Times in MACR: Central European Time?

[TigerTimon]

Dear members,

Are the times mentioned on the front page of a MACR in GMT +2 (Central European Time) or GMT +1 as adopted on the 17th of September 1944 at 3 AM?

Kind regards,
Timon

[Nick Beale]

As far as I know, the time given would be the local time in use on the day of the loss.

In Britain in 1944, GMT+2 ("British Double Summer Time") was in use from 2 April to 17 September, as you say. The rest of the year was GMT+1. I think (but pease correct me) that Allied forces deployed to the European mainland continued using the time in Britain - that would probably have been easier all round for command purposes.

Central European Time was (and is) GMT+1 but mainland Europe was on German Summer Time (GMT+2) from 3 April to 2 October 1944.

[TigerTimon]

Thanks for your reply, Nick.

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

As far as I know, the time given would be the local time in use on the day of the loss.

It seems to me that the time used for MACR was the local time used at the base used by the unit, rather than the local time at the place of loss.

By the way, on a similar matter, I discover recently that times of U-boat attacks used on uboat.net for early 1942 along the US coast were using Berlin times rather than local time, with 5 or 6 hours difference between the two.