From e9ef7c6cad998ebee1ac4078b4274664f5f71c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 10:53:10 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED 2/2] Cite the French Annuaire * europe: Cite the Annuaire par le Bureau des Longitudes (thanks to Robert H. van Gent). --- europe | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/europe b/europe index f1dfe99e..69beb397 100644 --- a/europe +++ b/europe @@ -1310,6 +1310,13 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:49 - LMT 1878 May 31 # France # Monaco +# From Robert H. van Gent (2025-07-21): +# The most recent issue of the Annuaire [par le Bureau des Longitudes] +# on Gallica (2021) ... lists information for France +# https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9127672b/f52.item +# From Paul Eggert (2025-07-21): +# Go with the 2020 Annuaire (published 2021) except as noted below. + # From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20): # # Henri Le Corre, Régimes horaires pour le monde entier, Éditions @@ -1371,7 +1378,6 @@ Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:49 - LMT 1878 May 31 # problems in Algiers, Monaco and Tunis. # -# Shank & Pottenger seem to use '24:00' ambiguously; resolve it with Whitman. # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 - @@ -1385,7 +1391,13 @@ Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S # DISHO writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st # Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions -# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. +# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Apparently spring 1923 was tricky: the New York +# Times (1923-05-16 p 12 c 2) reported that the Chamber of Deputies on May 15 +# "after a strong appeal by Premier Poincaré, consented at last to +# pass the bill authorizing daylight saving time for this year in +# France.... The bill must now go before the Senate ...". +# Use the 2020 Annuaire dates, except for spring 1923 where +# Shanks & Pottenger's May 26 seems more plausible. Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 - Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S -- 2.48.1