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Time in Luxembourg
Time zoneCentral European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Adopted1904–1918
1940 (readopted)
Daylight saving time
NameCentral European Summer Time
InitialsCEST
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
StartLast Sunday in March (02:00 CET)
EndLast Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)
tz database
Europe/Luxembourg

In Luxembourg, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST).

History

Luxembourg first introduced CET in 1904, but switched to UTC+00:00 in 1918. CET was reintroduced in 1940 under German occupation.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Luxembourg is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Luxembourg. Data for Luxembourg directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
LU +4936+00609 Europe/Luxembourg +01:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. Time in Luxembourg. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. Luxembourg at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. Central European Time (CET). TheTimeNow.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  4. Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.

External links

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