From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daylight saving time in Europe
Daylight saving time in Europe
All countries in Europe except Belarus, Iceland, and Rus- the time that formerly was DST, all year round. Many
sia observe daylight saving time, and all that do so areas have its time two hours ahead of the mean
change on the same date and time, starting on the last solar time. Moscow has UTC+04:00.
Sunday in March and ending on the last Sunday in Octo-
ber.
Double Summer Time
There has been observation of double summer time:
History • Central European Midsummer Time (UTC+03:00)
Before 1996, DST ended on the last Sunday in September • British Double Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
in most European countries; however in the United King-
dom and Ireland DST ended on the fourth (which some
years is not the last) Sunday in October.
See also
In 1996, daylight saving time was harmonized • European Summer Time
throughout the European Union by Directive 2000/84/ • Western European Summer Time
EC, which moved the end of DST to the last Sunday in Oc- • Central European Summer Time
tober. • Eastern European Summer Time
In the West European (UTC), Central European (CET, • British Summer Time
UTC+1), and East European (UTC+2) time zones the • Irish Standard Time
change is simultaneous: on both dates the clocks are
changed everywhere at 01:00 UTC, i.e. from local times
of 01:00/02:00/03:00 to 02:00/03:00/04:00 in March, and
References
vice versa in October.[1] [1] "Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament
See also: European Summer Time and British Summer and of the Council of 19 January 2001 on summer-
Time which includes a description of Double Summer Time. time arrangements". eur-lex.europa.eu. http://eur-
These countries or regions do not use daylight saving lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/
time: LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0084:EN:NOT.
• Belarus, ended its last DST switching after moving Retrieved 2010-09-26.
the clocks forward in Spring 2011, and is now
observing UTC+03:00 all year round. See also
• Iceland, observing UTC all year round despite being
at a longitude which would indicate UTC-1, the • European Summer Time
country may be thought of as being on continuous • Daylight saving time by country
DST. Iceland’s high latitude means that sunset and • Daylight saving time in Oceania
sunrise times change by many hours over the year, • Daylight saving time in Asia
and the effect of changing the clock by one hour • Daylight saving time in Africa
would, in comparison, be small. • Daylight saving time in North America
• Russia, ended its last DST switching after moving the • Daylight saving time in South America
clocks forward in Spring 2011, and is now observing
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