Other names which have been applied to Central European Summer Time are Middle European Summer Time (MEST),[3] Central European Daylight Saving Time (CEDT),[4] and Bravo Time (after the second letter of theNATO phonetic alphabet).[5]
Since 1996,European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.[6]
There were proposals toabandon summer time in Europe from 2021, possibly by moving winter time up by an hour and keeping that time through the year.[7]