Time in France

With its overseas territories, France uses 12 different time zones (13 including its claim in Antarctica), more than any other country in the world.

[1] Saint Pierre and Miquelon follows the daylight saving time schedule of Canada and of the United States.

In September 1945, Metropolitan France returned to GMT+1 (pre-war summer time), which the British had already done in July 1945.

In 1996,[citation needed] daylight saving time was harmonized throughout the European Union by Directive 2000/84/EC, which moved the end of DST to the last Sunday in October.

A proposal to repeal this directive and require that member states observe their own choice of time year-round from 2021 is going through the legislative process as of March 2019[update].