03-26, when we must not turn the hands of the clock.... 1901# 1902# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Latvia of 1903# 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of 1904# daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union. 1905 1906# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06): 1907# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in 1908# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of 1909# 29-Feb-2000 (No. 79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>, 1910# in Latvian for subscribers only). 1911 1912# From RFE/RL Newsline 1913# http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2001/01/3-CEE/cee-030101.html 1914# (2001-01-03), noted after a heads-up by Rives McDow: 1915# The Latvian government on 2 January decided that the country will 1916# institute daylight-saving time this spring, LETA reported. 1917# Last February the three Baltic states decided not to turn back their 1918# clocks one hour in the spring.... 1919# Minister of Economy Aigars Kalvītis noted that Latvia had too few 1920# daylight hours and thus decided to comply with a draft European 1921# Commission directive that provides for instituting daylight-saving 1922# time in EU countries between 2002 and 2006. The Latvian government 1923# urged Lithuania and Estonia to adopt a similar time policy, but it 1924# appears that they will not do so.... 1925 1926# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1927Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 1928Rule Latvia 1989 1996 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 1929 1930# Milne 1899 says Riga was 1:36:28 (Polytechnique House time). 1931# Byalokoz 1919 says Latvia was 1:36:34. 1932# Go with Byalokoz. 1933 1934# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1935Zone Europe/Riga 1:36:34 - LMT 1880 1936 1:36:34 - RMT 1918 Apr 15 2:00 # Riga MT 1937 1:36:34 1:00 LST 1918 Sep 16 3:00 # Latvian ST 1938 1:36:34 - RMT 1919 Apr 1 2:00 1939 1:36:34 1:00 LST 1919 May 22 3:00 1940 1:36:34 - RMT 1926 May 11 1941 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 5 1942 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jul 1943 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 13 1944 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s 1945 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s 1946 2:00 Latvia EE%sT 1997 Jan 21 1947 2:00 EU EE%sT 2000 Feb 29 1948 2:00 - EET 2001 Jan 2 1949 2:00 EU EE%sT 1950 1951# Liechtenstein 1952# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1953Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun 1954 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 1955 1:00 EU CE%sT 1956 1957# Lithuania 1958 1959# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 1960# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 1961 1962# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 1963# IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is 1964# known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. 1965 1966# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): 1967# I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone 1968# (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. 1969 1970# From ELTA No. 972 (2582) (1999-09-29) <http://www.elta.lt/>, 1971# via Steffen Thorsen: 1972# Lithuania has shifted back to the second time zone (GMT plus two hours) 1973# to be valid here starting from October 31, 1974# as decided by the national government on Wednesday.... 1975# The Lithuanian government also announced plans to consider a 1976# motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was 1977# already done by Estonia. 1978 1979# From the Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism 1980# <http://www.tourism.lt/informa/ff.htm> (2000-03-27): 1981# Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving. 1982 1983# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07): 1984# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will 1985# observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid 1986# down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its 1987# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of 1988# 7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at 1989# http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm 1990 1991 1992# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1993Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880 1994 1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time 1995 1:35:36 - KMT 1919 Oct 10 # Kaunas Mean Time 1996 1:00 - CET 1920 Jul 12 1997 2:00 - EET 1920 Oct 9 1998 1:00 - CET 1940 Aug 3 1999 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 24 2000 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 2001 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2002 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 2003 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 2004 2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u 2005 1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u 2006 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1 2007 2:00 EU EE%sT 2008 2009# Luxembourg 2010# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2011Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S 2012Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 2013Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S 2014Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 - 2015Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 2016Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - 2017Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S 2018Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 - 2019Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S 2020Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 - 2021Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S 2022Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 - 2023Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S 2024Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - 2025Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S 2026Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 - 2027Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S 2028Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - 2029Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S 2030Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S 2031Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S 2032Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S 2033Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S 2034 2035# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2036Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun 2037 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25 2038 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s 2039 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00 2040 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00 2041 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 2042 1:00 EU CE%sT 2043 2044# North Macedonia 2045# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2046Zone Europe/Skopje 1:25:44 - LMT 1884 2047 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 2048 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 2049 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 2050 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 2051 1:00 EU CE%sT 2052 2053# Malta 2054# 2055# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-21): 2056# Assume 1900-1972 was like Rome, overriding Shanks. 2057# 2058# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2059Rule Malta 1973 only - Mar 31 0:00s 1:00 S 2060Rule Malta 1973 only - Sep 29 0:00s 0 - 2061Rule Malta 1974 only - Apr 21 0:00s 1:00 S 2062Rule Malta 1974 only - Sep 16 0:00s 0 - 2063Rule Malta 1975 1979 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 2064Rule Malta 1975 1980 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 - 2065Rule Malta 1980 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 2066# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2067Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta 2068 1:00 Italy CE%sT 1973 Mar 31 2069 1:00 Malta CE%sT 1981 2070 1:00 EU CE%sT 2071 2072# Moldova 2073 2074# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): 2075# the act of the government of the Republic of Moldova Nr. 132 from 1990-05-04 2076# http://lex.justice.md/viewdoc.php?action=view&view=doc&id=298782&lang=2 2077# ... says that since 1990-05-06 on the territory of the Moldavian SSR 2078# time would be calculated as the standard time of the second time belt 2079# plus one hour of the "summer" time. To implement that clocks would be 2080# adjusted one hour backwards at 1990-05-06 2:00. After that "summer" 2081# time would be cancelled last Sunday of September at 3:00 and 2082# reintroduced last Sunday of March at 2:00. 2083 2084# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2085# A previous version of this database followed Shanks & Pottenger, who write 2086# that Tiraspol switched to Moscow time on 1992-01-19 at 02:00. 2087# However, this is most likely an error, as Moldova declared independence 2088# on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). 2089# In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area 2090# and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. 2091# But [two people] separately reported via 2092# Jesper Nørgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. 2093# The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. 2094# 2095# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-17): 2096# Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR, also known as 2097# "Pridnestrovie") has abolished seasonal clock change (no transition 2098# to the Winter Time). 2099# 2100# News (in Russian): 2101# http://www.kyivpost.ua/russia/news/pridnestrove-otkazalos-ot-perehoda-na-zimnee-vremya-30954.html 2102# http://www.allmoldova.com/moldova-news/1249064116.html 2103# 2104# The substance of this change (reinstatement of the Tiraspol entry) 2105# is from a patch from Petr Machata (2011-10-17) 2106# 2107# From Tim Parenti (2011-10-19) 2108# In addition, being situated at +4651+2938 would give Tiraspol 2109# a pre-1880 LMT offset of 1:58:32. 2110# 2111# (which agrees with the earlier entry that had been removed) 2112# 2113# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-10-26) 2114# NO need to divide Moldova into two timezones at this point. 2115# As of today, Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- Tiraspol reversed its own 2116# decision to abolish DST this winter. 2117# Following Moldova and neighboring Ukraine- Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)- 2118# Tiraspol will go back to winter time on October 30, 2011. 2119# News from Moldova (in russian): 2120# https://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html 2121 2122# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02): 2123# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077 2124# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01): 2125# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that 2126# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also, 2127# https://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara 2128# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time. 2129# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU. 2130 2131# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2132Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 2133Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 - 2134 2135# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2136Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880 2137 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT 2138 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT 2139 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 2140 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 2141 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 2142 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 May 6 2:00 2143 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 2144 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 2145# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules. 2146 2:00 Moldova EE%sT 2147 2148# Monaco 2149# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2150Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1892 Jun 1 2151 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 29 # Paris Mean Time 2152 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 2153 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 2154 1:00 EU CE%sT 2155 2156# Montenegro 2157Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Podgorica 2158 2159# Netherlands 2160# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2161Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time 2162Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time 2163Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST 2164Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT 2165Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 2166Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT 2167Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST 2168Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT 2169Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 2170Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST 2171Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 2172# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week 2173# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. 2174Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST 2175Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST 2176Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST 2177Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST 2178Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S 2179Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - 2180Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S 2181Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 2182Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 2183 #STDOFF 0:19:32.13 2184 2185# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2186Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 2187 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 2188 0:20 Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16 0:00 2189 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 2190 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 2191 1:00 EU CE%sT 2192 2193# Norway 2194# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2195Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S 2196Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 2197Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 2198Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 2199Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 2200Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 2201Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S 2202 2203# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2204Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 2205 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 2206 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 2207 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 2208 1:00 EU CE%sT 2209 2210# Svalbard & Jan Mayen 2211Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen 2212 2213# Poland 2214 2215# The 1919 dates and times can be found in Tygodnik Urzędowy nr 1 (1919-03-20), 2216# <http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/publication/32156> pp 1-2. 