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Western European Time is a time zone covering parts of western Europe and consists of countries using UTC±00:00. It is one of the three standard time zones in the European Union along with Central European Time and Eastern European Time.
The following Western European countries and regions use UTC±00:00 in winter months:
All the above countries except Iceland implement daylight saving time in summer , switching to Western European Summer Time , which is one hour ahead of WET. WEST is called British Summer Time in the UK and is legally defined as Irish Standard Time in Ireland.
The nominal span of the UTC±00:00 time zone is 7.5°E to 7.5°W , but does not include the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Gibraltar or Spain which use Central European Time even though these are mostly or completely west of 7.5°E. Conversely, Iceland and eastern Greenland use UTC±00:00 although both are west of 7.5°W. In September 2013, a Spanish parliamentary committee recommended switching to UTC±00:00.