Thanks for the information. We already had a bug on Ireland; I'll add the information to that, and file another bug for the double-summer time. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> To: <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Cc: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 16:47 Subject: Re: Timezone translations
"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> writes:
I don't know if Ireland uses the term GMT and BST, or something else. Probably the latter.
Our information is that the Republic of Ireland uses "GMT" and "IST" (short for "Irish Summer Time"). An anonymous tz contributor verified this with the Secretary of the Irish Department of Justice.
A couple of other points. First, the tz database uses "BDST" for "British Double Summer Time", most recently observed in 1947. Second, the abbreviation "BST" is ambiguous even in Britain: for time stamps from 1968-10-27 to 1971-10-31 it means "British Standard Time", not "British Summer Time". This British Standard Time is one hour ahead of UTC but it is standard time, not summer time.
This sort of thing may all sound fairly baroque, but if it happened in the past it's possible it'll happen in the future, and a comprehensive time zone translation scheme should be able to support it.