2217 2218# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2219Rule Poland 1918 1919 - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 2220Rule Poland 1919 only - Apr 15 2:00s 1:00 S 2221Rule Poland 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S 2222# Whitman gives 1944 Nov 30; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2223Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - 2224# For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2225Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S 2226Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2227# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, 2228# Toruń Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., 2229# https://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/~kb/Artykuly/U-PA/Czas2.htm#tth_tAb1 2230# Thanks to Przemysław Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. 2231# He also gives these further references: 2232# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) <http://www.abc.com.pl/serwis/mp/1995/0162.htm> 2233# Druk nr 2180 (2003) <http://www.senat.gov.pl/k5/dok/sejm/053/2180.pdf> 2234Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S 2235Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - 2236Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S 2237Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 2238Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S 2239Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S 2240Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S 2241Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 2242Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S 2243Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S 2244Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - 2245Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S 2246Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S 2247Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 2248# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2249Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 2250 1:24:00 - WMT 1915 Aug 5 # Warsaw Mean Time 2251 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Sep 16 3:00 2252 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun 2253 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 2254 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 2255 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 2256 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 2257 1:00 EU CE%sT 2258 2259# Portugal 2260 2261# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Alois Treindl (2021-02-07) and Michael 2262# Deckers (2021-02-10): 2263# http://oal.ul.pt/documentos/2018/01/hl1911a2018.pdf/ 2264# The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon has published a list detailing the 2265# historical transitions in legal time within continental Portugal. It 2266# directly references many decrees and ordinances which are, in turn, 2267# referenced below. They can be viewed in the public archives of the Diário da 2268# República (until 1976-04-09 known as the Diário do Govêrno) at 2269# https://dre.pt/ (in Portuguese). 2270# 2271# Most of the Rules below have been updated simply to match the Observatory's 2272# listing for continental (mainland) Portugal. Although there are over 50 2273# referenced decrees and ordinances, only the handful with comments below have 2274# been verified against the text, typically to provide additional confidence 2275# wherever dates provided by Whitman and Shanks & Pottenger had disagreed. 2276# See further below for the Azores and Madeira. 2277 2278# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a 2279# heads-up from Stephen Colebourne: 2280# According to a 1911-05-24 Portuguese decree, Lisbon was at -0:36:44.68, but 2281# switched to GMT on 1912-01-01 at 00:00. 2282# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/593090 2283# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/593090 2284# The decree made legal time throughout Portugal and her possessions 2285# "subordinate to the Greenwich meridian, according to the principle adopted at 2286# the Washington Convention in 1884" and eliminated the "difference of five 2287# minutes between the internal and external clocks of railway stations". 2288# 2289# The decree was gazetted in the 1911-05-30 issue of Diário do Govêrno, and is 2290# considered to be dated 1911-05-24 by that issue's summary; however, the text 2291# of the decree itself is dated 1911-05-26. The Diário da República website 2292# notes the discrepancy, but later laws and the Observatory all seem to refer 2293# to this decree by the 1911-05-24 date. 2294# 2295# From Michael Deckers (2018-02-15): 2296# article 5 [of the 1911 decree; Deckers's translation] ...: 2297# These dispositions shall enter into force at the instant at which, 2298# according to the 2nd article, the civil day January 1, 1912 begins, 2299# all clocks therefore having to be advanced or set back correspondingly ... 2300 2301# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2302# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (1999-01-30): 2303# DSH writes in their history that Decreto 1469 of 1915-03-30 established 2304# summer time and that, "despite" this, the change to the clocks was not done 2305# every year, depending on what Spain did, because of railroad schedules. 2306# In fact, that decree had nothing to do with DST; rather, it regulated the 2307# sending of time signals. But we do see linkage to Spain in the 1920s below. 2308# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/1469-1915-285721 2309# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/285721 2310# 2311# According to the Observatory, standard time was first advanced by Decreto 2312# 2433 of 1916-06-09 and restored by Decreto 2712 of 1916-10-28. While Whitman 2313# gives 1916-10-31 for the latter transition, Shanks & Pottenger agrees more 2314# closely with the decree, which stated that its provision "will start sixty 2315# minutes after the end of 31 October, according to the current time," i.e., 2316# 01:00 on 1 November. 2317# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/2433-1916-267192 2318# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/267192 2319# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/2712-1916-590937 2320# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/590937 2321Rule Port 1916 only - Jun 17 23:00 1:00 S 2322Rule Port 1916 only - Nov 1 1:00 0 - 2323# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2324# Article 7 of Decreto 2922 of 1916-12-30 stated that "the legal time will be 2325# advanced by sixty minutes from 1 March to 31 October." Per Article 15, this 2326# came into force from 1917-01-01. Just before the first fall back, Decreto 2327# 3446 of 1917-10-11 changed the annual end date to 14 October. 2328# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/2922-1916-261894 2329# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/261894 2330# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/3446-1917-495161 2331# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/495161 2332# This annual change was revoked by Decreto 8038 of 1922-02-18. 2333# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/8038-1922-569751 2334# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/569751 2335Rule Port 1917 1921 - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 S 2336Rule Port 1917 1921 - Oct 14 24:00 0 - 2337# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2338# Decreto 9592 of 1924-04-14 noted that "France maintains the advance of legal 2339# time in the summer and Spain has now adopted it for the first time" and 2340# considered "that the absence of similar measures would cause serious 2341# difficulties for international rail connections with consequent repercussions 2342# on domestic service hours..." along with "inconvenient analogues...for postal 2343# and telegraph services." Summer time would be in effect from 17 April to 4 2344# October, with the spring change explicitly specified by bringing clocks 2345# forward from 16 April 23:00. 2346# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/9592-1924-652133 2347# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/652133 2348# 2349# Decreto 10700, issued 1925-04-16, noted that Spain had not continued summer 2350# time, declared that "the current legal hour prior to 17 April remains 2351# unchanged from that day forward", and revoked legislation to the contrary, 2352# just a day before summer time would have otherwise resumed. 2353# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto/10700-1925-437826 2354# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/437826 2355Rule Port 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00s 1:00 S 2356Rule Port 1924 only - Oct 4 23:00s 0 - 2357Rule Port 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S 2358Rule Port 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 2359Rule Port 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S 2360Rule Port 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S 2361Rule Port 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S 2362Rule Port 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S 2363# Whitman gives 1931 Oct 8; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2364Rule Port 1931 1932 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 2365Rule Port 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S 2366Rule Port 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S 2367# Whitman gives 1934 Oct 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2368# Note: The 1935 law specified 10-06 00:00, not 10-05 24:00, but the following 2369# is equivalent and more succinct. 2370Rule Port 1934 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 2371# Shanks & Pottenger give 1935 Apr 30; go with Whitman. 2372Rule Port 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S 2373Rule Port 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S 2374# Whitman gives 1937 Apr 2; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2375Rule Port 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S 2376Rule Port 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S 2377Rule Port 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S 2378# Whitman gives 1939 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2379Rule Port 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - 2380# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2381# Portaria 9465 of 1940-02-17 advanced clocks from Saturday 1940-02-24 23:00. 2382# The clocks were restored by Portaria 9658, issued Monday 1940-10-07, 2383# effective from 24:00 that very night, which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger; 2384# Whitman gives Saturday 1940-10-05 instead. 2385# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/portaria/9465-1940-189096 2386# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/189096 2387# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/portaria/9658-1940-196729 2388# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/196729 2389Rule Port 1940 only - Feb 24 23:00s 1:00 S 2390Rule Port 1940 only - Oct 7 23:00s 0 - 2391Rule Port 1941 only - Apr 5 23:00s 1:00 S 2392Rule Port 1941 only - Oct 5 23:00s 0 - 2393Rule Port 1942 1945 - Mar Sat>=8 23:00s 1:00 S 2394Rule Port 1942 only - Apr 25 22:00s 2:00 M # Midsummer 2395Rule Port 1942 only - Aug 15 22:00s 1:00 S 2396Rule Port 1942 1945 - Oct Sat>=24 23:00s 0 - 2397Rule Port 1943 only - Apr 17 22:00s 2:00 M 2398Rule Port 1943 1945 - Aug Sat>=25 22:00s 1:00 S 2399Rule Port 1944 1945 - Apr Sat>=21 22:00s 2:00 M 2400Rule Port 1946 only - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s 1:00 S 2401Rule Port 1946 only - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - 2402# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Alois Treindl (2021-02-07): 2403# The Astronomical Observatory of Lisbon cites Portaria 11767 of 1947-03-28 for 2404# 1947 and Portaria 12286 of 1948-02-19 for 1948. 2405# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/portaria/11767-1947-414787 2406# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/414787 2407# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/portaria/12286-1948-152953 2408# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/152953 2409# 2410# Although the latter ordinance explicitly had the 1948-10-03 transition 2411# scheduled for 02:00 rather than 03:00 as had been used in 1947, Decreto-Lei 2412# 37048 of 1948-09-07 recognized "that it is advisable to definitely set...the 2413# 'summer time' regime", and fixed the fall transition at 03:00 moving forward. 2414# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-lei/37048-1948-373810 2415# https://dre.pt/application/conteudo/373810 2416# While the Observatory only cites this act for 1949-1965 and not for 1948, it 2417# does not appear to have had any provision delaying its effect, so assume that 2418# it overrode the prior ordinance for 1948-10-03. 2419# 2420# Whitman says DST was not observed in 1950 and gives Oct lastSun for 1952 on. 2421# The Observatory, however, agrees with Shanks & Pottenger that 1950 was not an 2422# exception and that Oct Sun>=1 was maintained through 1965. 2423Rule Port 1947 1966 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S 2424Rule Port 1947 1965 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 2425# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2426# Decreto-Lei 47233 of 1966-10-01 considered that the "duality" in time was 2427# "the cause of serious disturbances" and noted that "the countries with which 2428# we have the most frequent contacts...have already adopted" a solution 2429# coinciding with the extant "summer time". It established that the former 2430# "summer time" would apply year-round on the mainland and adjacent islands 2431# with immediate effect, as the fall back would have otherwise occurred later 2432# that evening. 2433# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-lei/47233-1966-293729 2434# Model this by changing zones without changing clocks at the 2435# previously-appointed fall back time. 2436# 2437# Decreto-Lei 309/76 of 1976-04-27 acknowledged that those international 2438# contacts had returned to adopting seasonal times, and considered that the 2439# year-round advancement "entails considerable sacrifices for the vast majority 2440# of the working population during the winter months", including morning 2441# visibility concerns for schoolchildren. It specified, beginning 1976-09-26 2442# 01:00, an annual return to UT+00 on the mainland from 00:00 UT on Sep lastSun 2443# to 00:00 UT on Mar lastSun (unless the latter date fell on Easter, in which 2444# case it was to be brought forward to the preceding Sunday). It also assigned 2445# the Permanent Time Commission to study and propose revisions for the Azores 2446# and Madeira, neither of which resumed DST until 1982 (as described further 2447# below). 2448# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-lei/309-1976-502063 2449Rule Port 1976 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - 2450Rule Port 1977 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S 2451Rule Port 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 2452# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2453# Beginning in 1978, rather than triggering the Easter rule of the 1976 decree 2454# (Easter fell on 1978-03-26), Article 5 was used instead, which allowed DST 2455# dates to be changed by order of the Minister of Education and Scientific 2456# Research, upon consultation with the Permanent Time Commission, "whenever 2457# considered convenient." As such, a series of one-off ordinances were 2458# promulgated for the mainland in 1978 through 1980, after which the 1976 2459# decree naturally came back into force from 1981. 