clock change: all dates

General Information

In germany, the clock change is controlled through the time law of July, the 25th in 1978 in the modified version of September, the 13th in 1994.

Till and including 2001 there were regular orders that controlled the clock change for the next year (f.i. ZeitVo von 1997).

According to the order of 2002 concerning the introduction of the MESZ (CEST), the Federal Ministry of the Interior makes the beginning and end of the summertime for the next five years public.

Daylight savings time in Germany

• At the beginning of the summertime, the time is set forward from 1:00 to 2:00am.
• At the end of summertime, the clock is set back from 2:00am to 1:00am.

Technical terms

(GMT can be considered equivalent to UTC, BST = UTC + 1h.

During the autumn transition the hour from 1:00am to 2:00am elapses twice, these hours are referred to as 1A and 1B.