Talk:Time in Germany

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—Yamara ✉  17:22, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

The first sentence of the article requires correction
Currently, the article begins "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)."

That conflicts with the meaning of "Time Zone" elsewhere in Wikipedia and in authoritative publications of various definitely expert bodies (it does agree with Microsoft and its like, and with ECMA-262, alas).

I suggest something like "The time zone in Germany is Central European Time (Mitteleuropäische Zeit, MEZ; UTC+01:00). Daylight saving time in Germany is Central European Summer Time (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit, MESZ; UTC+02:00), and is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)."

But Germany, like the UK, does not use DST; we use "Summer Time" or a translation; and this article should conform.

Corresponding articles if any, those on "Time in non-Germany", and their equivalents in other languages, may need corresponding corrections.

94.30.84.71 (talk) 16:39, 30 October 2021 (UTC)

Update it
We are in Central European standard time now 2A01:C22:B50D:2800:C8DE:FE2C:163C:B83A (talk) 14:50, 4 November 2023 (UTC)