old time zones (europe)

[Bernard Sieloff]

Rolf-Martin Mantel writes:
[...]
> Also, according to the Germany entry and to my vague memory, Germany
> introduced DST in 1980 rather than 1981, which put pressure on all the
> small ES countries to come to some kind of harmonisation.

That's correct. I have here a paper from the PTB (Physikalisch-Technische
Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig - the responsible "time authority" for Germany)
which states:

1980:  Apr. 6  to Sept. 28 (!!)
1981:  Mar. 29 to Sept. 27
...

Bernard Sieloff
U of Saarbruecken, Germany