In these competitions the radio amateur should be exchange informations with different stations into different countries.
The confirmation will be storage in a "log" file.

All dates and detailed informations of a special contest organzied by the german DARC e.V., will be available at DARC contest calender.

In contrast to the usally used time in germany, is the UTC-time a international time specification.
The UTC-time is also not affected by european summer- and winter time-shift.