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] Latvia 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 offsetDST
LT+5441+02519Europe/Vilnius +02:00 +03:00

See also

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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