On Jul 21, 2015, at 11:19 AM, Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com> wrote:
Given the existing caveats about "don't trust that values before 1970 are historically accurate" I think it's reasonable to simply assume standard time before then, isn't it? Having said that, WET and EET are somewhat interesting in that their first transitions are in 1977 - so after the "accuracy watershed" so to speak. That does complicate things somewhat.
I get: WET Initially: +00:00:00 standard WET 1977-04-03T01:00:00Z +01:00:00 daylight WEST 1977-09-25T01:00:00Z +00:00:00 standard WET 1978-04-02T01:00:00Z +01:00:00 daylight WEST … and: EET Initially: +02:00:00 standard EET 1977-04-03T01:00:00Z +03:00:00 daylight EEST 1977-09-25T01:00:00Z +02:00:00 standard EET 1978-04-02T01:00:00Z +03:00:00 daylight EEST … Howard