Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +SENDMAIL+2.11; site dcl-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time -- help! Message-ID: <770@dcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 13:28:21 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.770 Posted: Sat Nov 9 13:28:21 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:01:02 EST References: <810@asgb.UUCP> Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University. Lines: 16 In article <810@asgb.UUCP> devine@asgb.UUCP (Robert J. Devine) writes: > 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). We currently switch on the last Sunday of March/October (Great Britain). The government is considering changing to permanent British Summer Time. This was tried in the past, in 1971 and 1972, then changed back. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen DARPA: stephen%comp.lancs.ac.uk@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: stephen@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4599 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR