R: FW: Time Zone in Paris
Katia
katia at astrologiainlinea.it
Sat Sep 25 10:44:03 UTC 2010
Thank you for your reply and for having put my question in the mailing lists to which I will enjoy soon.
The problem is that according to the downloaded version of the database on the Google site for updates http://code.google.com/p/tzdata/ in 1971 the time zone in Paris wasn't one hour ahead of UTC.
Here is part of Paris file in XML version
<from>1945-04-02T01:00:00Z</from>
<to>1945-09-16T01:00:00Z</to>
<dst>true</dst>
<offset>7200</offset>
<name>WEMT</name>
</period>
- <period>
<from>1945-09-16T01:00:00Z</from>
<to>1976-03-28T01:00:00Z</to>
<dst>false</dst>
<offset>0</offset>
<name>WET</name>
</period>
- <period>
Is that file correct ?
Katia
-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert at cs.ucla.edu]
Inviato: giovedì 23 settembre 2010 06:37
A: katia at astrologiainlinea.it
Cc: tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
Oggetto: Re: FW: Time Zone in Paris
Katia wrote:
> With regard to the time zone of Paris from 1945 to 1976 it results a
> strange data that conflicts over other resources credited as Shank,
> according to your database in 1971 the Time zone Paris was 0.
Sorry, I don't see that problem. According to the tz database, the
time zone in Paris was one hour ahead of UTC during that period. This
agrees with Shanks & Pottenger 2003 (ISBN 0-035127-88-7); I just now
checked my printed copy. It also agrees with the Ephemerides
Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes, according to email
that we received on 1997-12-12 from Denis Excoffier. These two
sources disagree only about exactly when this long period of UTC+1 ended.
Shanks & Pottenger say that it ended on 1976-03-28 at 02:00 local
time, whereas Excoffier wrote that it ended at 00:00 UTC, i.e., at
01:00 local time. Currently the tz database agrees with Excoffier,
but we always welcome any more-authoritative sources, such as reliable
newspapers published at the time.
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