On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, John Cowan wrote:
This seems to be a substantive change from earlier versions of this directive, in which the start and end of summer time was standardized, but not whether a Member State actually adopted it or not. Or do I misunderstand?
The previous directives also include much the same requirement for a summer-time period in all Member States. (Though in some of the earlier directives there were different end dates for the UK and Ireland and the other Member States, and in some cases those different end dates were optional and the UK and Ireland could have chosen but didn't choose to adopt the dates for the other Member States, before it was decided that the whole EU would move to October dates as had been used in the UK and Ireland.) -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk