a comment in C-Eur rules 1944 can be removed

Alois Treindl alois at astro.ch
Sat Sep 17 06:32:03 UTC 2011


The file tzdate/europe contains this comment regarding the end of DST in 
Germany 1944:

# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
Rule    C-Eur   1944    only    -       Oct      2       2:00s  0       -

I have looked up the Reichsgesetzblatt 1944, p.198 which contains the 
text of the respective decree. Shanks has the correct date and time.

I attach a copy.

It is very precise because it deals explicitly with the fact that the 
hour from 2 am to 3 am occurs twice, when the clock is set back from 3 
am to 2 am.
It says (my translation from German):
For the hour of 2 to 3 in the morning of 2nd October 1944, the first 
occurrence will be called 2A, 2A 1 minute etc until 2A 59 minutes. The 
second occurrence will be called 2B, 2B 1 minute etc until 2B 59 minutes.
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