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European time zones:

GMT – Greenwich Mean Time

Current time in London

Monday, December 3, 2012 at 2:47:50 AM GMT

London will stay on GMT until Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 1:00 AM
when clocks are moved to Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 02:00:00BST

Find local time and time zone for a location

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

Time zone offset: UTC

GMT is in the same time zone as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that some places observe daylight saving time/summer time during summer, and are therefore using BST or IST instead in the summer. See below for details.

Time zone abbreviations: GMT,

Full name is Greenwich Mean Time
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Email time zone indicator: +0000

An email sent from someone in the GMT time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0000" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0000" does not have to be in GMT, 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 GMT observed?

European countries using GMT all year

Iceland

European countries using GMT only in the winter

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

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example locations in GMT

Reykjavik - This time zone offset is used all year in this location
London - This time zone offset is used during winter in this location

Other time zones in Europe

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

BST - British Summer Time
CEST - Central European Summer Time
CET - Central European Time
EEST - Eastern European Summer Time
EET - Eastern European 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