EU Summer Time update [forwarded with permission]

Arthur David Olson ado
Tue Mar 29 13:43:24 UTC 1994


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> From: Peter Ilieve <peter at memex.co.uk>
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> Subject: EU Summer Time update
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> I now have a copy of the proposal for the 7th EC directive on summer time
> arrangements (COM (93) 439 final, 27 September 1993). This is not yet
> a formal directive, treat this as advance warning, some dates may still
> change.
> 
> I what looks like a triumph of British obduracy over the poor benighted
> foreigners it is proposed to move to a common end date of the 4th Sunday
> in October from 1997 so the foreigners will have their winter benightment
> postponed by a month. The EC Commission actually asked its tame polling
> organisation to conduct one of its Eurobarometer surveys which showed
> `that European public opinion is very much in favour of having summer
> time extended until the end of October'.
> 
> The dates proposed are:
> 
> 1995: last Sunday in March (26 March) to last Sunday in September (24 Sep)
>       (UK & Eire ending on 4th Sunday in October (22 Oct))
> 1996: last Sunday in March (31 March) to last Sunday in September (29 Sep)
>       (UK & Eire ending on 4th Sunday in October (27 Oct))
> 1997: last Sunday in March (30 March) to 4th Sunday in October (26 Oct)
> 1998: last Sunday in March (29 March) to 4th Sunday in October (25 Oct)
> 
> The UK/Eire end date of 22 October conflicts with your current rule of
> Oct Sun>=23, and the historical UK formula of Sun after 4th Sat.  The
> last time 4th Sun and Sun after 4th Sat differed was in 1989, when 29
> October was used. That year was covered by a UK Summer Time Order for
> only a single year and it looks as though there was a matching 4th EC
> directive for just this year. I don't have the text of the 5th EC
> directive (for 1990--92) but my guess would be it said 4th Sun. To
> maintain strict historical accuracy you could start a new UK ending
> rule of Oct Sun>=22 in 1990. A similar rule will be needed for all the
> -Eur rules from 1997.
> 
> Negotiations about joinging the EU have been concluded with Austria,
> Finland, Norway and Sweden and if the current argument among the existing
> members about consequential changes in voting rules can be resolved
> they should join on 1 Jan 1995, and will presumably use the same
> summer time rules as the existing members. I don't know what they do now.
> 
> As I said, this is only a proposal at present. The EC information office
> in Edinburgh could give a guesstimate of when the final version might
> emerge. The Home Office guessed at the end of May.
> I will keep you posted.
> 
> 
> 		Peter Ilieve		peter at memex.co.uk



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