Time in Sweden

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Time in Sweden
Time zone Central European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offset UTC+01:00
Time notation 24-hour clock
Adopted1900
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/Stockholm

In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00; Swedish : centraleuropeisk tid). [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] Sweden adopted CET in 1900. [3]

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Time notation

Times are written with the 24-hour clock, with full stops as separators (although colons are sometimes used instead of full stops).[ citation needed ]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Sweden is given Europe/Stockholm. [4]

c.c.*coordinates*TZ*CommentsUTC offsetDST
SE +5920+01803Europe/Stockholm +01:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. ↑ Time in Sweden. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  2. ↑ Sweden at The World Factbook . Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. ↑ Time Zone & Clock Changes in Stockholm, Sweden. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  4. ↑ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.


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