Talk:Central European Time

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Time Difference between IST and CET

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[edit] Span of UTC+1

A close look at the time zone map shows that geographically UTC+1 end at the western boarderline of Germany and Switzerland. The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Spain - all currently using UTC+1, should be in time zone UTC+0 together with the UK. On the other hand, Republic of Irelnd, Iceland, Portugal and a number of Arican states (currently all in UTC+0 together with the UK) should be in time zone UTC-1. Why is this so? --Gazibara 23:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MET

The abbreviation "MET" is believed by the maintainers of the public-domain timezone database to have arisen from an earlier error in that database. "MET" is a corruption of the German "MEZ" (Mitteleuropäische Zeit). 121a0012 19:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Summer time

I live in Belgium, and I was wondering if we can still use the term CET during the summer, to indicate our local time?

  • According to the explanation at the beginning on this webpage ("(CET:) Its time offset is UTC+1 during standard time and UTC+2 during daylight saving time"), we can.
  • According to the sentence later on ("The following countries and territories use Central European Time during the winter only: Belgium"), we can not.

I think the second statement is not correct. Belgium is also using CET the whole year. But in the summer, this CET is UTC+2, and in the winter this CET is UTC+1. CET is per definition the time in Centrale Europe (summer or winter). So I assume this list (of countries that do or do not change the time) would be better in an article about daylight savings time?

- Edward Velo 10:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

There is no standard for time zone abbreviations, unless your national government has enacted one. You can call it whatever you want (presumably using a French or Flemish name as appropriate). If you want to be understood, call it "UTC+0100" or "UTC+0200" as appropriate for the time of year. For what it's worth, the public-domain timezone database, which is as close to a standard as anything, uses the abbreviations "CET" and "CEST", except between 1892 and 1914 and between 1918 and 1940, when "WET" and "WEST" are used instead. (Belgium adopted standard time, as Brussels Mean Time, in 1880. In 1892, the country switched to GMT ("WET"), on which it remained until the Germans invaded. Summer Time was first introduced by the German occupation in 1918, and continued until the end of the Second World War. It was not reinstituted until 1977 when the first Summer Time Directive came into force.) 121a0012 01:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

- Alexandre 24 July 2007

My interpretation is that CET is the local time (UTC+0100). But in Europe we use legal time which is either local time or local time+0100 in summer.

[edit] The Spanish case

I live in Spain and the school starts at 09:00 or 08:30. The 09:30 is used sometimes for kids in age below 5.

80.33.107.34 07:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

This part seems rather unencyclopedic and anecdotal, I vote that we reword it as a cultural note or remove it. trisweb (Talk) 19:14, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I ask for rewriting or deletion of this part. Maybe all other people are wrong. Obviously, I'm Spanish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.161.73.234 (talk) 13:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Meridians on map?

Could someone add them, please, to illustrate the W/E 7°30' and E 22°30' cases which are discussed? Thanks in advance. -- Matthead  DisOuß   16:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)