On 2019-09-05 16:20, Alois Treindl wrote:
This is just a question to some well informed readers of this mailing list.
Liberated France ended daylight saving time on 8 October 1944, 01:00, as represented in zone Europe/Paris.
Eastern parts of France were still occupied by the German army at that time, and Germany ended DST in 1944 on 2 October 1922, 02:00s = 03:00, as represented in TZ by Europe/Berlin, rule C-Eur.
For occupied France however, Shanks claims the end of DST on 3 Oct 1944 03:00. For all other countries in Europe on German time at that moment, Shanks holds that DST ended 2 October, like in Germany itself.
I cannot find a source supporting Shanks' claim for the deviation in France.
Does anyone have information supporting Shanks' claim?
I only have a source arguing against that claim of Shanks'. The paper [Yvonne Poulle: "La France à l’heure allemande"], online at [https://www.persee.fr/doc/bec_0373-6237_1999_num_157_2_450989], describes at length how France arrived at a common civil time scale in both occupied and free territory. It seems to say [p 501] that the switch to summer time (UT + 02 h) in 1944 followed German rules, while the switch back to UT + 01 h was as ordered by the provisional government. Michael Deckers.