Canary Islands

 

Canary Islands

 
Time Zone
The Canary Islands are in the Western European Time Zone.  Western European Standard Time (WET) is the same time as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Greenwich, England has been the home of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) since 1884.  GMT is sometimes called Greenwich Meridian Time because it is measured from the Greenwich Meridian Line at the Royal Observatory  in Greenwich.  It is the place from which all time zones around the world are related to.
 
 
GMT is World Time and the basis of every world time zone which sets the time of day and is at the centre of the time zone map.  GMT sets current time or official time around the globe.  GMT is Greenwich Mean (or Meridian ) Time is the mean (average) time that the earth takes to rotate from noon-to-noon.  Most time changes are measured by GMT.  Although GMT has been replaced by atomic time (UTC) it is still widely regarded as the correct time for every international time zone.
 
 
The Canary Islands observe Daylight Saving / Summer time like most states in Europe, where the time is moved forward by 1 hour;  1 hours ahead of Greenwich Meantime (GMT+1) and after the summer months the time is moved back by 1 hour.
 
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