My relative in Estonia reports a rather confused picture. The law is clear enough: this year they changed to the EU rule time of 01:00 UTC from their previous midnight UTC. This is a change from 04:00 -> 03:00 local time. The newspapers didn't catch up though. They were still saying it was a change from 03:00 -> 02:00 local time. They can perhaps be forgiven for this as the new law was only dated 22 September. This spring in the UK the Times (a supposed `newspaper of record') printed a picture of a clock showing it going from 02:00 to 03:00. We haven't done that since 1980. The Estonian law can be found at: http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390 Knowing my poor grasp of Estonian he offers the following free translation: According to the association agreement between the EU and the Republic of Estonia ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22--27, 120) and in accordance with the 8th directive of EU 22. July 1997, 97/44/EU (EUT L 206, 1.08.1997, pp 62--63) the Government of Estonia decides to change to Summer Time as follows 1) start 3.00 by the zone time (1.00 GMT) on last sunday of March changing to 4.00; 2) end 4.00 by the zone time (1.00 GMT) on last sunday of October changing to 3.00) I also asked him whether they use any standard abbreviation for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg" (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time). He says there is still some discussion about whether they should continue fiddling with the clocks but didn't provide any specifics. Most Estonian newspapers have web pages linked from http://www.ee/www/Media/Journalism/Newspapers/welcome.html. The papers' pages are nearly all in Estonian only so I can't offer any more clues. Finally, this just confirms the existing data. No change is needed to the europe file. Peter Ilieve peter@aldie.co.uk