Time in Slovenia
Time zoneCentral European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Time notation12-hour clock and 24-hour clock
Adopted1 October 1891 (as the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
Daylight saving time
NameCentral European Summer Time
InitialsCEST
UTC offsetUTC+02:00
StartLast Sunday in March (02:00 CET)
EndLast Sunday in October (03:00 CEST)
In use since1983
tz database
Europe/Ljubljana

In Slovenia, the standard time is Central European Time (Slovene: Srednjeevropski čas; 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] This is shared with several other EU member states.

History

The Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted CET on 1 October 1891.[3] Slovenia would continue to observe CET after independence, and observed daylight saving time between 1941 and 1946, and again since 1983.[4]

Notation

Slovenia uses both the 12-hour and 24-hour clock.

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Slovenia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Ljubljana. Data for Slovenia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[5]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
SI+4603+01431Europe/Ljubljana +01:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. Time in Slovenia. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. Slovenia at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. Kunt, Miroslav (2004). "Studie - Zavedení středoevropského času". archiv.kvalitne.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  4. Time Changes in Ljubljana Over the Years. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  5. Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.


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