Talk:Western European Time

message: The standard source for information about time zones present and past is the public-domain timezone database maintained by Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert at .  Eggert cites:
* Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas 5/e, San Diego: ACS Publications, 1999.
* Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, London: Whitman Publishing Company, n.d.
* Derek Howse, Greenwich Time and Longitude, n.p.: Philip Wilson, 1997.
:121a0012 19:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: The page has been tagged with a suggestion that it be merged with "Greenwich Mean Time". There is a discussion of this proposal on the Greenwich Mean Time talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Greenwich_Mean_Time#Merger_.28or_something.29_needed).
JamesBWatson (talk) 21:23, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that the proposal has failed for lack of interest on either page, so I'm deleting the tag. --Red King (talk) 15:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merger with Greenwich Mean Time 

message: I came to this page trying to find out if WET was different to GMT. From the Africa map, I assume it is..... but still have yet to find any explanations.
If anyone knows, I'd love to see more on that!
Murkee (talk) 18:57, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See the proposed merger discussion above for a bit more on this subject. The simple answer seems to be that nobody contributing to these articles actually knows (or at least, nobody has cited any sources stating what the differences are). Cheers --Pak21 (talk) 15:31, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: Historical uses are poorly described for France and Spain. First, France, as well as United Kingdom and Spain, moved to GMT+1 before German invasion in Feb 1940 and March 1940. Afterwards France was forced to German time but, at this moment, German time eventually meant GMT+2. France did not turn back to GMT+1 until autumn 1942, following the German time shift.
Spain did not switched to CET "in solidarity with Germany". That is just a hoax heard nowadays in Spain. Facts are clocks were advanced in Spain by March 1940 before the German invasion of France and following (in solidarity?) clock advances in United Kingdom and France. At this moment that was not a time zone shift, it was just a the enforcement of summer time, only a bit earlier because of the ongoing world war. Notice that during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), summer time was a common practice in Spain as a result of economic shortages.
Also notice that advancing clocks (a commonplace during economic shortages) in UK, Spain and France resulted in German standard time. It is not any kind of "solidarity with Germany", it is just a geographical coincidence.
Most importantly, German clocks were also advanced to GMT+2 in 1940 and until autumn 1942. Spain did not switch to GMT+2 (except in summers) and thus did not keep any kind of time solidarity with Germany.
Etaoin Shdrlu (talk) 05:31, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Uses 

message: The practice of tagging an article as having "multiple issues" while failing to open a talk-page discussion to explain the concerns, is strongly deprecated. It is particularly inappropriate to do so while still engaged in a debate about the very meaning and purpose of the subject of the article. Are CET and EET to be given the same treatment? --Red King (talk) 23:36, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drive-by tagging 

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thread_title:  Einzug