Wallace, Malcolm wrote:
No attempt was made to show whether Liechtenstein follows the timezone rules for neighbouring Switzerland
Actually I made the attempt, and came up empty. And it wasn't a casual attempt: I scoured the literature, both online and in paper, in both English and German, in the best research library in southern California. Of course I may have missed something, and the National Library of Liechtenstein would probably be a better library for this; but I did try. Alois Treindl wrote:
Vaduz (Liechtenstein) is a different country, with a different timezone history: no DST in 1941 and 1942.
I'm sorry, but there is no real evidence to support this claim, and I doubt that it's true. Shanks doesn't count as evidence, as he just makes things up. The Swiss astrology books don't count either, as they just make things up too -- my recent research proved them to be inventions even for *Switzerland*, so why should we pay attention to them for a neighboring country? Perhaps in the future someone will report good evidence for Liechtenstein. If that happens we can put a Zone entry for Vaduz into the database instead of merely having a Link. In the meantime, "We guess it's like Switzerland" is better than what was in the tz database before. (I suspect that "it's like Switzerland" is all that the astrologers guessed too, it's just that they were sloppier about it.) It's not just Liechtenstein. Similar issues afflict several other places in the tz database, some fixed already in 2013d, some fixed by the proposed changes, and others still awaiting work. I'm not talking merely about entries that are poorly sourced. I'm talking about entries that (given what we know now) are likely wrong.