[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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