Current time in uk

London Time Add London (United Kingdom) to your list and use my-locations table to visually convert it's time to another timezone or city time. Mouse over the colored hour-tiles and glance at the hours selected by the column. Current time zone for London (United Kingdom) is BST, whose offset is GMT+1 from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The IANA timezone identifier for London, United Kingdom is " Europe/London" DST started on Sunday, October 30 2022 at 2:00 local time, when time in London moved back 1 hour to 1:00. DST ends on Sunday, October 29 2023 at 2:00 local time, when time in London moves back 1 hour to 1:00.

World Time Zones Earth is split up into a number of timezones. Most timezones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC or GMT. In many locations, these offsets vary twice yearly due to DST transitions. Every country may have a particular standard time zone though, if it is more convenient for its world cooperation. The standard time zone is a region where the local or national authorities unify the time for a particular goal. The time zones obey specific rules referring to longitude. Complete guide on world time zones • • GMT and UTC The implementation of Greenwich Mean Time was the first step to determine the time zone of other countries in regard to GMT+0, while the concept of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) was designed to provide a more accurate timekeeping system. Nevertheless, both of these time standards are widely used in the world for a similar purpose of time coordination. The differences in the terminology of GMT and UTC still create confusion in international cooperation. Even though UTC was introduced as a more accurate time standard, the occurrence of the leap seconds demonstrated the flaws for the universal time synchronisation. Daylight Saving Time The concept of Daylight Saving Time (DST) was proposed by Benjamin Franklin and refers to advancing the standard time within the region or zone by one hour to enhance the duration of daytime. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour in spring and backward...