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Question:  What is CET time?  I mean, I assume it is Central European Time, but is it the same as like, Paris time, or are they different time zones?

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:21:28 PM EST
Most of continental Europe is on CET. In the west it's just the British Isles and Portugal that are on CET-1 (Spain is directly south of the British Isles, but is on CET). In the East Finland, Greece and Turkey are on CET+1.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 04:59:53 PM EST
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CET covers Western Europe except Portugal and the British Isles (they're on GMT), and Central Europe including Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, former Yugoslavia.

I think all the countries observe Daylight Savings Time, so Portugal and the British Isles are currently on GMT + 1, and CET countries on GMT + 2. At the end of the month we'll go back to normal time, ie GMT for Portugal and British Isles, GMT + 1 for CET zone.

If that is hopelessly not clear, you should see some of the historical digging DoDo and I did once on the history of all that. No, you shouldn't see...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:05:03 PM EST
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I was just wondering what time they were announcing the Nobel prize tomorrow (11 am CET) ...  I'll just assume it's 7 hours ahead of me.  

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:11:47 PM EST
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Just use http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:12:53 PM EST
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I have a site like that I use, but it lists countries and cities, not time zone abreviations.  Which is why I wasn't sure where CET was...

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:32:04 PM EST
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What do you get if you google 'time zones'?

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:33:54 PM EST
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This, which is what I use.

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:36:54 PM EST
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The second-ranked site, www.worldtimezone.com, has a map.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:46:55 PM EST
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I'm on FST-"French summer time"?

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by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:16:11 PM EST
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The use of this is confusing. FST = CEST, in other words CET in summer.

Here's a map:

The green zone is CET.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Oct 12th, 2007 at 02:56:52 AM EST
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Wikipedia is your friend:



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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 05:48:18 PM EST
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Yeah, but I was kinda hoping someone here would be too...  

Thank you for the links.  Of course I'm perfectly capable of looking these things up myself, but since I was chatting with a group of people IN EUROPE, I thought I'd just ask instead.  

But thanks, really...

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:21:49 PM EST
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I guess the simple answer to your question is: yes, Stockholm and Paris are on the same time zone.

We have met the enemy, and it is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:28:40 PM EST
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Yeah, but are they on CET time?

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by poemless on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 06:43:10 PM EST
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I'd say Europeans aren't as aware of time zones and their names as Americans. We all live in countries with a single time zone, unlike people in the US that know that the baseball World Series game or that new TV series begins at 7 PM East Coast Time, and can convert to their local time.

So we don't know the Acronyms to our time zones, too.

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Thu Oct 11th, 2007 at 07:36:09 PM EST
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