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TimeZone Europe/London (and EU countries) is incorrect

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      Name: nl37777 Date: 11/18/98


      Daylight time for Europe/London ends at 1am GMT not 1am daylight time (i.e. midnight GMT)
       Thus the ending time should be specified as 2*3600000.
      The URL below is from the Royal Greenwich Obervatory.

      http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/pubinfo/leaflets/summer/summer.html

      I haven't checked, but the same mistake may also apply to the other European time zones.
      (Review ID: 42139)
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            aliusunw Alan Liu (Inactive)
            nlindenbsunw Norbert Lindenberg (Inactive)
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