2460Rule Port 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S 2461Rule Port 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 - 2462Rule Port 1979 1980 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 2463Rule Port 1981 1986 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S 2464Rule Port 1981 1985 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 2465# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2466# Decreto-Lei 44-B/86 of 1986-03-07 switched mainland Portugal's transition 2467# times from 0:00s to 1:00u to harmonize with the EEC from 1986-03-30. 2468# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-lei/44-b-1986-628280 2469# (Transitions of 1:00s as previously reported and used by the W-Eur rules, 2470# though equivalent, appear to have been fiction here.) Madeira continued to 2471# use 0:00s for spring 1986 before joining with the mainland using 1:00u in the 2472# fall; meanwhile, in the Azores the two were equivalent, so the law specifying 2473# 0:00s wasn't touched until 1992. (See below for more on the islands.) 2474# 2475# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): 2476# Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone 2477# (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. 2478# 2479# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve 2480# that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. 2481# The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. 2482# 2483# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12): 2484# IATA SSIM (1991-09) reports several 1991-09 and 1992-09 transitions 2485# at 02:00u, not 01:00u. Assume that these are typos. 2486# 2487# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2488 #STDOFF -0:36:44.68 2489Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:45 - LMT 1884 2490 -0:36:45 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 0:00u # Lisbon MT 2491 0:00 Port WE%sT 1966 Oct 2 2:00s 2492 1:00 - CET 1976 Sep 26 1:00 2493 0:00 Port WE%sT 1986 2494 0:00 EU WE%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00u 2495 1:00 EU CE%sT 1996 Mar 31 1:00u 2496 0:00 EU WE%sT 2497 2498# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2499# For the Azores and Madeira, legislation was followed from the laws currently 2500# in force as listed at: 2501# https://oal.ul.pt/hora-legal/legislacao/ 2502# working backward through references of revocation and abrogation to 2503# Decreto-Lei 47233 of 1966-10-01, the last time DST was abolished across the 2504# mainland and its adjacent islands. Because of that reference, it is 2505# therefore assumed that DST rules in the islands prior to 1966 were like that 2506# of the mainland, though most legislation of the time didn't explicitly 2507# specify DST practices for the islands. 2508Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada 2509 -1:54:32 - HMT 1912 Jan 1 2:00u # Horta MT 2510# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support %z. 2511 -2:00 Port %z 1966 Oct 2 2:00s 2512# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2513# While Decreto-Lei 309/76 of 1976-04-27 reintroduced DST on the mainland by 2514# falling back on 1976-09-26, it assigned the Permanent Time Commission to 2515# study and propose revisions for the Azores and Madeira. Decreto Regional 2516# 9/77/A of 1977-05-17 affirmed that "the legal time remained unchanged in the 2517# Azores" at UT-1, and would remain there year-round. 2518# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-regional/9-1977-252066 2519# 2520# Decreto Regional 2/82/A, published 1982-03-02, adopted DST in the same 2521# fashion as the mainland used at the time. 2522# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-regional/2-1982-599965 2523# Though transitions in the Azores officially remained at 0:00s through 1992, 2524# this was equivalent to the EU-style 1:00u adopted by the mainland in 1986, so 2525# model it as such. 2526 -1:00 - %z 1982 Mar 28 0:00s 2527 -1:00 Port %z 1986 2528# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking %z; see ziguard.awk. 2529# -2:00 Port -02/-01 1942 Apr 25 22:00s 2530# -2:00 Port +00 1942 Aug 15 22:00s 2531# -2:00 Port -02/-01 1943 Apr 17 22:00s 2532# -2:00 Port +00 1943 Aug 28 22:00s 2533# -2:00 Port -02/-01 1944 Apr 22 22:00s 2534# -2:00 Port +00 1944 Aug 26 22:00s 2535# -2:00 Port -02/-01 1945 Apr 21 22:00s 2536# -2:00 Port +00 1945 Aug 25 22:00s 2537# -2:00 Port -02/-01 1966 Oct 2 2:00s 2538# -1:00 - -01 1982 Mar 28 0:00s 2539# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1986 2540# End of rearguard section. 2541# 2542# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-12): 2543# IATA SSIM (1991/1992) reports that the Azores were at -1:00. 2544# IATA SSIM (1993-02) says +0:00; later issues (through 1996-09) say -1:00. 2545# 2546# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2547# After mainland Portugal had shifted forward an hour from 1992-09-27, Decreto 2548# Legislativo Regional 29/92/A of 1992-12-23 sought to "reduce the time 2549# difference" by shifting the Azores forward as well from 1992-12-27. Just six 2550# months later, this was revoked by Decreto Legislativo Regional 9/93/A, citing 2551# "major changes in work habits and way of life." Though the revocation didn't 2552# give a transition time, it was signed Wednesday 1993-06-16; assume it took 2553# effect later that evening, and that an EU-style spring forward (to +01) was 2554# still observed in the interim on 1993-03-28. 2555# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-legislativo-regional/29-1992-621553 2556# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-legislativo-regional/9-1993-389633 2557 -1:00 EU %z 1992 Dec 27 1:00s 2558 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Jun 17 1:00u 2559 -1:00 EU %z 2560 2561Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal 2562 -1:07:36 - FMT 1912 Jan 1 1:00u # Funchal MT 2563# Vanguard section, for zic and other parsers that support %z. 2564 -1:00 Port %z 1966 Oct 2 2:00s 2565# Rearguard section, for parsers lacking %z; see ziguard.awk. 2566# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1942 Apr 25 22:00s 2567# -1:00 Port +01 1942 Aug 15 22:00s 2568# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1943 Apr 17 22:00s 2569# -1:00 Port +01 1943 Aug 28 22:00s 2570# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1944 Apr 22 22:00s 2571# -1:00 Port +01 1944 Aug 26 22:00s 2572# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1945 Apr 21 22:00s 2573# -1:00 Port +01 1945 Aug 25 22:00s 2574# -1:00 Port -01/+00 1966 Oct 2 2:00s 2575# End of rearguard section. 2576# 2577# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): 2578# Decreto Regional 5/82/M, published 1982-04-03, established DST transitions at 2579# 0:00u, which for Madeira is equivalent to the mainland's rules (0:00s) at the 2580# time. It came into effect the day following its publication, Sunday 2581# 1982-04-04, thus resuming Madeira's DST practice about a week later than the 2582# mainland and the Azores. 2583# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-regional/5-1982-608273 2584# 2585# Decreto Legislativo Regional 18/86/M, published 1986-10-01, adopted EU-style 2586# rules (1:00u) and entered into immediate force after being signed on 2587# 1986-07-31. 2588# https://dre.pt/dr/detalhe/decreto-legislativo-regional/18-1986-221705 2589 0:00 - WET 1982 Apr 4 2590 0:00 Port WE%sT 1986 Jul 31 2591 0:00 EU WE%sT 2592 2593# Romania 2594# 2595# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-07): 2596# Nine O'clock <http://www.nineoclock.ro/POL/1778pol.html> 2597# (1998-10-23) reports that the switch occurred at 2598# 04:00 local time in fall 1998. For lack of better info, 2599# assume that Romania and Moldova switched to EU rules in 1997, 2600# the same year as Bulgaria. 2601# 2602# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2603Rule Romania 1932 only - May 21 0:00s 1:00 S 2604Rule Romania 1932 1939 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00s 0 - 2605Rule Romania 1933 1939 - Apr Sun>=2 0:00s 1:00 S 2606Rule Romania 1979 only - May 27 0:00 1:00 S 2607Rule Romania 1979 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 2608Rule Romania 1980 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S 2609Rule Romania 1980 only - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - 2610Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 S 2611Rule Romania 1991 1993 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - 2612# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2613Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct 2614 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT 2615 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00s 2616 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991 2617 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1994 2618 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997 2619 2:00 EU EE%sT 2620 2621 2622# Russia 2623 2624# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15): 2625# Based on last Russian Government Decree No. 725 on August 31, 2011 2626# (Government document 2627# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ 2628# in Russian) 2629# there are few corrections have to be made for some Russian time zones... 2630# All updated Russian Time Zones were placed in table and translated to English 2631# by WorldTimeZone.com at the link below: 2632# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm 2633 2634# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27): 2635# Scans of [Decree No. 23 of January 8, 1992] are available at: 2636# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966 2637# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian). 2638 2639# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): 2640# Regarding the instant when clocks in time-zone-shifting parts of Russia 2641# changed in September 2011: 2642# 2643# One source is 2644# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/ 2645# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31, 2646# 2011 No. 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information. 2647# 2648# Another source is 2649# https://rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html 2650# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the 2651# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also 2652# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on: 2653# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue No. 5573 September 6, 2011" but which 2654# does not contain any "effective date" information. 2655# 2656# Another source is 2657# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7 2658# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution No. 725 of August 31, 2011... 2659# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" 2660# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011. 2661# 2662# The Wikipedia article refers to 2663# http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896 2664# which seems to copy the text of the government.ru page. 2665# 2666# Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's 2667# "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" 2668# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to 2669# get September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias 2670# Conradi notes). 2671# 2672# None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks. 2673# 2674# Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s. 2675 2676# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-01): 2677# According to the Russian news (ITAR-TASS News Agency) 2678# http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/738562 2679# the State Duma has approved ... the draft bill on returning to 2680# winter time standard and return Russia 11 time zones. The new 2681# regulations will come into effect on October 26, 2014 at 02:00 ... 2682# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=431985-6&02 2683# Here is a link where we put together table (based on approved Bill N 2684# 431985-6) with proposed 11 Russian time zones and corresponding 2685# areas/cities/administrative centers in the Russian Federation (in English): 2686# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia65.html 2687# 2688# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-22): 2689# Putin signed the Federal Law 431985-6 ... (in Russian) 2690# http://itar-tass.com/obschestvo/1333711 2691# http://www.pravo.gov.ru:8080/page.aspx?111660 2692# http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/46279 2693# From October 26, 2014 the new Russian time zone map will look like this: 2694# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia-map-2014-07.html 2695 2696# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2697# Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, 2698# are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks & Pottenger, 2699# except we follow Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat 2700# 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. 2701# 2702# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): 2703# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! 2704# I do not know why they have decided to make this change; 2705# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching 2706# so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. 2707# 2708# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): 2709# 'MSK' and 'MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with 2710# UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... 2711# The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor 2712# (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. 2713# 2714# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): 2715# According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from 2716# Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... 2717# still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. 2718# 2719# For Grozny, Chechnya, we have the following story from 2720# John Daniszewski, "Scavengers in the Rubble", Los Angeles Times (2001-02-07): 2721# News - often false - is spread by word of mouth. A rumor that it was 2722# time to move the clocks back put this whole city out of sync with 2723# the rest of Russia for two weeks - even soldiers stationed here began 2724# enforcing curfew at the wrong time. 2725# 2726# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05): 2727# There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in 2728# UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade. I start with the 2729# SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan 2730# until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok 2731# since September 1997.... Although the Kuril Islands are 2732# administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have 2733# remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan. 2734 2735# From Marat Nigametzianov (2018-07-16): 2736# this is link to order from 1956 about timezone in USSR 2737# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2011/11/novyie-granitsyi-chasovyih-poyasov-v-sssr/ 2738# 2739# From Paul Eggert (2018-07-16): 2740# Perhaps someone could translate the above-mentioned link and use it 2741# to correct our data for the ex-Soviet Union. It cites the following: 2742# «Поясное время и новые границы часовых поясов» / сост. П.Н. Долгов, 2743# отв. ред. Г.Д. Бурдун - М: Комитет стандартов, мер и измерительных 2744# приборов при Совете Министров СССР, Междуведомственная комиссия 2745# единой службы времени, 1956 г. 2746# This book looks like it would be a helpful resource for the Soviet 2747# Union through 1956. Although a copy was in the Scientific Library 2748# of Tomsk State University, I have not been able to track down a copy nearby. 