Time in Austria

Time in Austria
A clock tower in Austria
Time zone	Central European Time
Initials	CET
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
Adopted	1 October 1891 (Prague and Budapest) 1 April 1893 (Vienna)
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/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]

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

Main article: Date and time notation in Austria

IANA time zone database

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

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
AT	+4813+01620	Europe/Vienna		+01:00	+02:00

See also

• Time in Europe
• List of time zones by country
• List of time zones by UTC offset

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

External links

• Current time in Austria at Time.is