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Line 1: {{~~short~~Short description\|~~Overview~~none}} of<!-- "none" is preferred when the ~~time~~title ~~zones~~is ~~used~~sufficiently indescriptive; ~~Germany}}~~see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Time zones of Europe}} Line 7: The [[IANA time zone database]] contains two zones for Germany, "Europe/Berlin" and "Europe/Busingen", although in 1945, the [[Trizone]] did not follow [[Berlin]]'s switch to midsummer time.{{Citation needed\|date=April 2010}} [[Germany]] had been politically divided into [[East Germany]] and [[West Germany]] at and after the start of the ~~unix~~[[Unix time\|Unix epoch]], which is the date from which the tz database wants to record correct information. The database aims to include at least one zone for every [[ISO 3166-1]] alpha-2 country code. This list was first issued in 1997, after the reunification of Germany in 1990. Hence only the unified Germany is listed.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2074/match=east+germany \|title=Re: FW: FW: Corrections to historic German timezone information \|first=Jonathan \|last=Lennox \|publisher=gmane.comp.time.tz \|date=2008-02-11}}</ref> The zone Europe/Busingen was created in the 2013a release of the tz database,<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2013-March/000009.html \|title=tzcode2013a and tzdata2013a available \|first=Paul \|last=Eggert \|publisher=mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/ \|date=2013-03-02}}</ref> because since the [[Unix time]] epoch in 1970, [[Büsingen am Hochrhein\|Büsingen]] has shared clocks with [[Zurich]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4765 \|title=New zone for DE, split from Europe/Berlin \|first=Arthur David \|last=Olson \|publisher=gmane.comp.time.tz \|date=2012-03-03}}</ref> Büsingen did not observe DST in 1980 like the rest of ~~what was then~~ West Germany, but did so from 1981 after [[Switzerland]] adopted DST. == History == Line 15: [[Daylight saving time]] was first introduced during [[World War I]] by the [[German Empire]] in the years 1916 to 1918. After the end of the war and the proclamation of the [[Weimar Republic]] in November 1918, daylight saving time ceased to be observed. It was used again 1940–1949 (from 1945 differently in the West and East) and introduced again from 1980. West and East Germany had the same time and DST from 1950 until unification. In 1996, daylight saving time was harmonised throughout the [[European Union]] by Directive 2000/84/EC, which moved the end of DST to the last Sunday in October. In 1980 the exclave [[Büsingen am Hochrhein\|Büsingen]] did not use DST in order to keep to the [[Time in Switzerland\|same time as Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/-/video/schweizer-zeit-in-buesingen?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3 \|title=Schweizer Zeit in Büsingen \|publisher=Schweizer Fernsehen: SF Videoportal \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108012030/http://www.srf.ch/player/tv/-/video/schweizer-zeit-in-buesingen?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3 \|archive-date=2015-01-08 }}</ref> ==See also== Line 24: ==External links== [http://www.ptb.de/de/org/4/44/_index.htm Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt -– Legal Time] {{in lang\|de}} [http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/me_einhg/__4.html Gesetz über die Einheiten im Messwesen und die Zeitbestimmung § 4 (EinhZeitG, ''Units and Time Act'')] {{in lang\|de}} *[http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sozv/ Sommerzeitverordnung (''Summer Time Ordinance'')] {{in lang\|de}} Line 32: [[Category:Time in Germany\| ]] [[Category:Geography of Germany]]