[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH 4/4] * europe: Add Countess Markievicz's take on the Summer Time Act, 1916.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Nov 1 06:37:18 UTC 2014


---
 europe | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/europe b/europe
index be93bb4..83a3531 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -290,6 +290,14 @@
 #   "Timeball on the ballast office is down.  Dunsink time."
 #   -- James Joyce, Ulysses
 
+# "Countess Markievicz ... claimed that the [1916] abolition of Dublin Mean Time
+# was among various actions undertaken by the 'English' government that
+# would 'put the whole country into the SF (Sinn Féin) camp'.  She claimed
+# Irish 'public feeling (was) outraged by forcing of English time on us'."
+# -- Parsons M. Dublin lost its time zone - and 25 minutes - after 1916 Rising.
+# Irish Times 2014-10-27.
+# http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/dublin-lost-its-time-zone-and-25-minutes-after-1916-rising-1.1977411
+
 # From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26):
 # Irish laws are available online at <http://www.irishstatutebook.ie>.
 # These include various relating to legal time, for example:
-- 
1.9.1



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