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Time in Spain is a Wikipedia article that explains the history, current situation and controversies of the time zones and daylight saving time in Spain. It also covers the differences between the mainland, the Canary Islands and the Spanish enclaves in Africa. Learn more about how time is regulated and perceived in Spain by clicking this link.
ISO 8601. International standard ISO 8601 ( Representation of dates and times) defines unambiguous written all-numeric big-endian formats for dates, such as 2022-12-31 for 31 December 2022, and time, such as 23:59:58 for 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 58 seconds. These standard notations have been adopted by many countries as a national standard, e ...
Daylight saving time by country. Daylight saving time (DST), also known as summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks during part of the year, typically by one hour around spring and summer, so that daylight ends at a later time of the day. As of 2024, DST is observed in most of Europe, most of North America and parts of Africa and Asia ...
Time in Europe. Europe spans seven primary time zones (from UTC−01:00 to UTC+05:00 ), excluding summer time offsets (five of them can be seen on the map, with one further-western zone containing the Azores, and one further-eastern zone spanning the European part of Kazakhstan ). Most European countries use summer time and harmonise their ...
A siesta (from Spanish, pronounced [ˈsjesta] and meaning "nap") is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those in warm-weather zones. The "siesta" can refer to the nap itself, or more generally to a period of the day, generally between ...
Date and time notation in Spain. In Spain, date notation follows the DD/MM/YYYY format. Time notation depends on the level of formality and varies in written and spoken formats. Official time is given using the 24-hour clock, and the 12-hour clock is often used in informal speech.
Pale colours: Standard time observed all year Dark colours: Summer time observed Summer time in Europe is the variation of standard clock time that is applied in most European countries (apart from Iceland, Belarus, Turkey and Russia) in the period between spring and autumn, during which clocks are advanced by one hour from the time observed in the rest of the year, with a view to making the ...
Western European Summer Time ( WEST, UTC+01:00) is a summer daylight saving time scheme, 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in: the Canary Islands. Portugal (including Madeira but not the Azores) the Faroe Islands. The following countries also use the same time zone for their daylight saving time but ...