Time in Spain | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 13/12/2018

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Time in Spain


00:01:12 1 History
00:01:20 1.1 Standard time adoption
00:02:11 1.2 The Canary Islands exception
00:03:38 1.3 Daylight saving time
00:05:20 1.4 Central European Time
00:05:58 1.5 Criticism of the use of Central European Time
00:07:45 1.6 The Galicia problem
00:08:33 2 IANA time zone database
00:08:52 3 Notation
00:09:01 4 Differences with neighbouring countries
00:09:27 5 Dates of Daylight Saving Time and other changes
00:09:45 6 See also



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Spain has two time zones and observes daylight saving time. Spain mainly uses Central European Time (GMT+01:00) and Central European Summer Time (GMT+02:00) in Peninsular Spain, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla and plazas de soberanía. In the Canary Islands, the time zone is Western European Time (GMT±00:00) and Western European Summer Time (GMT+01:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (01:00 GMT) to the last Sunday in October (01:00 GMT) throughout Spain.
Spain used Greenwich Mean Time (UTC±00:00) before the Second World War (except for the Canary Islands which used GMT−01:00 before this date). However, the time zone was changed to Central European Time in 1940 and has remained so since then, meaning that Spain does not use its "natural" time zone under the coordinated time zone system. Some observers believe that this time zone shift plays a role in the country's relatively unusual daily schedule (late meals and sleep times).