Countries Not Using Summer Time / de-facto "permanent Summer Time"
Three countries do not use summer time, and keep the same time all year. However, all three may be thought of as using a form of "permanent" summer time since they are using time zones which lie to the east of their location under a "pure" time zone system. Russia and Belarus explicitly decided to stay permanently on the former summer time after 2011. The effect of this is to give "later" sunrises and sunsets during winter than previously. (Spain, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands may also be thought of as observing "summer-time" throughout the winter, and "double-summer time" during summer, because of their position far to the west of the central European time zone).
- Belarus, ended its last summer time switching after moving the clocks forward in Spring 2011, and is now observing UTC+03:00 all year round.
- Iceland, observing UTC all year round despite being at a longitude which would indicate UTC-1. Iceland's high latitude means that sunset and sunrise times change by many hours over the year, and the effect of changing the clock by one hour would, in comparison, be small.
- Russia, ended its last summer time switch after moving the clocks forward in Spring 2011, and is now observing the time that formerly was summer, all year round. Many areas have its time two hours ahead of the mean solar time. Moscow has UTC+04:00.
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