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Time in Slovenia

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Time in Slovenia
Time zoneCentral European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
Time notation12-hour clockand24-hour clock
Adopted1 October 1891 (as theAustro-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

InSlovenia,the standard time isCentral European Time(Slovene:Srednjeevropski čas;CET;UTC+01:00).[1]Daylight saving timeis 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 otherEUmember states.

History

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TheAustro-Hungarian Empireadopted 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

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Slovenia uses both the12-hourand24-hour clock.[citation needed]

IANA time zone database

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In theIANA time zone database,Slovenia is given one zone in the filezone.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

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References

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  1. ^Time in Slovenia.TimeAndDate.com.Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. ^SloveniaatThe World Factbook.Central Intelligence Agency(CIA). Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ^Kunt, Miroslav (2004)."Studie - Zavedení středoevropského času".archiv.kvalitne.cz(in Czech).Retrieved2 May2021.
  4. ^Time Changes in Ljubljana Over the Years.TimeAndDate.com.Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  5. ^Europe(2020 edition) at thetz database.Internet Assigned Numbers Authority(IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
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