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Time Difference between IST and CET — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.56.242.194 ( talk) 09:04, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
A close look at the time zone map shows that geographically UTC+1 end at the western boarderline of Germany and Switzerland. The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Spain - all currently using UTC+1, should be in time zone UTC+0 together with the UK. On the other hand, Republic of Irelnd, Iceland, Portugal and a number of Arican states (currently all in UTC+0 together with the UK) should be in time zone UTC-1. Why is this so? -- Gazibara 23:49, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
The abbreviation "MET" is believed by the maintainers of the public-domain timezone database to have arisen from an earlier error in that database. "MET" is a corruption of the German "MEZ" ( Mitteleuropäische Zeit). 121a0012 19:31, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
I live in Belgium, and I was wondering if we can still use the term CET during the summer, to indicate our local time?
I think the second statement is not correct. Belgium is also using CET the whole year. But in the summer, this CET is UTC+2, and in the winter this CET is UTC+1. CET is per definition the time in Centrale Europe (summer or winter). So I assume this list (of countries that do or do not change the time) would be better in an article about daylight savings time?
- Edward Velo 10:39, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Regardless of the formal or technical details, I think it should be worth noting that CET is routinely used to refer to Central European Summer Time in informal contexts and occasionally in media (e.g. http://metronews.ca/news/world/1412811/eurotunnel-service-resumes-after-french-ferry-workers-block/). 81.148.186.105 ( talk) 12:32, 2 July 2015 (UTC)
I live in Spain and the school starts at 09:00 or 08:30. The 09:30 is used sometimes for kids in age below 5.
80.33.107.34 07:31, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Could someone add them, please, to illustrate the W/E 7°30' and E 22°30' cases which are discussed? Thanks in advance. -- Matthead DisOuß 16:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
I do not see the relevance of this toppic to the article. My sugestion is to delete it from the article. by 212.18.162.33 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.18.162.33 ( talk) 10:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
The usage section introduces itself with the following:
In the first paragraph, a war is mentioned, but it is not mentioned which war. Is the first world war? Or is the second? Less ambiguity, thank you! -- Svip pong 18:34, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Yank, here, so mayhaps the rather extensive discussion of year-round British Standard Time (equivalent to CET) doesn't mean as much to me here as it might were I over there. Still, it seems to this editor, that the discussion isn't warranted in this article and should be moved - perhaps to British Summer Time or even to it's own article. -- Trappist the monk ( talk) 00:15, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
This page redirects from Romance Standard Time and yet doesnt mention it at all in the article. So visitors like me looking for info on RST come away with no idea what it is despite being redirected here.. Clever... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.213.140.86 ( talk) 11:41, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
[This is sort of a restatement of the discussion about #Summer time above.]
Our article defines CET as being UTC+1, but is it worth some more discussion of the ambiguity that can result if people colloquially use it to mean "the time kept by most nations in Central Europe"?
The article says that (a) it is UTC+1, (b) it used in most parts of the European Union, and (c) "all member states of the European Union observe summer time". But, depending on how you look at it, those three facts can not all hold true. In particular, for about half the year, all of those member states of the European Union are not using UTC+1.
This difficulty could be resolved if only there were a commonly-accepted term for "Central European Time" which encompassed the summer time shift, that is, if there were a term that meant "UTC+1 or UTC+2, as appropriate for the time of year." But since there is no such term, people often use "CET" instead. In practice, then, the term "CET" is ambiguous.
So I guess what I'm wondering is whether it's worth adding something along the lines of "Colloquially, the term "CET" is often used to refer to the time kept by a county in this time zone, including its summer time adjustment". Under that interpretation, 'CET' means ' UTC+01:00 or UTC+02:00, depending on the time of year.'"
See also this thread at the Reference Desk. — Steve Summit ( talk) 15:53, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
" 1884 ** The areas of current Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia start using CET. "
This statement does not make sense. Those territories were part of several different countries -- Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina (protectorate) were parts of of Austria-Hungary, the territory of what is now FYROM does not correspond to any particular political subunit or grouping of subunits of the Ottoman Empire, and the other two were independent countries. I'm deleting that line rather than putting a citation needed, because I highly doubt one can be provided. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.121.52.96 ( talk) 14:03, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
@ 92.34.200.187: At first you started removing 1,400 bytes, and now you are removing over 2,600 by giving weak reasons. Can you discuss first per WP:BRD? Capitals00 ( talk) 18:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
This article relies heavily on the private website www.timeanddate.com, which in turn does not cite any sources as far as I can see. And I don't see any references in the article to more authoritative sources like international bureaus, governments, or universities. I'm trying to find the actual treaties that must lie below all the information, but I'm failing to find them—even on Google. Shouldn't we try to find some more authoritative sources and cite them? Does anyone have any suggestions to such authoritative sources? -- Jhertel ( talk) 22:39, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
References
I started to change the word 'physical' to 'nominal', but decided that I had best stop to verify consensus. I suspect whoever wrote 'physical' in scare quotes felt at some level it isn't the right term but it was the best they could come up with. In other contexts, the word 'nominal' is used to mean that the figure is indicative and gets used in specific cases (especially when the word 'nominal' is being used to weasel word short measure!) to indicate a reference measure rather than a correct-to-the-micron measure.
Does anyone want to argue for retention of 'physical'? -- Red King ( talk) 13:30, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
I don't see the relevance for that information nor a clear justification for its truth. If Berlin is bigger than say Paris certainly depends on which criteria are used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.217.4.27 ( talk) 19:09, 30 May 2021 (UTC)