devine@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine) (11/07/85)
Please, if you post a reply to this, reply to "net.internat". I'm working on a conversion routine for a product that we plan to sell wherever we do business. Timezone information for the various countries is easily available, but, Daylight Saving Time rules are hard to obtain (many European countries seem to change them from year to year). I am using tables put together from a variety of sources that are incomplete and may be wrong. Can anybody complete/correct the start- and finish-date tables for Daylight Saving Time for the following countries/regions? The 'start' and 'finish' dates are starting points in a search for the next Sunday on which the change from standard to daylight time occurs. country year start finish ------- ---- ----- ------ USA all 119 303 Australia all 303 65 South Africa all 303 65 New Zealand all 303 65 Western Europe 1985 89 303 Western Europe 1986 89 301 Western Europe 1987 89 301 Western Europe 1988 89 301 [Western Europe = Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal] Middle Europe 1985 89 272 Middle Europe 1986 89 272 Middle Europe 1987 89 272 Middle Europe 1988 89 272 [Middle Europe = Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, DDR, DBR, France, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia] Eastern Europe ? ? ? // assume Middle Europe? [Eastern Europe = Bulgaria, Finland, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, Western USSR] ??Others?? ? ? ? I know that the Congress is fooling around with changing the start and finish dates for the USA instead of working on changes to the tax code [editorial comment :-)]. Has there been similar changes in any other country? Any information or leads to information will be appreciated! Bob Devine Burroughs Distributed Systems Group/Boulder, CO. seismo!hao!asgb!devine OR [ihnp4!sabre OR sdcrdcf OR sdcsvax]!bmcg!asgb!devine