David Carrara said:
Good day, i'm writting to you about the file "europe" taken from tzdata-latest.tar.gz
I read in it : « # There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules]. # A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact # national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the # different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed # in the Directive. »
But i think this is small imprecision. in our European official documents there is a directive saying WHEN to change but i've never seen any directive saying we had to change (each country is free).
Sorry, but you're wrong. Article 2 requires the "summer-time period" to begin on a certain date-time, and Article 1 defines the "summer-time period" as putting the clocks forward by 60 minutes. Therefore every Member State must put its clocks forward and back. (Except for the overseas territories exempted in Article 6.)
Furthermore, the tzdata file says « only contentious issue was the different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed in the Directive. » But when I read the directive I see no exception about them.
The current Directive doesn't have an exemption, but earlier ones did. See Article 3.2 of Directive 94/21/EC: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31994L0021:EN:HT... -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646