From 2999bb5bee719acbba8b9dd50fb9fb00c7788623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 23:14:02 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] =?UTF-8?q?Remove=20some=20invented=20abbreviations=20i?= =?UTF-8?q?n=20=E2=80=98europe=E2=80=99?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * NEWS: Document this. * europe (America/Danmarkshavn, America/Scoresbysund, America/Godthab) (Atlantic/Reykjavik, Europe/Amsterdam, Atlantic/Azores) (Atlantic/Madeira, Europe/Zaporozhye): Use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones, for time zones with UT offsets that are integer minutes. --- NEWS | 10 ++++---- europe | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 1b9fa5a..1bd1914 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -50,10 +50,12 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes America/Sao_Paulo, Antarctica/Palmer, Atlantic/South_Georgia, Atlantic/Stanley, Pacific/Easter, and Pacific/Galapagos. - Similarly, switch to numeric time zone abbreviations for St Pierre - and Miquelon time, for half-hour DST in Belize before 1944 and in - the Dominican Republic before 1975, and for Canary Island time - before 1946. + Similarly, switch from invented to numeric time zone abbreviations + for Greenland, the Azores, and St Pierre and Miquelon; for + half-hour DST in Belize before 1944 and in the Dominican Republic + before 1975; and for Canary Islands before 1946, for Madeira + before 1967, for Iceland before 1969, for the Netherlands in + 1937-9, and for Zaporozhye in 1880-1924. For Alaska time from 1900 through 1967, instead of "CAT" use the abbreviation "AST", the abbreviation commonly used at the time diff --git a/europe b/europe index 048d521..c281449 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. -# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): +# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-27): # # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), @@ -56,26 +56,23 @@ # History of Summer Time # # (1998-09-21, in Portuguese) - # # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table; -# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. -# Corrections are welcome! -# std dst 2dst -# LMT Local Mean Time -# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic -# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland* -# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland* -# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer -# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer -# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe -# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)* -# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)* -# 1:00 BST British Standard (1968-1971) -# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe -# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* -# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe -# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow +# the rest are variants of the "xMT" pattern for a city's mean time, +# or are from other sources. Corrections are welcome! +# std dst 2dst +# LMT Local Mean Time +# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic +# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer +# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer +# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe +# 0:19:32.13 AMT* NST* Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937) +# 1:00 BST British Standard (1968-1971) +# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899) +# 1:36:34 RMT* LST* Riga, Latvian Summer (1880-1926)* +# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe +# 3:00 MSK MSD MDST* Moscow # From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, @@ -475,7 +472,7 @@ Link Europe/London Europe/Isle_of_Man # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 - -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 + -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00 @@ -1064,16 +1061,16 @@ Rule Thule 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 - -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 - -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996 + -3:00 - -03 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU -03/-02 1996 0:00 - GMT Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:27:52 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit - -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 - -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29 - -1:00 EU EG%sT + -2:00 - -02 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -2:00 C-Eur -02/-01 1981 Mar 29 + -1:00 EU -01/+00 Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk - -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 - -3:00 EU WG%sT + -3:00 - -03 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU -03/-02 Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT @@ -1488,7 +1485,7 @@ Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 - -1:00 Iceland IS%sT 1968 Apr 7 1:00s + -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s 0:00 - GMT # Italy @@ -1952,7 +1949,7 @@ Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 - 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 16 0:00 # Dutch Time + 0:20 Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16 0:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -2171,14 +2168,30 @@ Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:45 - LMT 1884 0:00 EU WE%sT Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada -1:54:32 - HMT 1912 Jan 1 # Horta Mean Time - -2:00 Port AZO%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Azores Time - -1:00 Port AZO%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s - -1:00 W-Eur AZO%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1942 Apr 25 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1942 Aug 15 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1943 Apr 17 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1943 Aug 28 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1944 Apr 22 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1944 Aug 26 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1945 Apr 21 22:00s + -2:00 Port +00 1945 Aug 25 22:00s + -2:00 Port -02/-01 1966 Apr 3 2:00 + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1983 Sep 25 1:00s + -1:00 W-Eur -01/+00 1992 Sep 27 1:00s 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Mar 28 1:00u - -1:00 EU AZO%sT + -1:00 EU -01/+00 Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal -1:07:36 - FMT 1912 Jan 1 # Funchal Mean Time - -1:00 Port MAD%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Madeira Time + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1942 Apr 25 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1942 Aug 15 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1943 Apr 17 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1943 Aug 28 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1944 Apr 22 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1944 Aug 26 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1945 Apr 21 22:00s + -1:00 Port +01 1945 Aug 25 22:00s + -1:00 Port -01/+00 1966 Apr 3 2:00 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s 0:00 EU WE%sT @@ -3738,7 +3751,7 @@ Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct # spelling, except omit the apostrophe as it is not allowed in # portable Posix file names. Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 - 2:20 - CUT 1924 May 2 # Central Ukraine T + 2:20 - +0220 1924 May 2 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 -- 2.7.4