/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe

[Allan Engelhardt]

Hi,

The europe file as distributed by Sun Microsystems has, as far as I
can tell, a small bug in the Europe/London zone.  My diff is included
below.  At least the Sun seems to need the one hour offset  in the
RULES part instead of the GMTOFF.  I have a small test program that
shows the problem; if you are interested let me know.  the problem
only affects dates in the 1968-1971 period.

Cheers,

	--- Allan

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--- [% diff -c europe /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe] ---
*** europe	Tue Apr 23 16:03:54 1996
--- /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/europe	Sat Jul 16 05:47:47 1994
***************
*** 661,667 ****
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone	Europe/London	-0:00:37 -	LMT	1847 Sep 22
  			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Feb 18 2:00
! 			 0:00	1:00	BST	1971 Oct 31 2:00    # Fixed -AE-
  			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s
  Zone	Europe/Belfast	-0:23:40 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2
  			-0:25:21 -	DMT	1916 May 21 2:00    # Dublin MT
--- 661,667 ----
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone	Europe/London	-0:00:37 -	LMT	1847 Sep 22
  			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Feb 18 2:00
! 			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31 2:00
  			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s
  Zone	Europe/Belfast	-0:23:40 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2
  			-0:25:21 -	DMT	1916 May 21 2:00    # Dublin MT