Daylight saving time in the United Kingdom

Daylight saving time in the United Kingdom

Daylight saving time in the United Kingdom is called British Summer Time (UTC+01:00) or British Double Summer Time (UTC+02:00). More general British Summer Time is also named Western European Summer Time, then including Ireland and those areas of Portugal that observe the same UTC offsets.

Legislation

  • Summer Time Act 1916
  • Summer Time Act 1922
  • Time (Ireland) Act, 1916 [1]
  • Summer Time Act, 1925 [2]
  • Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 [3]
  • The Summer Time Order 1964 [4]
  • The Summer Time Order 1967 [5]
  • Summer Time Act 1972 [6]
  • The Summer Time Order 1997 [7]
  • The Summer Time Order 2002 [8]

See also

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужно сделать НИР?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Daylight saving time by country — See also: List of time zones by country Daylight Saving Time Countries as October 2011  & …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Egypt — The British first instituted daylight saving time in Egypt during the Second World War, specifically between 1940 and 1945. The practice was stopped after the war, but resumed 12 years later, in 1957. Egypt normally observed daylight saving time… …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time — This article is about daylight saving time in general. For DST in a specific location, see Daylight saving time by country. Summer time and DST redirect here. For other uses, see Summer time (disambiguation) and DST (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Tunisia — Tunisia adopted daylight saving time for the first time in 2005 starting 1 May 2005 and following EU DST schedules thereafter. This comes as a move by the government to promote saving of energy. In 2009 the government of Tunisia canceled DST and… …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Africa — Time zones of Africa: black UTC 1: Cape Verde Time. green UTC: Western European Time · Greenwich Me …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Germany — Daylight saving time was first introduced during World War I by the German Empire in the years 1916 to 1918. After the end of the war and the proclamation of the Weimar Republic in November 1918, daylight saving time ceased to be observed in… …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Ukraine — (also locally known by the expression summer time ) was introduced in 1981. History Daylight saving time was introduced in Ukraine in the early 1980 s; from 1981 till 1989 this was Moscow Summer Time, after independence Eastern European Summer… …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Romania — was originally introduced in 1932 (between May 22 and October 2). Between 1933 and 1940 DST started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the first Sunday in October. The DST was abandoned in 1941, to be reintroduced in 1979. Until 1996, with …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Italy — was adopted and abolished several times. DST observation took place from 1916 until 1920. Then again between 1944 and 1948, during and after WWII. A law was approved in 1965 that took effect the following year, and made the application of DST… …   Wikipedia

  • Daylight saving time in Bulgaria — was introduced in 1979 by a regulation of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers. Bulgaria observes the European Union rules for DST.[1] References ^ http://www.novinite.com/view news.php?id=113965 …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”