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European time zones:

WEST – Western European Summer Time

Important

WEST is only used while Daylight Saving Time is active.

During this time of year, locations on WEST are now on WET (Western European Time) instead.

Currently no cities are observing WEST

Locations going to WEST later

Current time in Lisbon: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:08:01 AM WET
Lisbon will stay on WET until Sunday, March 31, 2013 going to WEST

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Time zone offset: UTC + 1 hour

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

Note that WEST is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter WET is used instead

Time zone abbreviation: WEST

Full name is Western European Summer Time

Email time zone indicator: +0100

An email sent from someone in the WEST time zone will have the time zone listed as "+0100" in the headers of the email. (However, "+0100" does not have to be in WEST, 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 WEST observed?

European countries using WEST in the summer and WET during the winter

Denmark - Faroe Islands only
Portugal
Spain - Canary Islands only

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later

Example location in WEST

Lisbon - 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

BST - British Summer Time
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
WET - Western European Time