Time in Germany - wikipedia Time in Germany Time in Europe : 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 ) golden Eastern European Time ( UTC + 2 ) Eastern European Summer Time ( UTC + 3 ) light green Further - eastern European Time / Moscow Time / Turkey Time ( UTC + 3 ) Light colours indicate where standard time is observed all year ; dark colours indicate where a summer time is observed. The time zone in Germany is Central European Time ( Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ ; UTC + 01 : 00 ) and Central European Summer Time ( Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit, MESZ ; UTC + 02 : 00 ). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March ( 02 : 00 CET ) to the last Sunday in October ( 03 : 00 CEST ). 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 ). Contents 1 IANA time zone database 2 History 3 See also 4 References 5 External links IANA time zone database The IANA time zone database contains two zones for Germany, `` Europe / Berlin '' and `` Europe / Busingen '', although in 1945, the Trizone did not follow Berlin 's switch to midsummer time. Germany has been politically divided into East Germany and West Germany even after the start of the unix epoch, which is the date from which the tz database wants to record correct information. The database aims to include at least one zone for every ISO 3166 - 1 alpha - 2 country code. This list was first issued in 1997, after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Hence only the unified Germany is listed. The zone Europe / Busingen was created in the 2013a release of the tz database, because since the Unix time epoch in 1970, Busingen has shared clocks with Zurich. Busingen did not observe DST in 1980 like the rest of Germany, but did so in 1981 after Switzerland adopted DST. Data for Germany directly from zone. tab of the IANA time zone database. Columns marked with * are the columns from zone. tab itself. c.c. * Coordinates * TZ * Comments * UTC offset UTC DST offset DE + 5230 + 01322 Europe / Berlin Berlin time + 01 : 00 + 02 : 00 DE + 4742 + 00841 Europe / Busingen Busingen + 01 : 00 + 02 : 00 History 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 peace time. It was then introduced and abolished several times. In 1996, 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. In 1980 the exclave Büsingen did not use DST in order to keep to the same time as Switzerland. See also List of time zones References Jump up ^ Lennox, Jonathan ( 2008 - 02 - 11 ). `` Re : FW : FW : Corrections to historic German timezone information ''. gmane.comp.time.tz. Jump up ^ Eggert, Paul ( 2013 - 03 - 02 ). `` tzcode2013a and tzdata2013a available ''. tz - announce. External link in publisher = ( help ) Jump up ^ Olson, Arthur David ( 2012 - 03 - 03 ). `` New zone for DE, split from Europe / Berlin ''. gmane.comp.time.tz. Jump up ^ `` Schweizer Zeit in Büsingen ''. Schweizer Fernsehen : SF Videoportal. External links Physikalisch - Technische Bundesanstalt - Legal Time ( in German ) Gesetz über die Einheiten im Messwesen und die Zeitbestimmung § 4 ( EinhZeitG, Units and Time Act ) ( in German ) Sommerzeitverordnung ( Summer Time Ordinance ) ( in German ) German Time Act ( in English ) Time in Europe Sovereign states Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom States with limited recognition Abkhazia Artsakh Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria Dependencies and other entities Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey Svalbard Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_in_Germany&oldid=842441136 '' Categories : Time in Germany Hidden categories : CS1 errors : external links All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from April 2010 Articles with German - language external links Talk Contents About Wikipedia 日本 語 Simple English Edit links This page was last edited on 22 May 2018, at 13 : 30. 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Question: when does germany move to daylight savings time
Answer: the last Sunday in March