--- NEWS | 2 ++ europe | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7be4d95..18cf4fa 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes tz-link.htm mentions Time Zone Database Parser (thanks to Howard Hinnant). + Mention that Herbert Samuel introduced the term "Summer Time". + Release 2015e - 2015-06-13 10:56:02 -0700 diff --git a/europe b/europe index 28b2b93..6b89b6e 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -193,11 +193,14 @@ # republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26 # http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf -# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): +# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08): # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving" # when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer". +# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see: +# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press +# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8. # From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19): # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's -- 2.1.4