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Central European Summer Time is 2 hours ahead of Universal Time Coordinated
4:00 pm16:00 in CEST is 2:00 pm14:00 in UTC

CEST to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 10am-6pm in CEST which corresponds to 8am-4pm in UTC

4:00 pm16:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

4:00 pm16:00 CEST / 2:00 pm14:00 UTC

CEST	UTC
12am (midnight)	10pm
1am	11pm
2am	12am (midnight)
3am	1am
4am	2am
5am	3am
6am	4am
7am	5am
8am	6am
9am	7am
10am	8am
11am	9am
12pm (noon)	10am
1pm	11am
2pm	12pm (noon)
3pm	1pm
4pm	2pm
5pm	3pm
6pm	4pm
7pm	5pm
8pm	6pm
9pm	7pm
10pm	8pm
11pm	9pm
0:00	22:00
1:00	23:00
2:00	0:00
3:00	1:00
4:00	2:00
5:00	3:00
6:00	4:00
7:00	5:00
8:00	6:00
9:00	7:00
10:00	8:00
11:00	9:00
12:00	10:00
13:00	11:00
14:00	12:00
15:00	13:00
16:00	14:00
17:00	15:00
18:00	16:00
19:00	17:00
20:00	18:00
21:00	19:00
22:00	20:00
23:00	21:00

Central European Summer Time

Offset: CEST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe

Countries: It is used in following countries: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Vatican City

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CEST timezone is Berlin from Germany with population about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in the area are Madrid, Rome, Paris, Budapest

German: MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit

Daylight Saving: Central European Summer Time (CEST) is a daylight saving/summer timezone, however during winter some places switch clocks for one hour back and observe Central European Time (CET).

Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) started on Sunday, March 31, 2024 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 31, 2024, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually the on last Sunday of March

End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ends on Sunday, October 27, 2024 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 27, 2024, 2:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually the on last Sunday of October

CEST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

+02 - basic short
+0200 - basic
+02:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Bravo - Military abbreviation for CEST
B - short form of 'Bravo'

IANA/Olson: Reflects CEST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Africa/Ceuta
Arctic/Longyearbyen
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
CET
Europe/Amsterdam
Europe/Andorra
Europe/Belgrade
Europe/Berlin
Europe/Bratislava
Europe/Brussels
Europe/Budapest
Europe/Busingen
Europe/Copenhagen
Europe/Gibraltar
Europe/Ljubljana
Europe/Luxembourg
Europe/Madrid
Europe/Malta
Europe/Monaco
Europe/Oslo
Europe/Paris
Europe/Podgorica
Europe/Prague
Europe/Rome
Europe/San_Marino
Europe/Sarajevo
Europe/Skopje
Europe/Stockholm
Europe/Tirane
Europe/Vaduz
Europe/Vatican
Europe/Vienna
Europe/Warsaw
Europe/Zagreb
Europe/Zurich
Poland

Time zones with the GMT +2 offset:

CEST - Central European Summer Time
EET - Eastern European Time
MESZ - MitteleuropÃ¤ische Sommerzeit
B - Bravo Time Zone
CAT - Central Africa Time
IST - Israel Standard Time
SAST - South Africa Standard Time
WAST - West Africa Summer Time

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
+00 - basic short
+0000 - basic
+00:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

+0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates zero hour and zero minutes time differences of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
Z - short form of 'Zulu'

IANA/Olson: Reflects UTC time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

Etc/UCT
Etc/UTC
Etc/Universal
Etc/Zulu
UCT
UTC
Universal
Zulu

Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:

EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
WET - Western European Time
AZOST - Azores Summer Time
UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
Z - Zulu Time Zone

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