Post #3124556
2026-06-03 08:27 UTC
In my book (Suite Française, yes I read slowly 😅), the French are saying “at our house, we don’t live on German time”.
Huh, I thought, European countries still had different time zones then. So I looked it up and it’s kinda fascinating. First to implement CET: The Kingdom of Serbia (1884). Luxembourg joined in 1904, but left again in 1918. 😅 (after the first German occupation)
BUT THEN! A whole bunch of countries were switched to CET under German occupation in 1940, and never switched back!! 😆 So, poor Frenchies in my book would be “on German time” forevermore.
Also interesting: “Portugal used CET in the years 1966–1976 and 1992–1996.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Time
Replies (1)
-
@gewappnet@mstdn.social 2026-06-03 09:01
@clarissawam@mefi.social Ich hatte mich vor einiger Zeit damit intensiver beschäftigt wegen des World-Time-Ziffernblatt der Apple Watch: https://arun.is/blog/apple-watch-world-time-face/ Interessanterweise wird auf solchen Weltzeituhren meist Paris stellvertretend für die CET-Zeitzone genommen, obwohl die Stadt geographisch gar nicht in der Zeitzone liegt.