2749# 2750# From Stepan Golosunov (2018-07-21): 2751# http://astro.uni-altai.ru/~orion/blog/2015/05/center-reforma-ischisleniya-vremeni-br-na-territorii-sssr-v-1957-godu-center/ 2752# says that the 1956 decision to change time belts' borders was not 2753# implemented as planned in 1956 and the change happened in 1957. 2754# There is also the problem that actual time zones were different from 2755# the official time belts (and from many time belts' maps) as there were 2756# numerous exceptions to application of time belt rules. For example, 2757# https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Московское_время#Перемещение_границы_применения_московского_времени_на_восток 2758# says that by 1962 there were many regions in the 3rd time belt that 2759# were on Moscow time, referring to a 1962 map. By 1989 number of such 2760# exceptions grew considerably. 2761 2762# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): 2763# The comments detailing the coverage of each Russian zone are meant to assist 2764# with maintenance only and represent our best guesses as to which regions 2765# are covered by each zone. They are not meant to be taken as an authoritative 2766# listing. The region codes listed come from 2767# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Federal_subjects_of_Russia&oldid=611810498 2768# and are used for convenience only; no guarantees are made regarding their 2769# future stability. ISO 3166-2:RU codes are also listed for first-level 2770# divisions where available. 2771 2772# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 2773# Europe/Kaliningrad covers... 2774# 39 RU-KGD Kaliningrad Oblast 2775 2776# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 2777# Although Shanks lists 1945-01-01 as the date for transition from 2778# +01/+02 to +02/+03, more likely this is a placeholder. Guess that 2779# the transition occurred at 1945-04-10 00:00, which is about when 2780# Königsberg surrendered to Soviet troops. (Thanks to Alois Treindl.) 2781 2782# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 2783# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 2784 2785# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): 2786# http://www.rgo.ru/ru/kaliningradskoe-oblastnoe-otdelenie/ob-otdelenii/publikacii/kak-nam-zhilos-bez-letnego-vremeni 2787# confirms that the 1989 change to Moscow-1 was implemented. 2788# (The article, though, is misattributed to 1990 while saying that 2789# summer->winter transition would be done on the 24 of September. But 2790# 1990-09-24 was Monday, while 1989-09-24 was Sunday as expected.) 2791# ... 2792# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 2793# says that Kaliningrad switched to Moscow-1 on 1989-03-26, avoided 2794# at the last moment switch to Moscow-1 on 1991-03-31, switched to 2795# Moscow on 1991-11-03, switched to Moscow-1 on 1992-01-19. 2796 2797Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 2798 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 10 2799 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1946 Apr 7 2800 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 2801 2:00 Russia EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 2802 3:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2803 2:00 - EET 2804 2805 2806# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-21), per Tim Parenti (2014-07-03) and 2807# Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 2808# Europe/Moscow covers... 2809# 01 RU-AD Adygea, Republic of 2810# 05 RU-DA Dagestan, Republic of 2811# 06 RU-IN Ingushetia, Republic of 2812# 07 RU-KB Kabardino-Balkar Republic 2813# 08 RU-KL Kalmykia, Republic of 2814# 09 RU-KC Karachay-Cherkess Republic 2815# 10 RU-KR Karelia, Republic of 2816# 11 RU-KO Komi Republic 2817# 12 RU-ME Mari El Republic 2818# 13 RU-MO Mordovia, Republic of 2819# 15 RU-SE North Ossetia-Alania, Republic of 2820# 16 RU-TA Tatarstan, Republic of 2821# 20 RU-CE Chechen Republic 2822# 21 RU-CU Chuvash Republic 2823# 23 RU-KDA Krasnodar Krai 2824# 26 RU-STA Stavropol Krai 2825# 29 RU-ARK Arkhangelsk Oblast 2826# 31 RU-BEL Belgorod Oblast 2827# 32 RU-BRY Bryansk Oblast 2828# 33 RU-VLA Vladimir Oblast 2829# 35 RU-VLG Vologda Oblast 2830# 36 RU-VOR Voronezh Oblast 2831# 37 RU-IVA Ivanovo Oblast 2832# 40 RU-KLU Kaluga Oblast 2833# 44 RU-KOS Kostroma Oblast 2834# 46 RU-KRS Kursk Oblast 2835# 47 RU-LEN Leningrad Oblast 2836# 48 RU-LIP Lipetsk Oblast 2837# 50 RU-MOS Moscow Oblast 2838# 51 RU-MUR Murmansk Oblast 2839# 52 RU-NIZ Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 2840# 53 RU-NGR Novgorod Oblast 2841# 57 RU-ORL Oryol Oblast 2842# 58 RU-PNZ Penza Oblast 2843# 60 RU-PSK Pskov Oblast 2844# 61 RU-ROS Rostov Oblast 2845# 62 RU-RYA Ryazan Oblast 2846# 67 RU-SMO Smolensk Oblast 2847# 68 RU-TAM Tambov Oblast 2848# 69 RU-TVE Tver Oblast 2849# 71 RU-TUL Tula Oblast 2850# 76 RU-YAR Yaroslavl Oblast 2851# 77 RU-MOW Moscow 2852# 78 RU-SPE Saint Petersburg 2853# 83 RU-NEN Nenets Autonomous Okrug 2854 2855# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-23): 2856# The Soviets switched to UT-based time in 1919. Decree No. 59 2857# (1919-02-08) http://istmat.info/node/35567 established UT-based time 2858# zones, and Decree No. 147 (1919-03-29) http://istmat.info/node/35854 2859# specified a transition date of 1919-07-01, apparently at 00:00 UT. 2860# No doubt only the Soviet-controlled regions switched on that date; 2861# later transitions to UT-based time in other parts of Russia are 2862# taken from what appear to be guesses by Shanks. 2863# (Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for pointers to the decrees.) 2864 2865# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): 2866# 11. Regions-violators, 1981-1982. 2867# Wikipedia refers to 2868# http://maps.monetonos.ru/maps/raznoe/Old_Maps/Old_Maps/Articles/022/3_1981.html 2869# http://besp.narod.ru/nauka_1981_3.htm 2870# 2871# The second link provides two articles scanned from the Nauka i Zhizn 2872# magazine No. 3, 1981 and a scan of the short article attributed to 2873# the Trud newspaper from February 1982. The first link provides the 2874# same Nauka i Zhizn articles converted to the text form (but misses 2875# time belt changes map). 2876# 2877# The second Nauka i Zhizn article says that in addition to 2878# introduction of summer time on 1981-04-01 there are some time belt 2879# border changes on 1981-10-01, mostly affecting Nenets Autonomous 2880# Okrug, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Yakutia, Magadan Oblast and Chukotka 2881# according to the provided map (colored one). In addition to that 2882# "time violators" (regions which were not using rules of the time 2883# belts in which they were located) would not be moving off the DST on 2884# 1981-10-01 to restore the decree time usage. (Komi ASSR was 2885# supposed to repeat that move in October 1982 to account for the 2 2886# hour difference.) Map depicting "time violators" before 1981-10-01 2887# is also provided. 2888# 2889# The article from Trud says that 1981-10-01 changes caused problems 2890# and some territories would be moved to pre-1981-10-01 time by not 2891# moving to summer time on 1982-04-01. Namely: Dagestan, 2892# Kabardino-Balkar, Kalmyk, Komi, Mari, Mordovian, North Ossetian, 2893# Tatar, Chechen-Ingush and Chuvash ASSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol 2894# krais, Arkhangelsk, Vladimir, Vologda, Voronezh, Gorky, Ivanovo, 2895# Kostroma, Lipetsk, Penza, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tyumen and 2896# Yaroslavl oblasts, Nenets and Evenk autonomous okrugs, Khatangsky 2897# district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. As a result Evenk Autonomous 2898# Okrug and Khatangsky district of Taymyr Autonomous Okrug would end 2899# up on Moscow+4, Tyumen Oblast on Moscow+2 and the rest on Moscow 2900# time. 2901# 2902# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt 2903# attributes the 1982 changes to the Act of the Council of Ministers 2904# of the USSR No. 126 from 18.02.1982. 1980-925.txt also adds 2905# Udmurtia to the list of affected territories and lists Khatangsky 2906# district separately from Taymyr Autonomous Okrug. Probably erroneously. 2907# 2908# The affected territories are currently listed under Europe/Moscow, 2909# Asia/Yekaterinburg and Asia/Krasnoyarsk. 2910# 2911# 12. Udmurtia 2912# The fact that Udmurtia is depicted as a violator in the Nauka i 2913# Zhizn article hints at Izhevsk being on different time from 2914# Kuybyshev before 1981-10-01. Udmurtia is not mentioned in the 1989 act. 2915# http://astrozet.net/files/Zones/DOC/RU/1980-925.txt 2916# implies Udmurtia was on Moscow time after 1982-04-01. 2917# Wikipedia implies Udmurtia being on Moscow+1 until 1991. 2918# 2919# ... 2920# 2921# All Russian zones are supposed to have by default a -1 change at 2922# 1991-03-31 2:00 (cancellation of the decree time in the USSR) and a +1 2923# change at 1992-01-19 2:00 (restoration of the decree time in Russia). 2924# 2925# There were some exceptions, though. 2926# Wikipedia says newspapers listed Astrakhan, Saratov, Kirov, Volgograd, 2927# Izhevsk, Grozny, Kazan and Samara as such exceptions for the 1992 2928# change. (Different newspapers providing different lists. And some 2929# lists found in the internet are quite wild.) 2930# 2931# And apparently some exceptions were reverted in the last moment. 2932# http://www.kaliningradka.ru/site_pc/cherez/index.php?ELEMENT_ID=40091 2933# says that Kaliningrad decided not to be an exception 2 days before the 2934# 1991-03-31 switch and one person at 2935# https://izhevsk.ru/forum_light_message/50/682597-m8369040.html 2936# says he remembers that Samara opted out of the 1992-01-19 exception 2937# 2 days before the switch. 2938# 2939# From Alois Treindl (2022-02-15): 2940# the Russian wikipedia page 2941# https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Московское_время#Перемещение_границы_применения_московского_времени_на_восток 2942# contains the sentence (in Google translation) "In the autumn of 2943# 1981, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo, Vladimir, Ryazan, 2944# Lipetsk, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnodar and regions to the east 2945# of those named (about 30 in total) parted ways with Moscow time. 2946# However, the convenience of common time with Moscow turned out to be 2947# decisive - in 1982, these regions again switched to Moscow time." 2948# Shanks International atlas has similar information, and also the 2949# Russian book Zaitsev A., Kutalev D. A new astrologer's reference 2950# book. Coordinates of cities and time corrections, - The World of 2951# Urania, 2012 (Russian: Зайцев А., Куталёв Д., Новый справочник 2952# астролога. Координаты городов и временные поправки). 2953# To me it seems that an extra zone is needed, which starts with LMT 2954# util 1919, later follows Moscow since 1930, but deviates from it 2955# between 1 October 1981 until 1 April 1982. 2956# 2957# 2958# From Paul Eggert (2022-02-15): 2959# Given the above, we appear to be missing some Zone entries for the 2960# chaotic early 1980s in Russia. It's not clear what these entries 2961# should be. For now, sweep this under the rug and just document the 2962# time in Moscow. 2963 2964# From Vladimir Karpinsky (2014-07-08): 2965# LMT in Moscow (before Jul 3, 1916) is 2:30:17, that was defined by Moscow 2966# Observatory (coordinates: 55° 45' 29.70", 37° 34' 05.30").... 2967# LMT in Moscow since Jul 3, 1916 is 2:31:01 as a result of new standard. 2968# (The info is from the book by Byalokoz ... p. 18.) 2969# The time in St. Petersburg as capital of Russia was defined by 2970# Pulkov observatory, near St. Petersburg. In 1916 LMT Moscow 2971# was synchronized with LMT St. Petersburg (+30 minutes), (Pulkov observatory 2972# coordinates: 59° 46' 18.70", 30° 19' 40.70") so 30° 19' 40.70" > 2973# 2h01m18.7s = 2:01:19. LMT Moscow = LMT St.Petersburg + 30m 2:01:19 + 0:30 = 2974# 2:31:19 ... 2975# 2976# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08): 2977# Milne does not list Moscow, but suggests that its time might be listed in 2978# Résumés mensuels et annuels des observations météorologiques (1895). 2979# Presumably this is OCLC 85825704, a journal published with parallel text in 2980# Russian and French. This source has not been located; go with Karpinsky. 2981 2982Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:17 - LMT 1880 2983 2:30:17 - MMT 1916 Jul 3 # Moscow Mean Time 2984 2:31:19 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 0:00u 2985 3:00 Russia %s 1921 Oct 2986 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1922 Oct 2987 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 2988 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2989 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 2990 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 2991 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 2992 3:00 - MSK 2993 2994 2995# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-06): 2996# Europe/Simferopol covers Crimea. 2997 2998Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 2999 2:16 - SMT 1924 May 2 # Simferopol Mean T 3000 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3001 3:00 - MSK 1941 Nov 3002 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Apr 13 3003 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3004 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 3005 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 20 3006# Central Crimea used Moscow time 1994/1997. 3007# 3008# From Paul Eggert (2022-07-21): 3009# The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reported that central Crimea switched 3010# from Kyiv to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. 3011# Shanks (1999) says "date of change uncertain", but implies that it happened 3012# sometime between the 1994 DST switches. Shanks & Pottenger simply say 3013# 1994-09-25 03:00, but that can't be right. For now, guess it 3014# changed in May. This change evidently didn't last long; see below. 3015 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1994 May 3016# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also said that Kerch is still like Kyiv. 3017 3:00 C-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s 3018 3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s 3019# IATA SSIM (1997-09) said Crimea switched to EET/EEST. 3020# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks. 3021 3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u 3022# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-03-17): 3023# time change at 2:00 (2am) on March 30, 2014 3024# https://vz.ru/news/2014/3/17/677464.html 3025# From Tim Parenti (2022-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2014-03-30): 3026# The clocks at the railway station in Simferopol were put forward from 22:00 3027# to 24:00 the previous day in a "symbolic ceremony"; however, per 3028# contemporaneous news reports, "ordinary Crimeans [made] the daylight savings 3029# time switch at 2am" on Sunday. 3030# https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/crimea-to-set-clocks-to-russia-time-114033000014_1.html 3031# https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-crimea-time/crimea-switches-to-moscow-time-amid-incorporation-frenzy-idUKBREA2S0LT20140329 3032# https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-26806583 3033 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 2:00 3034 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3035 3:00 - MSK 3036 3037 3038# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3039# Europe/Astrakhan covers: 3040# 30 RU-AST Astrakhan Oblast 3041# 3042# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 3043 3044# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-12): 3045# On February 10, 2016 Astrakhan Oblast got approval by the Federation 3046# Council to change its time zone to UTC+4 (from current UTC+3 Moscow time).... 