Time in Sweden | |
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Time zone | Central European Time |
Initials | CET |
UTC offset | UTC+01:00 |
Time notation | 24-hour clock |
Adopted | 1900 |
Daylight saving time | |
Name | Central European Summer Time |
Initials | CEST |
UTC offset | UTC+02:00 |
Start | Last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) |
End | Last 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]
Times are written with the 24-hour clock, with full stops as separators (although colons are sometimes used instead of full stops).[ citation needed]
In the IANA time zone database, Sweden is given Europe/Stockholm. [4]
c.c.* | coordinates* | TZ* | Comments | UTC offset | DST |
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SE | +5920+01803 | Europe/Stockholm | +01:00 | +02:00 |