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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
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Posted: Sat Nov  9 13:28:21 1985
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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.
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