3047# This Federal Law shall enter into force on 27 March 2016 at 02:00. 3048# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): 3049# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201602150056 3050 3051Zone Europe/Astrakhan 3:12:12 - LMT 1924 May 3052 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3053 4:00 Russia %z 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3054 3:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3055 4:00 - %z 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3056 3:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3057 4:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3058 3:00 - %z 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 3059 4:00 - %z 3060 3061# From Paul Eggert (2016-11-11): 3062# Europe/Volgograd covers: 3063# 34 RU-VGG Volgograd Oblast 3064# The 1988 transition is from USSR act No. 5 (1988-01-04). 3065 3066# From Alexander Fetisov (2018-09-20): 3067# Volgograd region in southern Russia (Europe/Volgograd) change 3068# timezone from UTC+3 to UTC+4 from 28oct2018. 3069# http://sozd.parliament.gov.ru/bill/452878-7 3070# 3071# From Stepan Golosunov (2018-10-11): 3072# The law has been published today on 3073# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201810110037 3074 3075# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2020-11-27): 3076# The State Duma approved (Nov 24, 2020) the transition of the Volgograd 3077# region to the Moscow time zone.... 3078# https://sozd.duma.gov.ru/bill/1012130-7 3079# 3080# From Stepan Golosunov (2020-12-05): 3081# Currently proposed text for the second reading (expected on December 8) ... 3082# changes the date to December 27. https://v1.ru/text/gorod/2020/12/04/69601031/ 3083# 3084# From Stepan Golosunov (2020-12-22): 3085# The law was published today on 3086# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001202012220002 3087 3088Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3 3089 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3090 4:00 - %z 1961 Nov 11 3091 4:00 Russia %z 1988 Mar 27 2:00s 3092 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3093 4:00 - %z 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3094 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3095 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3096 3:00 - MSK 2018 Oct 28 2:00s 3097 4:00 - %z 2020 Dec 27 2:00s 3098 3:00 - MSK 3099 3100# From Paul Eggert (2016-11-11): 3101# Europe/Saratov covers: 3102# 64 RU-SAR Saratov Oblast 3103 3104# From Yuri Konotopov (2016-11-11): 3105# Dec 4, 2016 02:00 UTC+3.... Saratov Region's local time will be ... UTC+4. 3106# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-11): 3107# ... Byalokoz listed Saratov on 03:04:18. 3108# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-11-22): 3109# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201611220031 3110 3111Zone Europe/Saratov 3:04:18 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u 3112 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3113 4:00 Russia %z 1988 Mar 27 2:00s 3114 3:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3115 4:00 - %z 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3116 3:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3117 4:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3118 3:00 - %z 2016 Dec 4 2:00s 3119 4:00 - %z 3120 3121# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3122# Europe/Kirov covers: 3123# 43 RU-KIR Kirov Oblast 3124# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 3125# 3126Zone Europe/Kirov 3:18:48 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u 3127 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3128 4:00 Russia %z 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3129 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3130 4:00 - %z 1992 Mar 29 2:00s 3131 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3132 4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3133 3:00 - MSK 3134 3135# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3136# Europe/Samara covers... 3137# 18 RU-UD Udmurt Republic 3138# 63 RU-SAM Samara Oblast 3139 3140# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3141# Byalokoz 1919 says Samara was 3:20:20. 3142# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 3143 3144Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:20 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u 3145 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3146 4:00 - %z 1935 Jan 27 3147 4:00 Russia %z 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3148 3:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3149 2:00 Russia %z 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 3150 3:00 - %z 1991 Oct 20 3:00 3151 4:00 Russia %z 2010 Mar 28 2:00s 3152 3:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3153 4:00 - %z 3154 3155# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3156# Europe/Ulyanovsk covers: 3157# 73 RU-ULY Ulyanovsk Oblast 3158 3159# The 1989 transition is from USSR act No. 227 (1989-03-14). 3160 3161# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-02-17): 3162# Ulyanovsk ... on their way to change time zones by March 27, 2016 at 2am. 3163# Ulyanovsk Oblast ... from MSK to MSK+1 (UTC+3 to UTC+4) ... 3164# 920582-6 ... 02/17/2016 The State Duma passed the bill in the first reading. 3165# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): 3166# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090051 3167 3168Zone Europe/Ulyanovsk 3:13:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 0:00u 3169 3:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3170 4:00 Russia %z 1989 Mar 26 2:00s 3171 3:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3172 2:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3173 3:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3174 4:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3175 3:00 - %z 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 3176 4:00 - %z 3177 3178# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3179# Asia/Yekaterinburg covers... 3180# 02 RU-BA Bashkortostan, Republic of 3181# 90 RU-PER Perm Krai 3182# 45 RU-KGN Kurgan Oblast 3183# 56 RU-ORE Orenburg Oblast 3184# 66 RU-SVE Sverdlovsk Oblast 3185# 72 RU-TYU Tyumen Oblast 3186# 74 RU-CHE Chelyabinsk Oblast 3187# 86 RU-KHM Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra 3188# 89 RU-YAN Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug 3189# 3190# Note: Effective 2005-12-01, (59) Perm Oblast and (81) Komi-Permyak 3191# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (90, RU-PER) Perm Krai. 3192 3193# Milne says Yekaterinburg was 4:02:32.9. 3194# Byalokoz 1919 says its provincial time was based on Perm, at 3:45:05. 3195# Assume it switched on 1916-07-03, the time of the new standard. 3196# The 1919 and 1930 transitions are from Shanks. 3197 3198 #STDOFF 4:02:32.9 3199Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:33 - LMT 1916 Jul 3 3200 3:45:05 - PMT 1919 Jul 15 4:00 3201 4:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3202 5:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3203 4:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3204 5:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3205 6:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3206 5:00 - %z 3207 3208 3209# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3210# Asia/Omsk covers... 3211# 55 RU-OMS Omsk Oblast 3212 3213# Byalokoz 1919 says Omsk was 4:53:30. 3214 3215Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:30 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 3216 5:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3217 6:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3218 5:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3219 6:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3220 7:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3221 6:00 - %z 3222 3223# From Paul Eggert (2016-02-22): 3224# Asia/Barnaul covers: 3225# 04 RU-AL Altai Republic 3226# 22 RU-ALT Altai Krai 3227 3228# Data before 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger. 3229 3230# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-07): 3231# Letter of Bank of Russia from 1995-05-25 3232# http://www.bestpravo.ru/rossijskoje/lj-akty/y3a.htm 3233# suggests that Altai Republic transitioned to Moscow+3 on 3234# 1995-05-28. 3235# 3236# https://regnum.ru/news/society/1957270.html 3237# has some historical data for Altai Krai: 3238# before 1957: west part on UT+6, east on UT+7 3239# after 1957: UT+7 3240# since 1995: UT+6 3241# http://barnaul.rusplt.ru/index/pochemu_altajskij_kraj_okazalsja_v_neprivychnom_chasovom_pojase-17648.html 3242# confirms that and provides more details including 1995-05-28 transition date. 3243 3244# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-02-17): 3245# Altai Krai and Altai Republic on their way to change time zones 3246# by March 27, 2016 at 2am.... 3247# Altai Republic / Gorno-Altaysk MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) ... 3248# Altai Krai / Barnaul MSK+3 to MSK+4 (UTC+6 to UTC+7) 3249# From Matt Johnson (2016-03-09): 3250# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090043 3251# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090038 3252 3253Zone Asia/Barnaul 5:35:00 - LMT 1919 Dec 10 3254 6:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3255 7:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3256 6:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3257 7:00 Russia %z 1995 May 28 3258 6:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3259 7:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3260 6:00 - %z 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 3261 7:00 - %z 3262 3263# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3264# Asia/Novosibirsk covers: 3265# 54 RU-NVS Novosibirsk Oblast 3266 3267# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-05-30): 3268# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(Spravka)?OpenAgent&RN=1085784-6 3269# moves Novosibirsk oblast from UTC+6 to UTC+7. 3270# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-07-04): 3271# The law was signed yesterday and published today on 3272# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201607040064 3273 3274Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 3275 6:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3276 7:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3277 6:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3278 7:00 Russia %z 1993 May 23 # say Shanks & P. 3279 6:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3280 7:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3281 6:00 - %z 2016 Jul 24 2:00s 3282 7:00 - %z 3283 3284# From Paul Eggert (2016-03-18): 3285# Asia/Tomsk covers: 3286# 70 RU-TOM Tomsk Oblast 3287 3288# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-24): 3289# Byalokoz listed Tomsk at 5:39:51. 3290 3291# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): 3292# Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow. 3293 3294# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-03-19): 3295# http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102075743 3296# (fifth time belt being UTC+5+1(decree time) 3297# / UTC+5+1(decree time)+1(summer time)) ... 3298# Note that time belts (numbered from 2 (Moscow) to 12 according to their 3299# GMT/UTC offset and having too many exceptions like regions formally 3300# belonging to one belt but using time from another) were replaced 3301# with time zones in 2011 with different numbering (there was a 3302# 2-hour gap between second and third zones in 2011-2014). 3303 3304# From Stepan Golosunov (2016-04-12): 3305# http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/main.nsf/(SpravkaNew)?OpenAgent&RN=1006865-6 3306# This bill was approved in the first reading today. It moves Tomsk oblast 3307# from UTC+6 to UTC+7 and is supposed to come into effect on 2016-05-29 at 3308# 2:00. The bill needs to be approved in the second and the third readings by 3309# the State Duma, approved by the Federation Council, signed by the President 3310# and published to become a law. Minor changes in the text are to be expected 3311# before the second reading (references need to be updated to account for the 3312# recent changes). 3313# 3314# Judging by the ultra-short one-day amendments period, recent similar laws, 3315# the State Duma schedule and the Federation Council schedule 3316# http://www.duma.gov.ru/legislative/planning/day-shedule/por_vesna_2016/ 3317# http://council.gov.ru/activity/meetings/schedule/63303 3318# I speculate that the final text of the bill will be proposed tomorrow, the 3319# bill will be approved in the second and the third readings on Friday, 3320# approved by the Federation Council on 2016-04-20, signed by the President and 3321# published as a law around 2016-04-26. 3322 3323# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-26): 3324# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604260048 3325 3326Zone Asia/Tomsk 5:39:51 - LMT 1919 Dec 22 3327 6:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3328 7:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3329 6:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3330 7:00 Russia %z 2002 May 1 3:00 3331 6:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3332 7:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3333 6:00 - %z 2016 May 29 2:00s 3334 7:00 - %z 3335 3336 3337# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3338# Asia/Novokuznetsk covers... 3339# 42 RU-KEM Kemerovo Oblast 3340 3341# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-10-13): 3342# Kemerovo oblast' (Kemerovo region) in Russia will change current time zone on 3343# March 28, 2010: 3344# from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700 3345# to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600 3346# 3347# This is according to Government of Russia decree No. 740, on September 3348# 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth 3349# time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600) 3350# 3351# Russian Government web site (Russian language) 3352# http://www.government.ru/content/governmentactivity/rfgovernmentdecisions/archive/2009/09/14/991633.htm 3353# or Russian-English translation by WorldTimeZone.com with reference 3354# map to local region and new Russia Time Zone map after March 28, 2010 3355# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia03.html 3356# 3357# Thus, when Russia will switch to DST on the night of March 28, 2010 3358# Kemerovo region (Kemerovo oblast') will not change the clock. 3359 3360# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-02), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): 3361# The Kemerovo region will remain at UTC+7 through the 2014-10-26 change, thus 3362# realigning itself with KRAT. 3363 3364Zone Asia/Novokuznetsk 5:48:48 - LMT 1924 May 1 3365 6:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3366 7:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3367 6:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3368 7:00 Russia %z 2010 Mar 28 2:00s 3369 6:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3370 7:00 - %z 3371 3372# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3373# Asia/Krasnoyarsk covers... 3374# 17 RU-TY Tuva Republic 3375# 19 RU-KK Khakassia, Republic of 3376# 24 RU-KYA Krasnoyarsk Krai 3377# 3378# Note: Effective 2007-01-01, (88) Evenk Autonomous Okrug and (84) Taymyr 3379# Autonomous Okrug were merged into (24, RU-KYA) Krasnoyarsk Krai. 3380 3381# Byalokoz 1919 says Krasnoyarsk was 6:11:26. 