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Central European Summer Time is 2 hours ahead of Universal Time Coordinated
7:00 am07:00 in CEST is 5:00 am05:00 in UTC

CET to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-6pm in CET which corresponds to 8am-5pm in UTC

7:00 am07:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

7:00 am07:00 CEST / 5:00 am05:00 UTC

CEST	UTC
12am (midnight)	10pm
1am	11pm
2am	12am (midnight)
3am	1am
4am	2am
5am	3am
6am	4am
7am	5am
8am	6am
9am	7am
10am	8am
11am	9am
12pm (noon)	10am
1pm	11am
2pm	12pm (noon)
3pm	1pm
4pm	2pm
5pm	3pm
6pm	4pm
7pm	5pm
8pm	6pm
9pm	7pm
10pm	8pm
11pm	9pm
0:00	22:00
1:00	23:00
2:00	0:00
3:00	1:00
4:00	2:00
5:00	3:00
6:00	4:00
7:00	5:00
8:00	6:00
9:00	7:00
10:00	8:00
11:00	9:00
12:00	10:00
13:00	11:00
14:00	12:00
15:00	13:00
16:00	14:00
17:00	15:00
18:00	16:00
19:00	17:00
20:00	18:00
21:00	19:00
22:00	20:00
23:00	21:00

Central European Time

Offset: CET is 1 hour ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

Countries: It is used in following countries: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Algeria, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Tunisia, Vatican City

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CET timezone is Berlin from Germany with population about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in the area are Madrid, Rome, Paris, Algiers

German: MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Central European Summer Time (CEST).

End: Central European Time (CET) has ended on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 31, 2024, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on last Sunday of March.

Start: Central European Time (CET) starts on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on last Sunday of October.

CET representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+01 - basic short
+0100 - basic
+01:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates one hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Alpha - Military abbreviation for CET
A - short form of 'Alpha'

IANA/Olson: Reflects CET time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Africa/Algiers
Africa/Ceuta
Africa/Tunis
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
CET
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Andorra
Europe/Belgrade
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Budapest
Europe/Busingen
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Gibraltar
Europe/Ljubljana
Europe/Luxembourg
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Malta
Europe/Monaco
Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Podgorica
Europe/Prague
Europe/Rome
Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo
Europe/Skopje
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Tirane
Europe/Vaduz
Europe/Vatican
Europe/Vienna
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zurich
Poland

Time zones with the GMT +1 offset:

BST - British Summer Time
CET - Central European Time
IST - Irish Standard Time
WEST - Western European Summer Time
A - Alpha Time Zone
CET - Central European Time
MEZ - MitteleuropÃ¤ische Zeit
WAT - West Africa Time
WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
BMT - Biel Mean Time

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
+00 - basic short
+0000 - basic
+00:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
Z - short form of 'Zulu'

IANA/Olson: Reflects UTC time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Etc/UCT
Etc/UTC
Etc/Universal
Etc/Zulu
UCT
UTC
Universal
Zulu

Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:

EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
WET - Western European Time
AZOST - Azores Summer Time
UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
Z - Zulu Time Zone

EST to IST GMT to EST PST to EST EST to GMT PST to GMT