Time scales and civil time

Daylight saving time

Also: zomertijd

Daylight saving time shifts the clock one hour forward in spring and back again in autumn, to make better use of daylight. In the EU this happens simultaneously: the last Sunday of March and of October.

An NTP- or GNSS-controlled clock applies daylight saving fully automatically based on the time-zone rules.

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