Talk:Central European Summer Time

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—Yamara ✉  18:02, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Faroes
Could someone who knows how to do these things correct the map with respect to the Faroes? The Faroes observe Western European Time (UTC+0) in winter and Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) in summer, and hence should be coloured blue. -- Picapica (talk) 10:40, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

WTF?
Central European Time (UTC + one hour) during the rest of the year. It corresponds to UTC + two hours.

Make your mind up. Is it one hour or two?


 * CET = UTC + 1; CEST = UTC + 2. The pronoun "It" refers to CEST, not CET.

Time change shift
This article should say clearly what date/time CET shifts forward to CEST, and what date/time CEST shifts backward to CET. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.83.73.16 (talk) 13:07, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Lead section clearly states that CEST is observed during the period of summer daylight-saving with a direct wikilink to the Daylight saving time article which contains that information. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 10:04, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Why is CET erroneously used so much during summer time?
The time zone for CET countries in Europe in definitely CEST during the summer, so why is it so common to see CET (erroneously) used? Even Google use it on their results and I’m sure I’ve seen Eurosport using it too. In the UK sometimes GMT is used by mistake when BST is intended but it’s much rarer than the CEST mistake. Schmikichris (talk) 17:48, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Names section contains sentence "It is also in practice called CET, for example in invitations to events during the summer." Presumably it's mostly just a lazy convention that we can't do much about. Cheers, Rodney Baggins (talk) 10:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Why would you even call it an error? It is a very common convention. Note also that European countries have their own translated abbreviations, and different languages can have different conventions. AFAIK there is no strong culture of strictly using a different abbreviation in summer, but this may differ per country. – gpvos (talk) 13:14, 9 February 2023 (UTC)