3382 3383Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:26 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 3384 6:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3385 7:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3386 6:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3387 7:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3388 8:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3389 7:00 - %z 3390 3391 3392# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3393# Asia/Irkutsk covers... 3394# 03 RU-BU Buryatia, Republic of 3395# 38 RU-IRK Irkutsk Oblast 3396# 3397# Note: Effective 2008-01-01, (85) Ust-Orda Buryat Autonomous Okrug was 3398# merged into (38, RU-IRK) Irkutsk Oblast. 3399 3400# Milne 1899 says Irkutsk was 6:57:15. 3401# Byalokoz 1919 says Irkutsk was 6:57:05. 3402# Go with Byalokoz. 3403 3404Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:05 - LMT 1880 3405 6:57:05 - IMT 1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time 3406 7:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3407 8:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3408 7:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3409 8:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3410 9:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3411 8:00 - %z 3412 3413 3414# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): 3415# Asia/Chita covers... 3416# 92 RU-ZAB Zabaykalsky Krai 3417# 3418# Note: Effective 2008-03-01, (75) Chita Oblast and (80) Agin-Buryat 3419# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (92, RU-ZAB) Zabaykalsky Krai. 3420 3421# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-01-02): 3422# [The] time zone in the Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai) - 3423# Asia/Chita [is changing] from UTC+8 to UTC+9. Effective date will 3424# be March 27, 2016 at 2:00am.... 3425# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201512300107 3426 3427Zone Asia/Chita 7:33:52 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 3428 8:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3429 9:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3430 8:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3431 9:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3432 10:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3433 8:00 - %z 2016 Mar 27 2:00 3434 9:00 - %z 3435 3436 3437# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): 3438# Asia/Yakutsk covers... 3439# 28 RU-AMU Amur Oblast 3440# 3441# ...and parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: 3442# 14-02 **** Aldansky District 3443# 14-04 **** Amginsky District 3444# 14-05 **** Anabarsky District 3445# 14-06 **** Bulunsky District 3446# 14-07 **** Verkhnevilyuysky District 3447# 14-10 **** Vilyuysky District 3448# 14-11 **** Gorny District 3449# 14-12 **** Zhigansky District 3450# 14-13 **** Kobyaysky District 3451# 14-14 **** Lensky District 3452# 14-15 **** Megino-Kangalassky District 3453# 14-16 **** Mirninsky District 3454# 14-18 **** Namsky District 3455# 14-19 **** Neryungrinsky District 3456# 14-21 **** Nyurbinsky District 3457# 14-23 **** Olenyoksky District 3458# 14-24 **** Olyokminsky District 3459# 14-26 **** Suntarsky District 3460# 14-27 **** Tattinsky District 3461# 14-29 **** Ust-Aldansky District 3462# 14-32 **** Khangalassky District 3463# 14-33 **** Churapchinsky District 3464# 14-34 **** Eveno-Bytantaysky National District 3465 3466# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3467# Our commentary seems to have lost mention of (14-19) Neryungrinsky District. 3468# Since the surrounding districts of Sakha are all YAKT, assume this is, too. 3469# Also assume its history has been the same as the rest of Asia/Yakutsk. 3470 3471# Byalokoz 1919 says Yakutsk was 8:38:58. 3472 3473Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:58 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 3474 8:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3475 9:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3476 8:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3477 9:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3478 10:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3479 9:00 - %z 3480 3481 3482# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): 3483# Asia/Vladivostok covers... 3484# 25 RU-PRI Primorsky Krai 3485# 27 RU-KHA Khabarovsk Krai 3486# 79 RU-YEV Jewish Autonomous Oblast 3487# 3488# ...and parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: 3489# 14-09 **** Verkhoyansky District 3490# 14-31 **** Ust-Yansky District 3491 3492# Milne 1899 says Vladivostok was 8:47:33.5. 3493# Byalokoz 1919 says Vladivostok was 8:47:31. 3494# Go with Byalokoz. 3495 3496Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:31 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 3497 9:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3498 10:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3499 9:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3500 10:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3501 11:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3502 10:00 - %z 3503 3504 3505# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3506# Asia/Khandyga covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: 3507# 14-28 **** Tomponsky District 3508# 14-30 **** Ust-Maysky District 3509 3510# From Arthur David Olson (2022-03-21): 3511# Tomponsky and Ust-Maysky switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time 3512# in 2011. 3513 3514# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25): 3515# Shanks and Pottenger (2003) has Khandyga on Yakutsk time. 3516# Make a wild guess that it switched to Vladivostok time in 2004. 3517# This transition is no doubt wrong, but we have no better info. 3518 3519Zone Asia/Khandyga 9:02:13 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 3520 8:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3521 9:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3522 8:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3523 9:00 Russia %z 2004 3524 10:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3525 11:00 - %z 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? 3526 10:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3527 9:00 - %z 3528 3529 3530# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3531# Asia/Sakhalin covers... 3532# 65 RU-SAK Sakhalin Oblast 3533# ...with the exception of: 3534# 65-11 **** Severo-Kurilsky District (North Kuril Islands) 3535 3536# From Matt Johnson (2016-02-22): 3537# Asia/Sakhalin is moving (in entirety) from UTC+10 to UTC+11 ... 3538# (2016-03-09): 3539# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201603090044 3540 3541# The Zone name should be Asia/Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. 3542Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 3543 9:00 - %z 1945 Aug 25 3544 11:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T 3545 10:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3546 11:00 Russia %z 1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s 3547 10:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3548 11:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3549 10:00 - %z 2016 Mar 27 2:00s 3550 11:00 - %z 3551 3552 3553# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): 3554# Asia/Magadan covers... 3555# 49 RU-MAG Magadan Oblast 3556 3557# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): 3558# Magadan Oblast is moving from UTC+12 to UTC+10 on 2014-10-26; however, 3559# several districts of Sakha Republic as well as Severo-Kurilsky District of 3560# the Sakhalin Oblast (also known as the North Kuril Islands), represented 3561# until now by Asia/Magadan, will instead move to UTC+11. These regions will 3562# need their own zone. 3563 3564# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2016-03-27): 3565# ... draft bill 948300-6 to change its time zone from UTC+10 to UTC+11 ... 3566# will take ... effect ... on April 24, 2016 at 2 o'clock 3567# 3568# From Matt Johnson (2016-04-05): 3569# ... signed by the President today ... 3570# http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201604050038 3571 3572Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 3573 10:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time 3574 11:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3575 10:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3576 11:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3577 12:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3578 10:00 - %z 2016 Apr 24 2:00s 3579 11:00 - %z 3580 3581 3582# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): 3583# Asia/Srednekolymsk covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: 3584# 14-01 **** Abyysky District 3585# 14-03 **** Allaikhovsky District 3586# 14-08 **** Verkhnekolymsky District 3587# 14-17 **** Momsky District 3588# 14-20 **** Nizhnekolymsky District 3589# 14-25 **** Srednekolymsky District 3590# 3591# ...and parts of (65, RU-SAK) Sakhalin Oblast: 3592# 65-11 **** Severo-Kurilsky District (North Kuril Islands) 3593 3594# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-02): 3595# Oymyakonsky District of Sakha Republic (represented by Ust-Nera), along with 3596# most of Sakhalin Oblast (represented by Sakhalin) will be moving to UTC+10 on 3597# 2014-10-26 to stay aligned with VLAT/SAKT; however, Severo-Kurilsky District 3598# of the Sakhalin Oblast (also known as the North Kuril Islands, represented by 3599# Severo-Kurilsk) will remain on UTC+11. 3600 3601# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06): 3602# Assume North Kuril Islands have history like Magadan before 2011-03-27. 3603# There is a decent chance this is wrong, in which case a new zone 3604# Asia/Severo-Kurilsk would become necessary. 3605# 3606# Srednekolymsk and Zyryanka are the most populous places amongst these 3607# districts, but have very similar populations. In fact, Wikipedia currently 3608# lists them both as having 3528 people, exactly 1668 males and 1860 females 3609# each! (Yikes!) 3610# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Srednekolymsky_District&oldid=603435276 3611# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/?title=Verkhnekolymsky_District&oldid=594378493 3612# Assume this is a mistake, albeit an amusing one. 3613# 3614# Looking at censuses, the populations of the two municipalities seem to have 3615# fluctuated recently. Zyryanka was more populous than Srednekolymsk in the 3616# 1989 and 2002 censuses, but Srednekolymsk was more populous in the most 3617# recent (2010) census, 3525 to 3170. (See pages 195 and 197 of 3618# http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/Documents/Vol1/pub-01-05.pdf 3619# in Russian.) In addition, Srednekolymsk appears to be a much older 3620# settlement and the population of Zyryanka seems to be declining. 3621# Go with Srednekolymsk. 3622 3623Zone Asia/Srednekolymsk 10:14:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 3624 10:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3625 11:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3626 10:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3627 11:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3628 12:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3629 11:00 - %z 3630 3631 3632# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3633# Asia/Ust-Nera covers parts of (14, RU-SA) Sakha (Yakutia) Republic: 3634# 14-22 **** Oymyakonsky District 3635 3636# From Arthur David Olson (2022-03-21): 3637# Oymyakonsky and the Kuril Islands switched from 3638# Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011. 3639# 3640# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-06), per Alexander Krivenyshev (2014-07-02): 3641# It's unlikely that any of the Kuril Islands were involved in such a switch, 3642# as the South and Middle Kurils have been on UTC+11 (SAKT) with the rest of 3643# Sakhalin Oblast since at least 2011-09, and the North Kurils have been on 3644# UTC+12 since at least then, too. 3645 3646Zone Asia/Ust-Nera 9:32:54 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 3647 8:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3648 9:00 Russia %z 1981 Apr 1 3649 11:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3650 10:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3651 11:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3652 12:00 - %z 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? 3653 11:00 - %z 2014 Oct 26 2:00s 3654 10:00 - %z 3655 3656 3657# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03), per Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): 3658# Asia/Kamchatka covers... 3659# 91 RU-KAM Kamchatka Krai 3660# 3661# Note: Effective 2007-07-01, (41) Kamchatka Oblast and (82) Koryak 3662# Autonomous Okrug merged to form (91, RU-KAM) Kamchatka Krai. 3663 3664# The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski or perhaps 3665# Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, but these are too long. 3666Zone Asia/Kamchatka 10:34:36 - LMT 1922 Nov 10 3667 11:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3668 12:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3669 11:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3670 12:00 Russia %z 2010 Mar 28 2:00s 3671 11:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3672 12:00 - %z 3673 3674 3675# From Tim Parenti (2014-07-03): 3676# Asia/Anadyr covers... 3677# 87 RU-CHU Chukotka Autonomous Okrug 3678 3679Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 3680 12:00 - %z 1930 Jun 21 3681 13:00 Russia %z 1982 Apr 1 0:00s 3682 12:00 Russia %z 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3683 11:00 Russia %z 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3684 12:00 Russia %z 2010 Mar 28 2:00s 3685 11:00 Russia %z 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 3686 12:00 - %z 3687 3688# San Marino 3689Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino 3690 3691# Serbia 3692# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3693Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 3694 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 3695 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 3696 1:00 - CET 1945 May 8 2:00s 3697 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 3698# Metod Koželj reports that the legal date of 3699# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. 3700# Shanks & Pottenger don't give as much detail, so go with Koželj. 3701 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 3702 1:00 EU CE%sT 3703 3704# Slovakia 3705Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava 3706 3707# Slovenia 3708# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3709Zone Europe/Ljubljana 0:58:04 - LMT 1884 3710 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 3711 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 3712 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 3713 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 3714 1:00 EU CE%sT 3715 3716# Spain 3717# 3718# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-14): 3719# 3720# The source for Europe/Madrid before 2013 is: 3721# Planesas P. La hora oficial en España y sus cambios. 3722# Anuario del Observatorio Astronómico de Madrid (2013, in Spanish). 3723# http://astronomia.ign.es/rknowsys-theme/images/webAstro/paginas/documentos/Anuario/lahoraoficialenespana.pdf 3724# As this source says that historical time in the Canaries is obscure, 3725# and it does not discuss Ceuta, stick with Shanks for now for that data. 3726# 3727# In the 1918 and 1919 fallback transitions in Spain, the clock for 3728# the hour-longer day officially kept going after midnight, so that 3729# the repeated instances of that day's 00:00 hour were 24 hours apart, 3730# with a fallback transition from the second occurrence of 00:59... to 3731# the next day's 00:00. Our data format cannot represent this 3732# directly, and instead repeats the first hour of the next day, with a 3733# fallback transition from the next day's 00:59... to 00:00. 3734 3735# From Michael Deckers (2016-12-15): 3736# The Royal Decree of 1900-07-26 quoted by Planesas, online at 3737# https://www.boe.es/datos/pdfs/BOE//1900/209/A00383-00384.pdf 3738# says in its article 5 (my translation): 3739# These dispositions will enter into force beginning with the 3740# instant at which, according to the time indicated in article 1, 3741# the 1st day of January of 1901 will begin. 3742 3743# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3744Rule Spain 1918 only - Apr 15 23:00 1:00 S 3745Rule Spain 1918 1919 - Oct 6 24:00s 0 - 3746Rule Spain 1919 only - Apr 6 23:00 1:00 S 3747Rule Spain 1924 only - Apr 16 23:00 1:00 S 3748Rule Spain 1924 only - Oct 4 24:00s 0 - 3749Rule Spain 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S 3750Rule Spain 1926 1929 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00s 0 - 3751Rule Spain 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S 3752Rule Spain 1928 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 3753Rule Spain 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S 3754# Republican Spain during the civil war; it controlled Madrid until 1939-03-28. 3755Rule Spain 1937 only - Jun 16 23:00 1:00 S 3756Rule Spain 1937 only - Oct 2 24:00s 0 - 3757Rule Spain 1938 only - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S 3758Rule Spain 1938 only - Apr 30 23:00 2:00 M 3759Rule Spain 1938 only - Oct 2 24:00 1:00 S 3760# The following rules are for unified Spain again. 3761# 3762# Planesas does not say what happened in Madrid between its fall on 3763# 1939-03-28 and the Nationalist spring-forward transition on 3764# 1939-04-15. For lack of better info, assume Madrid's clocks did not 3765# change during that period. 3766# 3767# The first rule is commented out, as it is redundant for Republican Spain. 3768#Rule Spain 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00 1:00 S 3769Rule Spain 1939 only - Oct 7 24:00s 0 - 3770Rule Spain 1942 only - May 2 23:00 1:00 S 3771Rule Spain 1942 only - Sep 1 1:00 0 - 3772Rule Spain 1943 1946 - Apr Sat>=13 23:00 1:00 S 3773Rule Spain 1943 1944 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 - 3774Rule Spain 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - 3775Rule Spain 1949 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S 3776Rule Spain 1949 only - Oct 2 1:00 0 - 3777Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Apr Sat>=12 23:00 1:00 S 3778Rule Spain 1974 1975 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 - 3779Rule Spain 1976 only - Mar 27 23:00 1:00 S 3780Rule Spain 1976 1977 - Sep lastSun 1:00 0 - 3781Rule Spain 1977 only - Apr 2 23:00 1:00 S 3782Rule Spain 1978 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 3783Rule Spain 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 3784# Nationalist Spain during the civil war 3785#Rule NatSpain 1937 only - May 22 23:00 1:00 S 3786#Rule NatSpain 1937 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00s 0 - 3787#Rule NatSpain 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00 1:00 S 3788# The following rules are copied from Morocco from 1967 through 1978, 3789# except with "S" letters. 3790Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S 3791Rule SpainAfrica 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 3792Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S 3793Rule SpainAfrica 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 3794Rule SpainAfrica 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 3795Rule SpainAfrica 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - 3796Rule SpainAfrica 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - 3797Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 3798Rule SpainAfrica 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 - 3799# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3800Zone Europe/Madrid -0:14:44 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00u 3801 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1940 Mar 16 23:00 3802 1:00 Spain CE%sT 1979 3803 1:00 EU CE%sT 3804Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 0:00u 3805 0:00 - WET 1918 May 6 23:00 3806 0:00 1:00 WEST 1918 Oct 7 23:00 3807 0:00 - WET 1924 3808 0:00 Spain WE%sT 1929 3809 0:00 - WET 1967 # Help zishrink.awk. 3810 0:00 SpainAfrica WE%sT 1984 Mar 16 3811 1:00 - CET 1986 3812 1:00 EU CE%sT 3813Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. 3814 -1:00 - %z 1946 Sep 30 1:00 3815 0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s 3816 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 1:00u 3817 0:00 EU WE%sT 3818# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u. 3819# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. 3820 3821# Sweden 3822# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3823Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 3824 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time 3825 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 3826 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 1:00 3827 1:00 - CET 1980 3828 1:00 EU CE%sT 3829 3830# Switzerland 3831# From Howse: 3832# By the end of the 18th century clocks and watches became commonplace 3833# and their performance improved enormously. Communities began to keep 3834# mean time in preference to apparent time - Geneva from 1780 .... 3835# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3836# From Whitman (who writes "Midnight?"): 3837# Rule Swiss 1940 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S 3838# Rule Swiss 1940 only - Dec 31 0:00 0 - 3839# From Shanks & Pottenger: 3840# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 3841# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 3842 3843# From Alois Treindl (2008-12-17): 3844# I have researched the DST usage in Switzerland during the 1940ies. 3845# 3846# As I wrote in an earlier message, I suspected the current tzdata values 3847# to be wrong. This is now verified. 3848# 3849# I have found copies of the original ruling by the Swiss Federal 3850# government, in 'Eidgenössische Gesetzessammlung 1941 and 1942' (Swiss 3851# federal law collection)... 3852# 3853# DST began on Monday 5 May 1941, 1:00 am by shifting the clocks to 2:00 am 3854# DST ended on Monday 6 Oct 1941, 2:00 am by shifting the clocks to 1:00 am. 3855# 3856# DST began on Monday, 4 May 1942 at 01:00 am 3857# DST ended on Monday, 5 Oct 1942 at 02:00 am 3858# 3859# There was no DST in 1940, I have checked the law collection carefully. 3860# It is also indicated by the fact that the 1942 entry in the law 3861# collection points back to 1941 as a reference, but no reference to any 3862# other years are made. 3863# 3864# Newspaper articles I have read in the archives on 6 May 1941 reported 3865# about the introduction of DST (Sommerzeit in German) during the previous 3866# night as an absolute novelty, because this was the first time that such 3867# a thing had happened in Switzerland. 3868# 3869# I have also checked 1916, because one book source (Gabriel, Traité de 3870# l'heure dans le monde) claims that Switzerland had DST in 1916. This is 3871# false, no official document could be found. Probably Gabriel got misled 3872# by references to Germany, which introduced DST in 1916 for the first time. 3873# 3874# The tzdata rules for Switzerland must be changed to: 3875# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Mon>=1 1:00 1:00 S 3876# Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Mon>=1 2:00 0 - 3877# 3878# The 1940 rules must be deleted. 3879# 3880# One further detail for Switzerland, which is probably out of scope for 3881# most users of tzdata: The [Europe/Zurich zone] ... 3882# describes all of Switzerland correctly, with the exception of 3883# the Canton de Genève (Geneva, Genf). Between 1848 and 1894 Geneva did not 3884# follow Bern Mean Time but kept its own local mean time. 3885# To represent this, an extra zone would be needed. 3886# 3887# From Alois Treindl (2013-09-11): 3888# The Federal regulations say 3889# https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/20071096/index.html 3890# ... the meridian for Bern mean time ... is 7° 26' 22.50". 3891# Expressed in time, it is 0h29m45.5s. 3892 3893# From Pierre-Yves Berger (2013-09-11): 3894# the "Circulaire du conseil fédéral" (December 11 1893) 3895# http://www.amtsdruckschriften.bar.admin.ch/viewOrigDoc.do?id=10071353 3896# clearly states that the [1894-06-01] change should be done at midnight 3897# but if no one is present after 11 at night, could be postponed until one 3898# hour before the beginning of service. 3899 3900# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-24): 3901# Express BMT as 0:29:45.500, approximately the same precision 7° 26' 22.50". 3902# 3903# We can find no reliable source for Shanks's assertion that all of Switzerland 3904# except Geneva switched to Bern Mean Time at 00:00 on 1848-09-12. This book: 3905# 3906# Jakob Messerli. Gleichmässig, pünktlich, schnell. Zeiteinteilung und 3907# Zeitgebrauch in der Schweiz im 19. Jahrhundert. Chronos, Zurich 1995, 3908# ISBN 3-905311-68-2, OCLC 717570797. 3909# 3910# suggests that the transition was more gradual, and that the Swiss did not 3911# agree about civil time during the transition. The timekeeping it gives the 3912# most detail for is postal and telegraph time: here, federal legislation (the 3913# "Bundesgesetz über die Erstellung von elektrischen Telegraphen") passed on 3914# 1851-11-23, and an official implementation notice was published 1853-07-16 3915# (Bundesblatt 1853, Bd. II, S. 859). On p 72 Messerli writes that in 3916# practice since July 1853 Bernese time was used in "all postal and telegraph 3917# offices in Switzerland from Geneva to St. Gallen and Basel to Chiasso" 3918# (Google translation). For now, model this transition as occurring on 3919# 1853-07-16, though it probably occurred at some other date in Zurich, and 3920# legal civil time probably changed at still some other transition date. 3921 3922# From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12): 3923# Büsingen <http://www.buesingen.de>, surrounded by the Swiss canton 3924# Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE 3925# (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did. 3926# DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1, 3927# which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin. 3928# 3929# Source for the time in Büsingen 1980: 3930# http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3 3931# 3932# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03): 3933# Büsingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970. 3934 3935# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3936Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - May Mon>=1 1:00 1:00 S 3937Rule Swiss 1941 1942 - Oct Mon>=1 2:00 0 - 3938# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3939Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Jul 16 # See above comment. 3940 #STDOFF 0:29:45.500 3941 0:29:46 - BMT 1894 Jun # Bern Mean Time 3942 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 3943 1:00 EU CE%sT 3944Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Busingen 3945 3946# Turkey 3947 3948# From Alois Treindl (2019-08-12): 3949# http://www.astrolojidergisi.com/yazsaati.htm has researched the time zone 3950# history of Turkey, based on newspaper archives and official documents. 3951# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28): 3952# That source (Oya Vulaş, "Türkiye'de Yaz Saati Uygulamaları") 3953# is used for 1940/1972, where it seems more reliable than our other 3954# sources. 3955 3956# From Kıvanç Yazan (2019-08-12): 3957# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14539.pdf#page=24 3958# 1973-06-03 01:00 -> 02:00, 1973-11-04 02:00 -> 01:00 3959# 3960# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14829.pdf#page=1 3961# 1974-03-31 02:00 -> 03:00, 1974-11-03 02:00 -> 01:00 3962# 3963# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15161.pdf#page=1 3964# 1975-03-22 02:00 -> 03:00, 1975-11-02 02:00 -> 01:00 3965# 3966# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15535_1.pdf#page=1 3967# 1976-03-21 02:00 -> 03:00, 1976-10-31 02:00 -> 01:00 3968# 3969# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15778.pdf#page=5 3970# 1977-04-03 02:00 -> 03:00, 1977-10-16 02:00 -> 01:00, 3971# 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) 3972# 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below) 3973# 1979-04-01 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) 3974# 1979-10-14 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below) 3975# 3976# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16245.pdf#page=17 3977# This cancels the previous decision, and repeats it only for 1978. 3978# 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00, 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 3979# (not applied due to standard TZ change below) 3980# 3981# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16331.pdf#page=3 3982# This decision changes the default longitude for Turkish time zone from 30 3983# degrees East to 45 degrees East. This means a standard TZ change, from +2 3984# to +3. This is published & applied on 1978-06-29. At that time, Turkey was 3985# already on summer time (already on 45E). Hence, this new law just meant an 3986# "continuous summer time". Note that this was reversed in a few years. 3987# 3988# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18119_1.pdf#page=1 3989# 1983-07-31 02:00 -> 03:00 (note that this jumps TZ to +4) 3990# 1983-10-02 02:00 -> 01:00 (back to +3) 3991# 3992# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18561.pdf (page 1 and 34) 3993# At this time, Turkey is still on +3 with no spring-forward on early 3994# 1984. This decision is published on 10/31/1984. Page 1 declares 3995# the decision of reverting the "default longitude change". So the 3996# standard time should go back to +3 (30E). And page 34 explains when 3997# that will happen: 1984-11-01 02:00 -> 01:00. You can think of this 3998# as "end of continuous summer time, change of standard time zone". 3999# 4000# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18713.pdf#page=1 4001# 1985-04-20 01:00 -> 02:00, 1985-09-28 02:00 -> 01:00 4002 4003# From Kıvanç Yazan (2016-09-25): 4004# 1) For 1986-2006, DST started at 01:00 local and ended at 02:00 local, with 4005# no exceptions. 4006# 2) 1994's lastSun was overridden with Mar 20 ... 4007# Here are official papers: 4008# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19032.pdf#page=2 for 1986 4009# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19400.pdf#page=4 for 1987 4010# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/19752.pdf#page=15 for 1988 4011# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20102.pdf#page=6 for 1989 4012# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20464.pdf#page=1 for 1990 - 1992 4013# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21531.pdf#page=15 for 1993 - 1995 4014# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/21879.pdf#page=1 for overriding 1994 4015# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/22588.pdf#page=1 for 1996, 1997 4016# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/23286.pdf#page=10 for 1998 - 2000 4017# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2001/03/20010324.htm#2 - for 2001 4018# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2002/03/20020316.htm#2 - for 2002-2006 4019# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-25): 4020# Prefer the above sources to Shanks & Pottenger for timestamps after 1985. 