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Standard Time (SDT) and Daylight Saving Time (DST) offsets from UTC in hours and minutes. For zones in which Daylight Saving is not observed, the DST offset shown in this table is a simple duplication of the SDT offset.
In 1992, during the government of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, by Decree-Law 124/92, mainland Portugal officially changed its time zone from Western European Time to Central European Time. [ 3 ] [ 11 ] Unlike the 1966 change to CET, DST was observed as Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00 ), from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in ...
Time zones of the world. A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between countries and their subdivisions instead of strictly following longitude, because it is convenient for areas in frequent communication to keep the same time.
AIX-specific equivalent of Central European Time [NB 1] UTC+01:00: EASST: Easter Island Summer Time: UTC−05:00: EAST: Easter Island Standard Time: UTC−06:00: EAT: East Africa Time: UTC+03:00: ECT: Eastern Caribbean Time (does not recognise DST) UTC−04:00: ECT: Ecuador Time: UTC−05:00: EDT: Eastern Daylight Time (North America) UTC−04: ...
2: UTC+10:00 – States of Chuuk and Yap UTC+11:00 – States of Kosrae and Pohnpei: Time in the Federated States of Micronesia: Kingdom of the Netherlands: 2: UTC−04:00 – Caribbean municipalities and constituent countries UTC+01:00 – Main territory of the Netherlands: Mongolia: 2: UTC+07:00 – Provinces of Khovd, Uvs and Bayan-Ölgii
The Norwegian-Russian border and Belarus–Poland border are the only places where CET (UTC+1) borders Moscow time , resulting in a one (or two in winter) hour time change when crossing that border. There is a "tri-zone" point (where UTC+01:00 , UTC+02:00 , and UTC+03:00 meet) at the Norway-Finland-Russia tripoint , near the town of Rayakoski .
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon ; [ 1 ] as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a particular time unless a context is given.
Due to the large size of the British company rule in Rhodesia, it meant Rhodesia observed three standards of time: UTC+01:30, +2:15 and +2:30; this was problematic for the railway system, so on 1 August 1899 the standard time zones UTC+02:30 was adopted nationwide, [10] consequently resulting in this being the first standard time in Africa.