[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * NEWS, europe: Mention Herbert Samuel.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Aug 8 14:08:54 UTC 2015


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 NEWS   | 2 ++
 europe | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7be4d95..18cf4fa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
     tz-link.htm mentions Time Zone Database Parser (thanks to Howard Hinnant).
 
+    Mention that Herbert Samuel introduced the term "Summer Time".
+
 
 Release 2015e - 2015-06-13 10:56:02 -0700
 
diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 28b2b93..6b89b6e 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -193,11 +193,14 @@
 #	republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26
 #	http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf
 
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08):
 # The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving"
 # when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
 # term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
 # proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer".
+# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see:
+# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press
+# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8.
 
 # From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
 # A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
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