Central European Time (CET), used in most European and some North African countries, is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), with a time offset of UTC+1 (in winter).
Most countries have adopted the use of Central European Summer Time (CEST) daylight saving time in summer, with UTC+2.
The German Empire unified its time zones in 1893, to use CET (MEZ). During the war, this time was implemented ...
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Central European Time (CET), used in most European and some North African countries, is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), with a time offset of UTC+1 (in winter).
Most countries have adopted the use of Central European Summer Time (CEST) daylight saving time in summer, with UTC+2.
The German Empire unified its time zones in 1893, to use CET (MEZ). During the war, this time was implemented in all occupied territories.
Before World War II, Lithuania used CET (MET) in the years 1920–40. In France, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg CET was kept. After the war Monaco, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar implemented CET.
Ireland and the United Kingdom experimentally adopted CET in the years 1968–71; however, this experiment proved unpopular and short-lived, mainly due to the increased number of road accidents (many involving children walking to school) in the dark winter mornings. Portugal used CET in the years 1966–76 and 1992–96.
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