Lithuanian time zone changed (again)

Marius Gedminas mgedmin at takas.lt
Sun Oct 31 10:36:24 UTC 1999


Hello,

I'd like to inform that Lithuanian time zone is changed back to EET again.

A patch (for tzdata1999e package) follows:
--- europe.orig Wed Aug 25 09:00:01 1999
+++ europe      Sun Oct 31 12:23:36 1999
@@ -1702,7 +1702,8 @@
                        2:00    1:00    EEST    1991 Sep 29 2:00s
                        2:00    C-Eur   EE%sT   1998
                        2:00    -       EET     1998 Mar 29 1:00u
-                       1:00    EU      CE%sT
+                       1:00    EU      CE%sT   1999 Oct 31 1:00u
+                       2:00    EU      EE%sT
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
 # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it
 # is
 # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here
 # too.
@@ -1710,6 +1711,9 @@
 # From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin at pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07):
 # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone
 # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed.
+
+# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin at takas.lt> (1999-10-31):
+# Changing timezones seems to be popular among Lithuanian politics.

 # Luxembourg
 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with
 # Shanks.


Best Regards,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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