[LEAPSECS] Coming of age in the solar system

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 6 Sep 2010, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>

> There was a lot of noise in EU context, and that resulted in one of the

> "technical requirements" for EU membership being that countries do not

> f**k with their summertime, and presumably timezones, with anything less

> than 5 years notice.


Interesting. AIUI the EU summer time rules have been fixed for an
indefinite time since 2001 (earlier directives specified the summer time
rules for a limited number of years) and have been effectively the same
since 1996 (three cheers for stability). Member states have to follow the
same summer time rules but I thought that the choice of base timezone was
entirely up to them.

Tony.
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