Time in North Macedonia

Time in North Macedonia
Time zone	Central European Time
Initials	CET
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
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)
In use since	1983
tz database
Europe/Skopje

In North Macedonia, the standard time is Central European Time (Macedonian: Средноевропско време; 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

North Macedonia observed daylight saving time between 1941 and 1945, and again since 1983 (by this time part of Yugoslavia).[3]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, North Macedonia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Skopje. Data for North Macedonia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
MK	+4159+02126	Europe/Skopje		+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 North Macedonia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
2. North Macedonia at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 5 May 2021.
3. "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Skopje, North Macedonia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
4. Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.

External links

• Current time in North Macedonia at Time.is