Time in Austria

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Time in Austria
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A clock tower in Austria
Time zone Central European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offset UTC+01:00
Adopted1 October 1891 (Prague and Budapest)
1 April 1893 (Vienna)
Daylight saving time
Name Central European Summer Time
InitialsCEST
UTC offset UTC+02:00
StartLast Sunday in March (02:00 CET)
EndLast Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)
tz database
Europe/Vienna

In Austria, the standard time is Central European Time [a] (CET; UTC+01:00). [1] Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). [2]

Contents

History

The Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted CET on 1 October 1891. At first railways and post offices, cities such as Prague and Budapest, however not Vienna. [3] [4] Vienna eventually adopted CET on 1 April 1893. [5]

Time notation

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Austria is given the zone Europe/Vienna. [6]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetDST
AT +4813+01620 Europe/Vienna +01:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. ↑ Time in Austria. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Austria at The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Kunt, Miroslav (2004). "Studie - Zavedení středoevropského času". archiv.kvalitne.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Milling, Volume 1, 1892. D.H. Ranck Publishing Company. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Time Zone in Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Wien). TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.

Notes

  1. ↑ German: Mitteleuropäische Zeit; MEZ


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