proposed tz change for Latvia, Lithuania

[Andrei Ivanov]

Hey, Paul, 
I'm not 100% sure about Lithuania, so it would be better
not to update Europe/Vilnius zone until someone more knowledgeable
would confirm the fact. I wrote about Latvia only.
--
andrei

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Paul Eggert wrote:

> 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.
> 
> ===================================================================
> 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.
>