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Ireland uses Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+01:00) in the summer months and Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) in the winter period.〔(Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 )〕 In Ireland, the Standard Time Act 1968 legally established that ''the time for general purposes in the State (to be known as standard time) shall be one hour in advance of Greenwich mean time throughout the year''.〔(Standard Time Act, 1968 )〕 This act was amended by the Standard Time (Amendment) Act 1971, which legally established Greenwich Mean Time as a winter time period.〔 Ireland therefore operates one hour behind standard time during the winter period, and reverts to standard time in the summer months. This is defined in contrast to the other states in the European Union, which operate one hour ahead of standard time during the summer period, but produces the same end result. The instant of transition to and from daylight saving time is synchronized across Europe. In Ireland, Winter time begins at 02:00 IST on the last Sunday in October (changing to 01:00 GMT), and ends at 01:00 GMT on the last Sunday in March (changing to 02:00 IST). The following table lists recent, past and near-future starting and ending dates of Irish Standard Time: } | |dm}} |- | | |dm}} | |dm}} |- | | |dm}} | |dm}} |- | | | |- | | |dm}} | |dm}} |- | | |dm}} | |dm}} |- | | |dm}} | |dm}} |} ==History== Before 1880, the legal time at any place in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was defined as local mean time, as held by the appeal in the 1858 court case Curtis v. March. The Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880 defined Dublin Mean Time as the legal time for Ireland. This was the local mean time at Dunsink Observatory outside Dublin, and was about 25 minutes 21 seconds behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which was defined by the same act to be the legal time for Great Britain.〔〔(Statutes (Definition of Time) Act, 1880 (43 & 44 Vict. c. 9) )〕 After the Easter Rising, the time difference between Ireland and Britain was found inconvenient for telegraphic communication and the Time (Ireland) Act, 1916 provided that Irish time would be the same as British time, from 2:00 am Dublin Mean Time on Sunday 1 October 1916.〔〔Time (Ireland) Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 45)〕 After the Irish Free State became independent in 1922, subsequent developments tended to mirror those in the United Kingdom. This avoided having different times on either side of the border with Northern Ireland.〔〔(Dáil debates Vol.760 No.3 p.342 )〕 Summer time (daylight saving time) was provided on a one-off basis by acts in 1923 and 1924,〔(Summer Time Act 1923 ) Irish Statute Book〕〔(Summer Time Act 1924 ) Irish Statute Book〕 and then on an ongoing basis by the Summer Time Act, 1925. The 1925 act provided a default summer time period, which could be varied by ministerial order. Double summer time was considered but not introduced during the Emergency of World War II.〔(Dáil debates Vol.93 No.8 p.11 c.1021 ) Oireachtas〕 From 1968 standard time (GMT+1) was observed all year round, with no winter time change.〔 This was an experiment in the run-up to Ireland's 1973 accession to the EEC, and was undone in 1971.〔 In those years, time in Ireland was the same as in the six EEC countries, except in the summer in Italy, which switched to Central European Summer Time (CEST). One artefact of the 1968 legislation is that "standard time" ((アイルランド語:am caighdeánach)〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Standard time ) 〕) legally refers to summer time;〔 the 1971 act defined a period of time in the winter as "winter time" during which the time observed would be GMT, leaving "standard time" unchanged.〔 From the 1980s, the dates of switch between winter and summer time have been synchronised across the European Union.〔〔(Seanad debates Vol.111 No.13 p.6 c.1212–14 ) Oireachtas〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Time in Ireland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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