Western European Time (WET)
The Western European Time zone applies, as the name suggests, in some countries and regions of Western Europe. These are the Faroe Islands, the Spanish Canary Islands and the Portuguese mainland including Madeira, but excluding the Azores.Time zones are always indicated in their time distance to the coordinated world time. The English expression "Universal Time Coordinated" is abbreviated as UTC. This is the time that is valid on the zero degree of longitude. And the countries of Western Europe lie exactly in this time zone. In summer, all countries change to the Western European Summer Time (WEST). Then UTC+1 applies there uniformly.
The Western European time is therefore one hour behind the Central European time.
Countries in Western European Time
WET time applies to the following countries:| Country | Region | Standardtime | DST |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faroe Islands | countrywide | WET | WEST |
| Portugal | Madeira | WET | WEST |
| Spain | Canary Islands | WET | WEST |
Western Europe and other countries with the zone time UTC+0
The name of the Western European time zone is quite confusing. It covers only a few regions in Western Europe and in fact there are many other countries where the same hour strikes. Greenwich Mean Time has the same time. Ireland, Iceland, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands use Greenwich Mean Time, the time zone is just called differently.The reason is mainly political. All countries in a time zone switch to daylight saving time at the same moment, or stay with standard time all year round. Also the insertion of leap seconds does not necessarily take place in all countries with UTC+0 at the same time - but in all countries of a time zone. So if London decides to do without a leap second or to insert it later, this only applies to GMT. The countries of the WET determine this for themselves. In practice, however, this makes little difference. With increasing globalization, such times are anyway coordinated many years in advance and synchronized across time zones.
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