![]() This directive is transposed into national for the years 1998-2001, they were published in the Moniteur belge of, p.34256).įor the period after 2001, the Directive ( PDF) of the European Parliament and the Council of 19 January 2001 is followed. The changeovers are regulated by Royal Decree by the Minister of Home Affairs in accordance with the directives of the European Parliament and the European Union. For the changeover to summer time (last Sunday in March), 2.00 local time becomes 3.00 local time. For the changeover to winter time in Belgium (last Sunday in October), at 3.00., local time becomes 2.00. ![]() to winter time (UTC+ 1 h)ĭaylight saving time changes take place on Sunday mornings at 1.00 UTC. The table below shows the latest dates for switching from winter to summer time and vice versa.Ĭomplete list of daylight saving time change dates for Belgium. Since 1996, the changeover from winter to summer time has taken place on the night between Saturday to Sunday during the last weekend of March, and the changeover from summer to winter time on the night between Saturday to Sunday during the last weekend of October. When it is 13:00 in UTC, it is in fact 14:00 in winter time and 15:00 in summer time. Legal time in Belgium is now UTC + 1 hour in winter and UTC + 2 hours in summer. Since then, an extra hour has been added in summer. The daylight saving time system was reintroduced in 1977. Since then, our country has maintained this shift for winter time. The Royal Decrees speak of an “advance” of the legal time (UTC) of 60 minutes (UTC + 1 h). In 1946, summer time was abolished, but Belgium decided to keep German time and an hour was added. In Belgium, the occupied territories followed the time (and daylight saving time) of Germany while the rest of the territory followed the Greenwich Mean Time (UTC + 0 h).ĭuring the Second World War, all occupied territories, including Belgium, were required to adopt German time (UTC + 1 h, winter time, and UTC + 2 h, summer time). In these countries, legal time is advanced by one hour during some periods in the summer (UTC + 0 h in winter and UTC + 1 h in summer for the Belgian time zone at the time). The daylight saving time system was first introduced during the First World War in some European countries. On, the Belgian State adopted GMT (later UTC) as legal time. The old name GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) is still sometimes used, but it is not quite correct, since until 1925, according to GMT, the day started at noon. ![]() Our time is therefore the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), now Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Following the division in 24 timezones, Belgium is located in the Greenwich timezone. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.Geographically, Belgium extends in longitude from 2.6 to 6.4 degrees east. ![]() It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. Other major cities in the area are Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT timezone is London from United Kingdom with population about 7.557 million people. Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in EuropeĬountries: It is used in following countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo Offset UTC +2:00 hoursģ:30 am 03:30 GMT / 5:30 am 05:30 Zwijndrecht, Belgium GMT Offset UTC 0:00 hoursĥ:30 am 05:30 CEST (Central European Summer Time) (Zwijndrecht, Belgium). Greenwich Mean Time is 2 hours behind CEST (Central European Summer Time)ģ:30 am 03:30 in GMT is 5:30 am 05:30 in Zwijndrecht, Belgiumīest time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-4pm in GMT which corresponds to 10am-6pm in Zwijndrechtģ:30 am 03:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). ![]()
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