Time in Lithuania

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Time in Europe:
Light Blue
Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Blue
Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1)
Red
Central European Time (UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Yellow
Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)
Ochre
Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
Green
Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise
Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time (UTC+4)
#### Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
### Dark colours: Summer time observed Time zones of Europe, incl. Transcaucasia.svg
Time in Europe:
Light Blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1)
Red Central European Time (UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Yellow Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)
Ochre Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
Green Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3)
Turquoise Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time / Samara Time (UTC+4)
 Pale colours: Standard time observed all year
 Dark colours: Summer time observed

Time in Lithuania is given by Eastern European Time (EET; UTC+02:00). [1] Daylight saving time, which moves one hour ahead to UTC+03:00 is observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October. [2] Latvia adopted EET in 1920.[ citation needed ]

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History

Lithuania observed DST between 1941 and 1944, and since 1989 (with a brief break between 2000 and 2002). [3]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Lithuania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Vilnius. Data for Lithuania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetDST
LT +5441+02519 Europe/Vilnius +02:00 +03:00

See also

References

  1. Time in Lithuania. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  2. Lithuania at The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  3. Clock Changes in Vilnius, Lithuania. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  4. Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.