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Time in the Republic of Ireland

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Ireland uses Western European Time (UTC) in the summer period, and Irish Standard Time or Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) in the winter months.

History

The Standard Time Act 1968 [1] stipulated that standard time is UTC+1 (CET) and from 1968 clocks were not turned back one hour during winter. The subsequent Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 [2] effectively reversed this, and from 1971 returned winter time to UTC+0 (Western European Time), it did not however change the names of the Irish summer time zone, which are still, officially, Irish Standard Time (IST) and Am Caighdeánach na hÉireann (ACÉ).

  1. ^ "Irish Standard Time Act, 1968".
  2. ^ "Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971".
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