Talk:Summer time in Europe

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message: According to Microsoft TzEdit utility there are different moments then Daylight time come in effect. For example (GMT+02:00) Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius (aka FLE Daylight Time) get applied at Last Sunday of March at 3:00:00, and discarded at Last Sunday of October at 4:00:00. In contrast (GMT+02:00) Athens, Beirut, Istanbul, Minsk (aka GTB Standard Time) come in effect at Last Sunday of March at 2:00:00 and discarted at Last Sunday of October at 3:00:00.
This mean that we need reliable sources to validate then DST switch occur at different countries. 
For example for Ukraine there is law at  Parlament website. It's 3-4. 
: Microsoft is inadequately authoritative.
: 82.163.24.100 13:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Paragraph agreed with. 82.163.24.100 13:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct EEST/EEDT change moment

message: Second paragraph, above contents box, states one period for all Europe, later contradicted.  It may be true to say that in Europe there are just 3 rules, those of Iceland, the EU, and Russia, with countries not included by that following either EU or Russia.
If heading "Exact timing in the next several years" were changed to "Exact dates for several years" it would no longer be necessary to delete a year exactly at each new year.  Including the previous year would, I think, be of some use.  Move the times to another section, and this section would apply also to Russia.
"For today these formulae yield 0 (1 = summer time)." - not true - this year, they yield 25 and 28.  Underlying meaning can be deduced, and should be written.
Change heading "Russia & Belarus", and list European countries using those rules.  If the list is incomplete, no doubt people will provide additions.
Turkey, being neither ex-USSR nor entirely European (Asia Minor) is worth explicit mention; I believe it uses exact EU rules, but check.
The term "European Summer Time" should be used only to refer to what EU and Russia and Iceland do or do not do.  The term "EU Summer Time" should be used where applicable.
I believe that UK law changes Summer Time at 01:00 GMT, not UTC (though UTC is used for time signals).
Probably worth including, for cross-reference, the term "DST" = "Daylight saving time", saying that the term is not used in Europe.  Or not much used.  That effectively provides the links in the DST page, but those of European significance should be repeated here - Franklin, Willett
82.163.24.100 13:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Various

message: The page says - But in the Republic of Ireland standard time is CET (UTC+1) and the clocks are turned back for winter time.
That seems wrong.  The Irish Act of 1968 fixed local time at GMT+1, all year round, with no mention of putting the clock back for Winter.
The UK and the RoI - indeed, the whole British Isles - used GMT+1 for the whole of the period Summer 1968 to Summer 1971, as I recall.
Since the Irish ceased using Dublin-based time (on 1916-10-01), local time has always been uniform across the British Isles, apart from possible distinction between UTC and GMT.
Check with an informed Irish source, and with Myers' http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/.
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On second thoughts, while the Standard Time (Amendment) Act of 1971 reinstituted Summer and Winter time, it did not redefine Irish Standard Time to GMT.
For the avoidance of doubt, both Acts should be cited.  The first Act to define Standard Time, and the second Act to turn the clocks back.
82.163.24.100 16:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [edit] Local observations 

message: Just because we're British and use the word 'autumn' in normal conversation doesn't mean we don't know what 'fall' means in the above phrase. It is perfectly suited to its usage and I suspect used widely throughout the UK as a reminder. Mannafredo (talk) 11:57, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spring forward & fall back 

message: Today (27 October 2008 15:56 CET) is computed as summer time = 1. Is this an error in the subprogram?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.159.196.12 (talk) 14:58, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea; it certainly says 0 now and for me. Are you sure you haven't just misread the sentence? It says that the offset is 0, and that the offset being 1 would mean summer time – not that the offset is actually 1. -- Jao (talk) 18:07, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why today is computed as summer time?

message: Shouldn't it be "European summer time"? -- Jao (talk) 15:25, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: Summertime is claimed “to make the most of seasonal daylight” and it is often argued that it reduces road accidents, save power etc, so surely it should relate to daylight hours?
Daylight hours are, by definition, the same at each Equinox, so basing the dates on these gives:-
Spring Equinox = 20 or 21 March
Summertime starts last Sunday in March =  25-31 March. This is 4-11 days after i.e. on the Summer side of the Spring Equinox.
 
