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Time in Luxembourg | |
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Time zone | Central European Time |
Initials | CET |
UTC offset | UTC+01:00 |
Adopted | 1904–1918 1940 (readopted) |
Daylight saving time | |
Name | Central European Summer Time |
Initials | CEST |
UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
Start | Last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) |
End | Last 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 |
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LU | +4936+00609 | Europe/Luxembourg | +01:00 | +02:00 |
See also
References
- Time in Luxembourg. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- Luxembourg at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- Central European Time (CET). TheTimeNow.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
- Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
External links
- Current time in Luxembourg at Time.is
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