Time in Slovenia

Time in Slovenia
Time zone	Central European Time
Initials	CET
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
Time notation	12-hour clock and 24-hour clock
Adopted	1 October 1891 (as the Austro-Hungarian Empire)
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/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.^[citation needed]

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 offset	DST
SI	+4603+01431	Europe/Ljubljana		+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 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.

External links

• Time in Slovenia at TimeAndDate.com.