A FreeBSD contributor avers that the then-DDR began observing summer time a year [earlier|later] than the BRD, and further claims that the correct BRD start date should be 1979, not 1980 (and this the DDR would be [1978|1980]). (I have since deleted the message so I don't recall which direction the difference was.) According to the existing practice, then, there should be a different rule for locations which were in the DDR. I have no notion of which would be the most populous city in this case, but perhaps <joerg@freebsd.org> can provide more detailed information. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 13:12:34 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> A FreeBSD contributor avers that the then-DDR began observing summer time a year [earlier|later] than the BRD, and further claims that the correct BRD start date should be 1979, not 1980 (and this the DDR would be [1978|1980]). (I have since deleted the message so I don't recall which direction the difference was.) It would be helpful to have a reference for this info. I just rechecked Shanks (1991), who partitions modern Germany into seven regions with distinct time zone histories, with representatives Frankfurt, Berlin, Karlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgart, Saarbruecken, and Cologne. Shanks reports that all the time zone histories are identical since 1946. I checked several cities in the former east Germany, and in Shanks's tables they are all like Berlin.
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