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European time zones:

BST – British Summer Time

Important

BST is only used while Daylight Saving Time is active.

During this time of year, locations on BST are now on GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) instead.

Currently no cities are observing BST

Locations going to BST later

Current time in London: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 2:36:16 AM GMT
London will stay on GMT until Sunday, March 31, 2013 going to BST

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We recommend looking up by location name, not time zone name.

Time zone offset: UTC + 1 hour

BST is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that BST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter GMT or IST are used instead

Time zone abbreviation: BST

Full name is British Summer Time

Email time zone indicator: +0100

An email sent from someone in the BST time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0100" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0100" does not have to be in BST, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).

For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below

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Where and when is BST observed?

Areas in the UK using BST only in the summer and GMT during the winter

United Kingdom - main islands
England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in BST

London - This time zone offset is used during summer in this location

Other time zones in Europe

Go directly through the links below, or see the Europe time zone list

CEST - Central European Summer Time
CET - Central European Time
EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
EET - Eastern European Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
IST - Irish Standard Time
KUYT - Kuybyshev Time
MSD - Moscow Daylight Time
MSK - Moscow Standard Time
SAMT - Samara Time
WEST - Western European Summer Time
WET - Western European Time