Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Wed, 4 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote:
Fills the picture. Europe/Isle_of_Man exists in it's own right up to 1883, and then it follows Europe/London.
Well - subject to confirming it did so during WW2, as you drew my attention to that issue. The (UK) Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 includes provision (subsection 4(1)(a)) for it to be extended to the Isle of Man by Order in Council, but I don't have a specific reference to such an Order in Council (presumably a UK SR&O) doing so. (All the subsequent regulations then worked by modification of an Act also applying to the Isle of Man, so if they had the power to apply there then they would have done so.)
I've been slowly reading through the IOM Hansard documents but not found any discrepancies yet, but I have a few years to go ...
I'm fairly sure from the IOM documents that Jersey and Guernsey followed the same date, but their archives have not got that far back yet. So do we have to duplicate the whole zone record each timezone to add this one item of data?
We have dates of legal adoption of GMT in Jersey (around 4pm on Saturday 11 June 1898) and Guernsey (18 June 1913). Can I take those dates as facts we can add to the tz data? Is there any indication of the islands using a different time prior or like the main land they were already using 'GMT' and this just formalised it? Typically I can't find the reference to Channel Islands again, but it was probably the later Summer Time changes I'm mixing up.
What we don't have is full details from WW1 or WW2, beyond the quote about time being put forward under occupation in WW2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orders_of_the_German_Commandant_Evening_P... gives one transition time as 11pm on 2 July 1940 in Jersey and we do have reasonably detailed information on German time from the PTB). Certainly if the cut-off is 1945 or before, you need different data for them than for Europe/London and we don't have the full information (whereas after 1945, the links to Europe/London are probably correct).
I was on Jersey earlier in the year and certainly read up about that but I've misplaced the paper notes I made at the time :( Paul can I use rules from another zone to fill this gap? I presume so as we have different rules already, but I don't think I've digested enough to know how. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk