Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site asgb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard! seismo!hao!asgb!devine From: dev...@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine) Newsgroups: net.internat,net.unix Subject: Daylight Saving Time -- help! Message-ID: <810@asgb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:47:19 EST Article-I.D.: asgb.810 Posted: Wed Nov 6 21:47:19 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:23:11 EST Organization: Burroughs Corp. ASG, Boulder Colo. Lines: 56 Please, if you post a reply to this, reply to "net.internat". I'm working on a conversion routine for a product that we plan to sell wherever we do business. Timezone information for the various countries is easily available, but, Daylight Saving Time rules are hard to obtain (many European countries seem to change them from year to year). I am using tables put together from a variety of sources that are incomplete and may be wrong. Can anybody complete/correct the start- and finish-date tables for Daylight Saving Time for the following countries/regions? The 'start' and 'finish' dates are starting points in a search for the next Sunday on which the change from standard to daylight time occurs. country year start finish ------- ---- ----- ------ USA all 119 303 Australia all 303 65 South Africa all 303 65 New Zealand all 303 65 Western Europe 1985 89 303 Western Europe 1986 89 301 Western Europe 1987 89 301 Western Europe 1988 89 301 [Western Europe = Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal] Middle Europe 1985 89 272 Middle Europe 1986 89 272 Middle Europe 1987 89 272 Middle Europe 1988 89 272 [Middle Europe = Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, DDR, DBR, France, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia] Eastern Europe ? ? ? // assume Middle Europe? [Eastern Europe = Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, Western USSR] ??Others?? ? ? ? I know that the Congress is fooling around with changing the start and finish dates for the USA instead of working on changes to the tax code [editorial comment :-)]. Has there been similar changes in any other country? Any information or leads to information will be appreciated! Bob Devine Burroughs Distributed Systems Group/Boulder, CO. seismo!hao!asgb!devine OR [ihnp4!sabre OR sdcrdcf OR sdcsvax]!bmcg!asgb!devine
Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +SENDMAIL+2.11; site dcl-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen From: step...@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time -- help! Message-ID: <770@dcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 13:28:21 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.770 Posted: Sat Nov 9 13:28:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:01:02 EST References: <810@asgb.UUCP> Reply-To: step...@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University. Lines: 16 In article <8...@asgb.UUCP> dev...@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine) writes: > I'm working on a conversion routine for a product that we plan >to sell wherever we do business. Timezone information for the >various countries is easily available, but, Daylight Saving Time >rules are hard to obtain (many European countries seem to change >them from year to year). We currently switch on the last Sunday of March/October (Great Britain). The government is considering changing to permanent British Summer Time. This was tried in the past, in 1971 and 1972, then changed back. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen DARPA: stephen%comp.lancs.ac.uk@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: step...@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4599 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR