Time in Slovenia

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.

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

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