Editing Standard time (section)

=== The Netherlands ===
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In the Netherlands, introduction of the railways made it desirable to create a standard time. On 1 May 1909, [[UTC+00:20|Amsterdam Time]] or Dutch Time was introduced. Before that, time was measured in different cities; in the east of the country, this was a few minutes earlier than in the west. After that, all parts of the country had the same local time—that of the Wester Tower in [[Amsterdam]] (Westertoren/4°53'01.95" E). This time was indicated as GMT +0h 19m 32.13s until 17 March 1937, after which it was simplified to GMT+0h20m. This time zone was also known as the ''Loenen time'' or ''Gorinchem time'', as this was the exact time in both [[Loenen aan de Vecht|Loenen]] and [[Gorinchem]]. At noon in Amsterdam, it was 11:40 in [[London]] and 12:40 in [[Berlin]].

The shift to the current [[Central European Time]] zone took place on 16 May 1940. The German occupiers ordered the clock to be moved an hour and forty minutes forward. This time was kept in summer and winter throughout 1941 and 1942. It was only in November 1942 that a different Winter time was introduced, and the time was adjusted one hour backwards. This lasted for only three years; after the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945, Summer time was abolished for over thirty years, so during those years, standard time was 40 minutes ahead of the original Amsterdam Time. As of 2017, the Netherlands is in line with Central European Time (GMT+1 in the winter, GMT+2 in the summer, which is significantly different from Amsterdam Time).