Autumn Equinox = 22 or 23 September
Summertime ends last Sunday in October = 25-31 October. This is 32-39 days after i.e. on the Winter side of the Autumn Equinox
There is, therefore, a minimum imbalance of 36 days and can be an imbalance of 50 days between the start and finish of European Summertime.   Why is Summertime so asymmetrical?Arjayay (talk) 17:18, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: To add to my own unanswered question of 20 months ago:-Consider sunrise and sunset at Greenwich Observatory in 2011Last Sunday in Mar = 27 Mar - Sunrise = 05.48 - Sunset = 18.24 giving 12h 34 min of daylight Last Sunday in Oct = 30 Oct - Sunrise = 06.48 - Sunset = 16.39 giving 9h 51 min of daylight For times and hours to be roughly equal, one or other of the changes needs to be moved a month back.Why were these asymmetrical dates proposed, let alone agreed?Arjayay (talk) 16:43, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a change from late September to late October in 1996 for Central european time. There must have been a reason, so a suggestion is to ask those who decided why. --BIL (talk) 12:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

text: I beg to differ - I commuted by train to university in 1983 and remember the posters in the railway station reminding commuters of the change in late October, I think 27th. University term time didn't begin until October, it could not have been in September at that time. I am also v interested in the asymmetry, as the PP said, there must be a reason. Cathi M (talk) 12:48, 31 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is European Summertime so asymmetrical? 

message: Wouldn't it make sense to merge Daylight saving time in Europe into this article? As I see it there's no difference other than terminology. Peregrine981 (talk) 09:41, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed so much so that I'll start the formal procedure _ Arjayay (talk) 12:03, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree "Daylight saving time" not a phrase that is commonly used in Europe - I assume it comes from US English?  WP:COMMONTITLE states "Wikipedia prefers the name that is most commonly used" which is "Summer Time" - Arjayay (talk) 07:47, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Daylight saving time in Europe]] 

message: I propose that Daylight saving time in Europe be merged into European Summer Time. The articles cover exactly the same subject, but European Summer Time is the correct title, (see Daylight saving time)  and includes a map and formula for deriving the dates. Daylight saving time in Europe will be retained as a redirect. Arjayay (talk) 12:03, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: On a slightly pedantic note, wouldn't this article better be called "Summer Time in Europe" or "Summer-Time in Europe" in line with Daylight saving time in Asia, Daylight saving time in Africa etc... ? This is because "European Summer Time" isn't so much one concept as much as a discussion of the usage of Summer Time throughout Europe. Better to have a consistent usage across wikipedia, even if we are using different terminology for the different continents. Peregrine981 (talk) 12:06, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: is not in Europe. Shouldn't we remove it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruuud (talk • contribs) 14:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed Chirea Mircea (talk) 03:58, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, but perhaps you should have moved it to DST in Asia, rather than simply deleting it. Peregrine981 (talk) 13:41, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

text: Not exactly. According to Kazakhstan and List of transcontinental countries, it's predominantly in Central Asia, while the part west of the Ural River is considered to be in Eastern Europe. It's one of five countries like this, the others being Russia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Our own articles, though, are inconsistent on this, and borders seem to vary based on the subject. The concept of Eurasia seems more current, too. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 11:08, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kazakhstan 

message: I'm swiss and encountered the following sentence :
  The last country in Europe to adopt summer time, in 1981, was Switzerland, because of the stiff opposition of the
  influential Swiss farmers' lobby, who repeatedly stalled attempts by the Federal Assembly to legislate on the matter,
  and subsequently sponsored referendums to abrogate it.
This doesn't sound encyclopaedic or neutral at all, it sounds like a pro-summer time propaganda, insinuating that farming is an evil "lobby" and that they were "blocking" the federal assembly. Makes no sense at all - the fact that our country resisted against European directives on summer time during the 20th century should be cited in a more neutral and formal way.
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128.179.146.104 (talk) 09:38, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Please go ahead and make the changes you think are appropriate. Peregrine981 (talk) 17:32, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland 

message: The country information for Russia has been updated to reflect the change back to permanent Standard time, but the "Countries not using summer time" section needs updating too. I'd do it myself but I'm unable to find out whether Belarus (also mentioned in that section) has also shifted back in the same way.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosbif73 (talk • contribs) 17:35, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russia, Belarus 

message: With regards to reference 13, why on earth are we using news websites instead of going direct to the PRIMARY source which is:
https://www.eu2018.at/latest-news/news/10-29-Informal-meeting-of-transport-and-environment-ministers.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.84.59.150 (talk) 08:05, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: See WP:PSTS for an explanation of why secondary sources are preferred. And please add new sections to the bottom of talk pages. Rosbif73 (talk) 08:19, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Primary sources

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message: Per WP:CRYSTAL, I removed dates from this table that are more than five years into the future, since there is no sound basis to provide them. There is a broad consensus in the EU to end the biannual practice of changing the clocks back and forth, so to give projected dates that far into the future is WP:OR. Exactly when the practice will end is currently in discussion. An IP editor reverted that deletion without an explanation and I have reinstated. If there is a sound reason why standard Wikipedia policy should not apply in this case, please provide it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:32, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of transition dates for European Summer Time