DaylightSavingTime         package:fCalendar         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A collection and description of functions for about  100 cities
     and regions, which return time zone offsets and daylight saving
     time rules.  

     The functions are:

     Adelaide Algiers Amsterdam Anchorage Andorra Athens Auckland
     Bahrain Bangkok Beirut Belfast Belgrade Berlin Bogota Bratislava
     Brisbane Brussels Bucharest Budapest BuenosAires Cairo Calcutta
     Caracas Casablanca Cayman Chicago Copenhagen Darwin Denver Detroit
     Dubai Dublin Eastern Edmonton Frankfurt Helsinki HongKong Honolulu
     Indianapolis Istanbul Jakarta Jerusalem Johannesburg Kiev
     KualaLumpur Kuwait Lagos Lisbon Ljubljana London LosAngeles
     Luxembourg Madrid Manila Melbourne MexicoCity Monaco Montreal
     Moscow Nairobi Nassau NewYork Nicosia Oslo Pacific Paris Perth
     Prague Riga Riyadh Rome Seoul Shanghai Singapore Sofia Stockholm
     Sydney Taipei Tallinn Tehran Tokyo Tunis Vaduz Vancouver Vienna
     Vilnius Warsaw Winnipeg Zagreb Zurich.

_N_o_t_e:

     There are currently two synonymes available "Pacific" for Los
     Angeles and "Eastern" for New York. 

     Note that we leave the space in all double named cities like New
     York  or Hong Kong and don't use an underscore for it.

     All the entries are retrieved from the Ical library which is 
     available under GNU's GPL licence.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Diethelm Wuertz for the Rmetrics R-port.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     ## DST Rules for Zurich:
        head(Zurich())
        tail(Zurich())

