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Time in Lithuania

Time in Lithuania is given by Eastern European Time. 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. Lithuania adopted EET in 1920.

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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)
Pink Kazakhstan Time / Yekaterinburg Time (UTC+5)
 Pale hues: Standard time observed all year
    Dark hues: Daylight saving time
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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 Lithuania adopted EET in 1920.

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* Comments UTC offset DST
LT +5441+02519 Europe/Vilnius +02:00 +03:00
See also

See also

References

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.
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