anonymous U. K. notes

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# From an Anonymous U. K. Donor (January 5, 1989)
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# . . .our government is seriously considering applying Double Summer Time -
# putting the clocks forwards and back TWO hours for daylight saving time.
# This is advocated to standardise time in the EEC - we're all supposed to
# keep the same time and to change the clocks on the same dates in the future.
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# From an Anonymous U. K. Donor (January 4, 1989)
# It is NOT possible to predict when [British Summer Time] will change
# in a future year.
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# (The admiralty calculate when they think it should be (no more that a couple
# of years in advance) and advise the government who then decide whether or
# not they will take the admiralty's advice)
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# I got the dates from the Grenwich (sp?) observatory who were very helpful.
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# I was not able to track down the Admiralty formula (I tried hard but failed)
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# From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
# ...
# Greece: Last Sunday in April to last Sunday in September (iffy on dates).