In
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
, the standard time is
Central European Time (CET;
UTC+01:00).
Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). Sweden adopted CET in 1900.
Time notation
Times are written with the
24-hour clock
The modern 24-hour clock, popularly referred to in the United States as military time, is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) pas ...
, with full stops as separators (although colons are sometimes used instead of full stops).
IANA time zone database
In the
IANA time zone database, Sweden is given
Europe/Stockholm
In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00). Daylight saving time is observed from the last Sunday in March (02:00 CET) to the last Sunday in October (03:00 CEST). Sweden adopted CET in 1900.
Time notation
Times a ...
.
Europe
(2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
See also
* Time in Europe
* List of time zones by country
*List of time zones by UTC offset
This is a list of the UTC time offsets, showing the difference in hours and minutes from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), from the westernmost (−12:00) to the easternmost (+14:00). It includes countries and regions that observe them during stan ...
References
External links
Current time in Sweden
at ''Time.is''
Time in Sweden
at '' Lonely Planet''
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