4021 4022# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-09): 4023# Starting 2007 though, it seems that they are adopting EU's 1:00 UTC 4024# start/end time, according to the following page (2007-03-07): 4025# http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/402029.asp 4026# The official document is located here - it is in Turkish...: 4027# http://rega.basbakanlik.gov.tr/eskiler/2007/03/20070307-7.htm 4028# I was able to locate the following seemingly official document 4029# (on a non-government server though) describing dates between 2002 and 2006: 4030# http://www.alomaliye.com/bkk_2002_3769.htm 4031 4032# From Gökdeniz Karadağ (2011-03-10): 4033# According to the articles linked below, Turkey will change into summer 4034# time zone (GMT+3) on March 28, 2011 at 3:00 a.m. instead of March 27. 4035# This change is due to a nationwide exam on 27th. 4036# https://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=70872 4037# Turkish: 4038# https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-bir-gun-ileri-alindi-17230464 4039 4040# From Faruk Pasin (2014-02-14): 4041# The DST for Turkey has been changed for this year because of the 4042# Turkish Local election.... 4043# http://www.sabah.com.tr/Ekonomi/2014/02/12/yaz-saatinde-onemli-degisiklik 4044# ... so Turkey will move clocks forward one hour on March 31 at 3:00 a.m. 4045# From Randal L. Schwartz (2014-04-15): 4046# Having landed on a flight from the states to Istanbul (via AMS) on March 31, 4047# I can tell you that NOBODY (even the airlines) respected this timezone DST 4048# change delay. Maybe the word just didn't get out in time. 4049# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-15): 4050# The press reported massive confusion, as election officials obeyed the rule 4051# change but cell phones (and airline baggage systems) did not. See: 4052# Kostidis M. Eventful elections in Turkey. Balkan News Agency 4053# http://www.balkaneu.com/eventful-elections-turkey/ 2014-03-30. 4054# I guess the best we can do is document the official time. 4055 4056# From Fatih (2015-09-29): 4057# It's officially announced now by the Ministry of Energy. 4058# Turkey delays winter time to 8th of November 04:00 4059# http://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-8-kasimda-sona-erecek/362217 4060# 4061# From BBC News (2015-10-25): 4062# Confused Turks are asking "what's the time?" after automatic clocks defied a 4063# government decision ... "For the next two weeks #Turkey is on EEST... Erdogan 4064# Engineered Standard Time," said Twitter user @aysekarahasan. 4065# http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326 4066 4067# From Burak AYDIN (2016-09-08): 4068# Turkey will stay in Daylight Saving Time even in winter.... 4069# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2016/09/20160908-2.pdf 4070# 4071# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-07): 4072# The change is permanent, so this is the new standard time in Turkey. 4073# It takes effect today, which is not much notice. 4074 4075# From Kıvanç Yazan (2017-10-28): 4076# Turkey will go back to Daylight Saving Time starting 2018-10. 4077# http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2017/10/20171028-5.pdf 4078# 4079# From Even Scharning (2017-11-08): 4080# ... today it was announced that the DST will become "continuous": 4081# http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/son-dakika-yaz-saati-uygulamasi-surekli-hale-geldi-40637482 4082# From Paul Eggert (2017-11-08): 4083# Although Google Translate misfires on that source, it looks like 4084# Turkey reversed last month's decision, and so will stay at +03. 4085 4086# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 4087Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 4088Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 4089Rule Turkey 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 4090Rule Turkey 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 4091Rule Turkey 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 4092Rule Turkey 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 4093Rule Turkey 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 4094Rule Turkey 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 4095# Whitman gives 1923 Apr 28 - Sep 16 and no DST in 1924-1925; 4096# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 4097Rule Turkey 1924 only - May 13 0:00 1:00 S 4098Rule Turkey 1924 1925 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 4099Rule Turkey 1925 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 4100Rule Turkey 1940 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S 4101Rule Turkey 1940 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 - 4102Rule Turkey 1940 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S 4103Rule Turkey 1941 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 4104Rule Turkey 1942 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 4105Rule Turkey 1945 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 4106Rule Turkey 1946 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 4107Rule Turkey 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 4108Rule Turkey 1947 1948 - Apr Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 4109Rule Turkey 1947 1951 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0 - 4110Rule Turkey 1949 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 4111Rule Turkey 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S 4112Rule Turkey 1951 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 4113# DST for 15 months; unusual but we'll let it pass. 4114Rule Turkey 1962 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S 4115Rule Turkey 1963 only - Oct 30 0:00 0 - 4116Rule Turkey 1964 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 4117Rule Turkey 1964 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 4118Rule Turkey 1973 only - Jun 3 1:00 1:00 S 4119Rule Turkey 1973 1976 - Oct Sun>=31 2:00 0 - 4120Rule Turkey 1974 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 4121Rule Turkey 1975 only - Mar 22 2:00 1:00 S 4122Rule Turkey 1976 only - Mar 21 2:00 1:00 S 4123Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 4124Rule Turkey 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 0 - 4125Rule Turkey 1978 only - Jun 29 0:00 0 - 4126Rule Turkey 1983 only - Jul 31 2:00 1:00 S 4127Rule Turkey 1983 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 - 4128Rule Turkey 1985 only - Apr 20 1:00s 1:00 S 4129Rule Turkey 1985 only - Sep 28 1:00s 0 - 4130Rule Turkey 1986 1993 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S 4131Rule Turkey 1986 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - 4132Rule Turkey 1994 only - Mar 20 1:00s 1:00 S 4133Rule Turkey 1995 2006 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S 4134Rule Turkey 1996 2006 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 - 4135# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 4136Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880 4137 1:56:56 - IMT 1910 Oct # Istanbul Mean Time? 4138 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 1978 Jun 29 4139 3:00 Turkey %z 1984 Nov 1 2:00 4140 2:00 Turkey EE%sT 2007 4141 2:00 EU EE%sT 2011 Mar 27 1:00u 4142 2:00 - EET 2011 Mar 28 1:00u 4143 2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 1:00u 4144 2:00 - EET 2014 Mar 31 1:00u 4145 2:00 EU EE%sT 2015 Oct 25 1:00u 4146 2:00 1:00 EEST 2015 Nov 8 1:00u 4147 2:00 EU EE%sT 2016 Sep 7 4148 3:00 - %z 4149 4150# Ukraine 4151# 4152# From Alois Treindl (2014-03-01): 4153# REGULATION A N O V A on March 20, 1992 N 139 ... means that from 4154# 1992 on, Ukraine had DST with begin time at 02:00 am, on last Sunday 4155# in March, and end time 03:00 am, last Sunday in September.... 4156# CABINET OF MINISTERS OF UKRAINE RESOLUTION on May 13, 1996 N 509 4157# "On the order of computation time on the territory of Ukraine" .... 4158# As this cabinet decision is from May 1996, it seems likely that the 4159# transition in March 1996, which predates it, was still at 2:00 am 4160# and not at 3:00 as would have been under EU rules. 4161# This is why I have set the change to EU rules into May 1996, 4162# so that the change in March is stil covered by the Ukraine rule. 4163# The next change in October 1996 happened under EU rules. 4164# 4165# From Paul Eggert (2022-08-27): 4166# For now, assume that Ukraine's zones all followed the same rules, 4167# except that Crimea switched to Moscow time in 1994 as described elsewhere. 4168 4169# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, 4170# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): 4171# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government 4172# regulations No. 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: 4173# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday 4174# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of 4175# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am" 4176 4177# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-20): 4178# On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to 4179# abolish the transfer clock to winter time. 4180# 4181# Bill No. 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got 4182# approval from 266 deputies. 4183# 4184# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian) 4185# http://news.mail.ru/politics/6861560/ 4186# 4187# The Ukrainians will no longer change the clock (in Russian) 4188# http://www.segodnya.ua/news/14290482.html 4189# 4190# Deputies cancelled the winter time (in Russian) 4191# https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2011/09/20/6600616/ 4192# 4193# From Philip Pizzey (2011-10-18): 4194# Today my Ukrainian colleagues have informed me that the 4195# Ukrainian parliament have decided that they will go to winter 4196# time this year after all. 4197# 4198# From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18): 4199# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukrainian time zone 4200# (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar 4201# to Russia) was reverted today: 4202# http://portal.rada.gov.ua/rada/control/en/publish/article/info_left?art_id=287324&cat_id=105995 4203# 4204# Also reported by Alexander Bokovoy (2011-10-18) who also noted: 4205# The law documents themselves are at 4206# http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb_n/webproc4_1?id=&pf3511=41484 4207 4208# From Vladimir in Moscow via Alois Treindl re Kyiv time 1991/2 (2014-02-28): 4209# First in Ukraine they changed Time zone from UTC+3 to UTC+2 with DST: 4210# 03 25 1990 02:00 -03.00 1 Time Zone 3 with DST 4211# 07 01 1990 02:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST 4212# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 18.06.1990, No. 134. 4213# http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/T001500.html 4214# 4215# They did not end DST in September, 1990 (according to the law, 4216# "summer time" was still in action): 4217# 09 30 1990 03:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST 4218# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 21.09.1990, No. 272. 4219# http://search.ligazakon.ua/l_doc2.nsf/link1/KP900272.html 4220# 4221# Again no change in March, 1991 ("summer time" in action): 4222# 03 31 1991 02:00 -02.00 1 Time Zone 2 with DST 4223# 4224# DST ended in September 1991 ("summer time" ended): 4225# 09 29 1991 03:00 -02.00 0 Time Zone 2, no DST 4226# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 25.09.1991, No. 225. 4227# http://www.uazakon.com/documents/date_21/pg_iwgdoc.htm 4228# This is an answer. 4229# 4230# Since 1992 they had normal DST procedure: 4231# 03 29 1992 02:00 -02.00 1 DST started 4232# 09 27 1992 03:00 -02.00 0 DST ended 4233# * Ukrainian Government's Resolution of 20.03.1992, No. 139. 4234# http://www.uazakon.com/documents/date_8u/pg_grcasa.htm 4235 4236# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 4237Zone Europe/Kyiv 2:02:04 - LMT 1880 4238 2:02:04 - KMT 1924 May 2 # Kyiv Mean Time 4239 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 4240 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 20 4241 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Nov 6 4242 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 Jul 1 2:00 4243 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 3:00 4244 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13 4245 2:00 EU EE%sT 4246 4247# Vatican City 4248Link Europe/Rome Europe/Vatican 4249 4250 4251############################################################################### 4252 4253# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from 4254# the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in September in 1986. 4255# The source shows Romania changing a day later than everybody else. 4256# 4257# According to Bernard Sieloff's source, Poland is in the MET time zone but 4258# uses the WE DST rules. The Western USSR uses EET+1 and ME DST rules. 4259# Bernard Sieloff's source claims Romania switches on the same day, but at 4260# 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST). It also claims that Turkey 4261# switches on the same day, but switches on at 01:00 standard time 4262# and off at 00:00 standard time (i.e., 01:00 DST) 4263 4264# ... 4265# Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 4266# From: Tom Hofmann 4267# ... 4268# 4269# ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when 4270# most European countries started DST. Before that year, only 4271# a few countries (UK, France, Italy) had DST, each according 4272# to own national rules. In 1981, however, DST started on 4273# 'Apr firstSun', and not on 'Mar lastSun' as in the following 4274# years... 4275# But also since 1981 there are some more national exceptions 4276# than listed in 'europe': Switzerland, for example, joined DST 4277# one year later, Denmark ended DST on 'Oct 1' instead of 'Sep 4278# lastSun' in 1981 - I don't know how they handle now. 4279# 4280# Finally, DST ist always from 'Apr 1' to 'Oct 1' in the 4281# Soviet Union (as far as I know). 4282# 4283# Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, 4284# 4002 Basle, Switzerland 4285# ... 4286 4287# ... 4288# Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 4289# From: Dik T. Winter 4290# ... 4291# 4292# The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. 4293# After a request from chongo at amdahl I tried to retrieve all information 4294# about DST in Europe. I was able to find all from about 1969. 4295# 4296# ...standardization on DST in Europe started in about 1977 with switches on 4297# first Sunday in April and last Sunday in September... 4298# In 1981 UK joined Europe insofar that 4299# the starting day for both shifted to last Sunday in March. And from 1982 4300# the whole of Europe used DST, with switch dates April 1 and October 1 in 4301# the Sov[i]et Union. In 1985 the SU reverted to standard Europe[a]n switch 4302# dates... 4303# 4304# It should also be remembered that time-zones are not constants; e.g. 4305# Portugal switched in 1976 from MET (or CET) to WET with DST... 4306# Note also that though there were rules for switch dates not 4307# all countries abided to these dates, and many individual deviations 4308# occurred, though not since 1982 I believe. Another note: it is always 4309# assumed that DST is 1 hour ahead of normal time, this need not be the 4310# case; at least in the Netherlands there have been times when DST was 2 hours 4311# in advance of normal time. 4312# 4313# ... 4314# dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland 4315# ... 4316 4317# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 4318# ... 4319# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates). 4320# Since 1978. Change at midnight. 4321# ... 4322# Monaco: has same DST as France. 4323# ... 4324