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margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B04:00" title="UTC+04:00">UTC+04:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="4"><a href="/wiki/French_Southern_and_Antarctic_Lands" title="French Southern and Antarctic Lands">French Southern<br />and Antarctic Lands</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scattered_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Scattered Islands">Scattered Islands</a></td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="3"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B03:00" title="UTC+03:00">UTC+03:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Crozet_Islands" title="Crozet Islands">Crozet Islands</a></td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="4"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B04:00" title="UTC+04:00">UTC+04:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands" title="Kerguelen Islands">Kerguelen</a>, <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Saint-Paul" title="Île Saint-Paul">Saint Paul</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/%C3%8Ele_Amsterdam" title="Île Amsterdam">Amsterdam</a> islands</td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="5"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B05:00" title="UTC+05:00">UTC+05:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="font-style:italic"> <td><a href="/wiki/Ad%C3%A9lie_Land" title="Adélie Land">Adélie Land</a></td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="10"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B10:00" title="UTC+10:00">UTC+10:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/New_Caledonia" title="New Caledonia">New Caledonia</a></td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="11"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B11:00" title="UTC+11:00">UTC+11:00</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Wallis_and_Futuna" title="Wallis and Futuna">Wallis and Futuna</a></td> <td colspan="2" data-sort-value="12"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B12:00" title="UTC+12:00">UTC+12:00</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Summer_time">Summer time</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Time_in_France&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Summer time"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">Metropolitan France</a> follows the <a href="/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe" title="Summer time in Europe">summer time schedule in Europe</a>. Summer time starts on the last Sunday in March at 01:00 <a href="/wiki/UTC" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC">UTC</a>, when local time changes from 02:00 (UTC+01:00) to 03:00 (UTC+02:00), and ends on the last Sunday in October at 01:00 UTC, when local time changes from 03:00 (UTC+02:00) to 02:00 (UTC+01:00).<sup id="cite_ref-decree2017_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-decree2017-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon" title="Saint Pierre and Miquelon">Saint Pierre and Miquelon</a> follows the <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Canada" title="Daylight saving time in Canada">daylight saving time schedule of Canada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States" title="Daylight saving time in the United States">of the United States</a>. It starts on the second Sunday in March at 02:00 (UTC−03:00), when local time changes to 03:00 (UTC−02:00), and ends on the first Sunday in November at 02:00 (UTC−02:00), when local time changes to 01:00 (UTC−03:00).<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Other parts of <a href="/wiki/Overseas_France" title="Overseas France">Overseas France</a> do not observe summer time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Time_in_France&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before 1891, each town and city in <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_France" title="Metropolitan France">Metropolitan France</a> had its own time based on local <a href="/wiki/Solar_time" title="Solar time">solar time</a>. In 1891, to avoid complications with railway timetables, time was unified in Metropolitan France and based on the solar time at the <a href="/wiki/Paris_Observatory" title="Paris Observatory">Paris Observatory</a> — the <a href="/wiki/Paris_meridian" title="Paris meridian">Paris meridian</a> being approximately 2°20′ east of the <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_meridian" class="mw-redirect" title="Greenwich meridian">Greenwich meridian</a>, Paris mean solar time was 9 minutes 21 seconds ahead of <a href="/wiki/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time">Greenwich Mean Time</a> (GMT). In detail, the railway companies used a unified time which lagged behind Paris solar time by 5 minutes, for the benefit of non-punctual travellers.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1911, Metropolitan France adopted GMT+0 as its official time, and used it until 1940 (with GMT+1 used during the summers from 1916 to 1940). </p><p>In the summer of 1940, the German military authorities switched the occupied northern part of Metropolitan France to GMT+2 (German summer time), while the non-occupied southern part of Metropolitan France remained at GMT+1 (French summer time). The <a href="/wiki/Vichy_France" title="Vichy France">Vichy authorities</a> kept GMT+1 (French summer time) during the winter of 1940–1941 and adopted GMT+2 (double summer time, which was the same as German summer time) in May 1941 in order to unify the railway timetables between occupied and non-occupied Metropolitan France. In 1942, 1943, and 1944 the whole of Metropolitan France thus used GMT+2 during the summer, and GMT+1 during the winter.<sup id="cite_ref-Poulle_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poulle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/Liberation_of_France" title="Liberation of France">Liberation of France</a> in the summer of 1944, Metropolitan France kept GMT+2 as it was the time then used by the Allies (<a href="/wiki/British_Summer_Time#Periods_of_deviation" title="British Summer Time">British Double Summer Time</a>). In the winter of 1944–1945, Metropolitan France switched to GMT+1, same as in the United Kingdom, and switched again to GMT+2 in April 1945. In September 1945, Metropolitan France returned to GMT+1 (pre-war summer time), which the British had already done in July 1945. Metropolitan France was officially scheduled to return to GMT+0 on November 18, 1945 (the British returned to GMT+0 in on October 7, 1945), but the French government canceled the decision on November 5, 1945, and GMT+1 has since then remained the official time of Metropolitan France.<sup id="cite_ref-Poulle_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Poulle-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1976, daylight saving time (summer time) was reintroduced in Metropolitan France for the first time since WW2 because of the <a href="/wiki/1973_oil_crisis" title="1973 oil crisis">oil crisis</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and since 1976 Metropolitan France has thus been at GMT+1 (now <a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a>) during the winter and GMT+2 (now <a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a>) during the summer. In 1996,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> daylight saving time was harmonized throughout the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> by Directive 2000/84/EC, which moved the end of DST to the last Sunday in October. </p><p>A proposal to repeal this directive and require that member states observe their own choice of time year-round from 2021 is going through the legislative process as of March 2019<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Time_in_France&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A non-binding public consultation showed that approximately 59% of respondents would prefer France to apply year-round summer time (UTC+02:00), with 37% in favour of year-round winter time (UTC+01:00) and 4% expressing no preference.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (October 2024)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Since GMT (now UTC) is Metropolitan France's "natural" time zone, its use of <a href="/wiki/UTC%2B01:00" title="UTC+01:00">UTC+01:00</a> in winter can be seen as a form of <a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">daylight saving time</a> in winter, while Central European Summer Time (<a href="/wiki/UTC%2B02:00" title="UTC+02:00">UTC+02:00</a>) can be seen as a form of "double summer time."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notation">Notation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Time_in_France&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Notation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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