Time in Germany
The doubled hour during the switch back to standard time is named 2A (02:00 to 03:00 CEST) and 2B (02:00 to 03:00 CET).
[1] The zone Europe/Busingen was created in the 2013a release of the tz database,[2] because since the Unix time epoch in 1970, Büsingen has shared clocks with Zurich.
Daylight saving time was first introduced during World War I by the German Empire in the years 1916 to 1918.
After the end of the war and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic in November 1918, daylight saving time ceased to be observed.
In 1996, daylight saving time was harmonised throughout the European Union by Directive 2000/84/EC, which moved the end of DST to the last Sunday in October.
| Light Blue | Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time ( UTC ) |
| Blue | Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time ( UTC ) |
| Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time ( UTC+1 ) | |
| Red | Central European Time ( UTC+1 ) |
| Central European Summer Time ( UTC+2 ) | |
| Yellow | Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time ( UTC+2 ) |
| Ochre | Eastern European Time ( UTC+2 ) |
| Eastern European Summer Time ( UTC+3 ) | |
| Green | Moscow Time / Turkey Time ( UTC+3 ) |
| Turquoise | Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time ( UTC+4 ) |
▉ ▉ ▉ Dark colours: Summer time observed