proposed tz change for Latvia, Lithuania

[Paul Eggert]

It's March Madness time for daylight-saving rule changes.
Here's a proposed change to the tz database to keep up with the latest
political development, which affects time stamps starting March 29:

* Latvia and Lithuania will not observe DST, starting this year.

Thanks to Andrei Ivanov for this info.

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RCS file: RCS/europe,v
retrieving revision 2000.3
retrieving revision 2000.3.0.1
diff -pu -r2000.3 -r2000.3.0.1
--- europe	2000/03/04 15:31:08	2000.3
+++ europe	2000/03/08 17:48:59	2000.3.0.1
@@ -1135,6 +1135,12 @@ Link	Europe/Rome	Europe/San_Marino
 # 1997-01-21 on transition to Summer time ... established the same order of
 # daylight savings time settings as in the States of the European Union.
 
+# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
+# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in
+# <a href="http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm">
+# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of
+# 29-Feb-2000 (#79)</a>, in Latvian for subscribers only).
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
 Rule	Latvia	1989	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
@@ -1151,7 +1157,8 @@ Zone	Europe/Riga	1:36:24	-	LMT	1880
 			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1989 Mar lastSun 2:00s
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	1989 Sep lastSun 2:00s
 			2:00	Latvia	EE%sT	1997 Jan 21
-			2:00	EU	EE%sT
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2000 Feb 29
+			2:00	-	EET
 
 # Liechtenstein
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -1178,6 +1185,11 @@ Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:38:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
 # motion to give up shifting to summer time in spring, as it was
 # already done by Estonia. 
 
+# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
+# I've heard that Ministers of three Baltic countries on their summit
+# somewhere in February decided not to switch to summer time starting from
+# this spring.
+
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Europe/Vilnius	1:41:16	-	LMT	1880
 			1:24:00	-	WMT	1917	    # Warsaw Mean Time
@@ -1192,7 +1204,8 @@ Zone	Europe/Vilnius	1:41:16	-	LMT	1880
 			2:00	C-Eur	EE%sT	1998
 			2:00	-	EET	1998 Mar 29 1:00u
 			1:00	EU	CE%sT	1999 Oct 31 1:00u
-			2:00	EU	EE%sT
+			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2000 Feb
+			2:00	-	EET
 
 # Luxembourg
 # Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.