another slight uncertainty in zone Europe/Paris resolved
In zone Europe/Paris one finds this comment: # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00 I have found a documented source, which confirms that le Corre is correct and Shanks incorrect: Yvonne Poulle quotes in her article 'La France a l'heure allemande' the 'Bulletin municipal officiel', the official Paris city bulletin of 1940-06-15, which consisted only of one sheet of paper, with the following instruction for the population of Paris and Seine: --- (my translation from French) The prefecture of the Seine and the prefecture of the police communicate: The population is invited to advance clocks and watches on June 14th at 23 hours, so that they are adjusted forward to midnight. --- end quote
Would be nice if anyone could actually show sources for that claim. A source (2) that only refers to a source (1) can never be more reliable than than the source it refers to. While the revers can be true. t On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alois Treindl <alois@astro.ch> wrote:
In zone Europe/Paris one finds this comment: # Shanks & Pottenger give 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre. 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00
I have found a documented source, which confirms that le Corre is correct and Shanks incorrect:
Yvonne Poulle quotes in her article 'La France a l'heure allemande' the 'Bulletin municipal officiel', the official Paris city bulletin of 1940-06-15, which consisted only of one sheet of paper, with the following instruction for the population of Paris and Seine: --- (my translation from French) The prefecture of the Seine and the prefecture of the police communicate: The population is invited to advance clocks and watches on June 14th at 23 hours, so that they are adjusted forward to midnight. --- end quote
-- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/tobias_conradi
Yvonne Poulle's article I quote is very easy to find via google. Just enter her name and the title of the article. This is why I not bothered to copy the link in my posting. For example here http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1999_nu... When one reads it and and sees how scholarly and precise she annotates and quotes, one can trust that her verbal quote from the Bulletin is solid. By far superior to what otherwise has been used as sources for many parts of tzdata history. On 16.09.11 17:14, Tobias Conradi wrote:
Would be nice if anyone could actually show sources for that claim.
A source (2) that only refers to a source (1) can never be more reliable than than the source it refers to. While the revers can be true.
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