From 05c08c6a63fdde62686974850b2a3e6528598822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 19:19:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Fix Finland's 1942 fall-back transition. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * europe (Finland), NEWS: Finland's 1942 fall-back transition was 10-04 01:00, not 10-03 00:00. (Thanks to Konstantin Hyppönen.) --- NEWS | 5 +++++ europe | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e789d40..4ceddbe 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting past time stamps + + Finland's 1942 fall-back transition was October 4 at 01:00, not + October 3 at 00:00. (Thanks to Konstantin Hyppönen.) + Changes affecting commentary Commentary now uses UTF-8 instead of US-ASCII, allowing the use of diff --git a/europe b/europe index f6fd0f9..a68797a 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -1098,9 +1098,21 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 # The news clip from 1981 says that "the time between 2 and 3 o'clock does not # exist tonight." +# From Konstantin Hyppönen (2014-06-13): +# [Heikki Oja's book Aikakirja 2013] +# http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/images/aikakirja/Aikakirja2013kokonaan.pdf +# pages 104-105, including a scan from a newspaper published on Apr 2 1942 +# say that ... [o]n Apr 2 1942, 24 o'clock (which means Apr 3 1942, +# 00:00), clocks were moved one hour forward. The newspaper +# mentions "on the night from Thursday to Friday".... +# On Oct 4 1942, clocks were moved at 1:00 one hour backwards. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-14): +# Go with Oja over Shanks. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - +Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 2 24:00 1:00 S +Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 4 1:00 0 - Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -- 1.9.1