Finnish summer time (DST) rule
Jukka A. Ukkonen
jau at iki.fi
Fri May 12 05:56:26 UTC 2006
Greetings from Kirkkonummi (32km from Helsinki),
The correct DST rule (in POSIX TZ syntax) for Finland has
been at least since 2002
EET-02:00EEST-03:00,M3.5.0/03:00,M10.5.0/04:00
Notice that in there the zone change times are represented
in the local time of the zone which is current at the moment
when the change shall take place - i.e. both local times
actually refer to 01:00 GMT.
I guess Finland used this rule already several years before
the common EU directive officially harmonized the DST rules
all around EU from 2002 onwards.
The EU directive can be found here...
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2001/l_031/l_03120010202en00210022.pdf
I will let you know, if I find more precise info about when
Finland actually adopted the current DST rule.
Cheers,
// jau
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