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Fix 1893-11-01 transition in Italy
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(Thanks to Michael Deckers.)
* NEWS: Document this.
* europe (Europe/Rome): 1893 transition uses new UT offset, not old.
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eggert committed Oct 27, 2016
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Europe/San_Marino, and Europe/Vatican. (Thanks to Pierpaolo
Bernardi, Brian Inglis, and Michael Deckers.)

The 1893-11-01 00:00 transition in Italy used the new UT offset
(+01), not the old (+00:49:56). (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)

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The code should now be buildable on AmigaOS merely by setting the
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# But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff,
# so record only the time in Rome.
#
# From Michael Deckers (2016-10-24):
# http://www.ac-ilsestante.it/MERIDIANE/ora_legale quotes a law of 1893-08-10
# ... [translated as] "The preceding dispositions will enter into
# force at the instant at which, according to the time specified in
# the 1st article, the 1st of November 1893 will begin...."
#
# From Pierpaolo Bernardi (2016-10-20):
# The authoritative source for time in Italy is the national metrological
# institute, which has a summary page of historical DST data at
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Rule Italy 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Rome 0:49:56 - LMT 1866 Sep 22
0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Nov 1 0:00s # Rome Mean
0:49:56 - RMT 1893 Oct 31 23:49:56 # Rome Mean
1:00 Italy CE%sT 1980
1:00 EU CE%sT

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