Thank you. This is also what I find: NO DST in 1979,1980,1981,1982 Besides resmigazete, I have also started to search newspaper archives. http://gazetearsivi.milliyet.com.tr (Milliyet) is free and searchable. Even without speaking any Turkish, I can confirm: The time change on 2 April 1978 (begin of DST) is announced on page 1 the day before. There is no such time change announcement on a further date in 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982. I have alaways checke the papers on the supposed data, and the day before. My search keyword is saat I find the next time change announcement in the paper on 30 July 1983, for the change on 31 July 83, 2:00 am. On 12.08.19 19:37, Kıvanç Yazan wrote:
Hi! Here's some "resmi gazete" links for those years.
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14539.pdf (page 24) 1973-06-03 01:00 -> 02:00 1973-11-04 02:00 -> 01:00
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/14829.pdf (page 1) 1974-03-31 02:00 -> 03:00 1974-11-03 02:00 -> 01:00
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15161.pdf (page 1) 1975-03-22 02:00 -> 03:00 1975-11-02 02:00 -> 01:00
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15535_1.pdf (page 1) 1976-03-21 02:00 -> 03:00 1976-10-31 02:00 -> 01:00
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/15778.pdf (page 5) 1977-04-03 02:00 -> 03:00 1977-10-16 02:00 -> 01:00 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below) 1979-04-01 02:00 -> 03:00 (not applied, see below) 1979-10-14 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied, see below)
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16245.pdf (page 17) This cancels the previous decision, and repeats it only for 1978. 1978-04-02 02:00 -> 03:00 1978-10-15 02:00 -> 01:00 (not applied due to standard TZ change below)
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/16331.pdf (page 3) This decision changes the default longitude for Turkish time zone from 30 degrees East to 45 degrees East. This means a standard TZ change, from +2 to +3. This is published & applied on 1978-06-29. At that time, Turkey was already on summer time (already on 45E). Hence, this new law just meant an "continuous summer time". Note that this was reversed in a few years.
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18119_1.pdf (page 1) 1983-07-31 02:00 -> 03:00 (note that this jumps TZ to +4) 1983-10-02 02:00 -> 01:00 (back to +3)
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18561.pdf (page 1 and 34) At this time, Turkey is still on +3 with no spring-forward on early 1984. This decision is published on 10/31/1984. Page 1 declares the decision of reverting the "default longitude change". So the standard time should go back to +3 (30E). And page 34 explains when that will happen: 1984-11-01 02:00 -> 01:00 You can think of this as "end of continuous summer time, change of standard time zone".
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/18713.pdf (page 1) 1985-04-20 01:00 -> 02:00 1985-09-28 02:00 -> 01:00
From 1986 on, you can see my previous comments here: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/europe#L3671
Thanks, Kivanc Yazan