On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:
This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of 29-Feb-2000 (#79).
I've heared that Ministers of three Baltic countries on their summit somewhere in February decided not to switch to summer time starting from this spring. In your latest 'europe' file this fact for Estonia is already reflected (Europe/Tallinn). Today I've got questions from my customers on how to not to switch to DST under Solaris and RedHat Linux, so, preparing instructions for proper changes, I decided to check with "Latvijas Vestnesis", our official newspaper. Few days ago, 02-Mar-2000, there were new Regulations published, containing statement, that previous regulations, as of 21-Jan-1997, are repealed. The document (in Latvian only) is available for subscribers at http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm
Thanks very much for this info. I'll include your change in my next proposed patch. I assume it's OK to give you credit for reporting this, and to date the change Feb 29 (the date of Regulation #79); if
I think, your are right.
not, please let me know. I could not find a copy of the regulation on the Web, but I can't read Latvian so my search powers are limited.
See URL above (but the document is Latvian only, and not available for general public w/out subscription :-()
UTC+2 is the closest meridian to Riga, so this new regulation makes astronomical sense. However, according to the tz database, until now Riga was at UTC+2 for the whole year from 1927 through 1939 only.
Regards, -- andrei