Guy Harris via tz said:
It is a form of daylight saving time in which standard time is in effect during summer months, rather than the usual case where standard time is in effect during winter months.
to clarify it ("the opposite compensation to the summer time" is "opposite" only in the sense that standard time is ahead of non-standard time rather than being behind it - it's not "opposite" in the sense of "the clocks go forward in the winter and backward in the summer", which I see as an equally valid sense of "opposite", and one which I suspect might be the sense most ordinary folk, as opposed to time nerds, would see "opposite" in this case).
(And if anybody claims that it means that daylight saving time is in effect during the winter, I'm going to {{cn}} the heck out of that claim.)
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