[exim] European Time Zones

CEDT (Central European Daytime Time) is a American invention which
includes night time in Europe unless the Americans also want to give us
Europeans CENT (Central European Night Time), CENTIS (Central European
Night Time in Summer) and CENTOS (Central European Night Time over
Summer). CENT, CEDT, GMT+2 are known to others as CEST.

I prefer MESZ – Mitteleuroäische Sommerzeit (German) - or even MEST
(Dutch) which also sounds in Dutch like compost or farm 'muck' and think
now is an ideal opportunity for the 27 member state EU to give the
entire 47 states of Europe a universally recognised series of time
zones.

Its wrong to leave these things to the Americans all the time :-)

After all, we Europeans never ever interfere in the American's Pacific
time, Mountain time, Eastern Standard Time etc.

To everyone outside Europe, Europeans synchronise our switch to and from
summer time (+1:00). The Americans change to their summer time at a date
different to Europe.

I think GMT +02:00 is more simple to understand. It also avoids
confusion.

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