Sept. 2, 1999
10:38 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Paul Eggert wrote:
# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and # if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
+# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST'; let's assume this is a typo. +
FWIW, although the main records of double summer time in the Public Record Office (HO 144/22703 and HO 144/22704) are closed for 100 years, some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516) agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945). -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk