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In mainland Portugal and Madeira, clocks must be advanced one hour when it is 01:00, changing to 02:00. In the Azores the change will be made at 00:00, changing to 01:00.

The hands of the clock will be advanced one hour in the next morning, for legal summer time.

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In mainland Portugal and in the Autonomous Region of Madeira, clocks must be set forward one hour when it is 01:00, changing to 02:00. In the Azores Autonomous Region, the change will be made at 00:00, changing to 01:00.

The legal time will change again on October 29, for the winter regime.

The current regime for changing the time is regulated by a directive (community law) of 2000, which provides that every year the clocks are set forward and backward by one hour on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October, marking the beginning and end of the day. end of summer time, recalls the Official Journal of the European Union.

The summer solstice takes place on the 21st of June at 14:58.

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