Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:12:34 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> A FreeBSD contributor avers that the then-DDR began observing summer time a year [earlier|later] than the BRD, and further claims that the correct BRD start date should be 1979, not 1980 (and this the DDR would be [1978|1980]). (I have since deleted the message so I don't recall which direction the difference was.) It would be helpful to have a reference for this info. I just rechecked Shanks (1991), who partitions modern Germany into seven regions with distinct time zone histories, with representatives Frankfurt, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgart, Saarbruecken, and Cologne. Shanks reports that all the time zone histories are identical since 1946. I checked several cities in the former east Germany, and in Shanks's tables they are all like Berlin.