Time_in_Austria Knowpia

Time in Austria
Time in Austria
	A clock tower in Austria
Time zone	Central European Time
Initials	CET
UTC offset	UTC+01:00
Adopted	1 October 1891 (Prague and Budapest); 1 April 1893 (Vienna)
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)
tz database
	Europe/Vienna

In Austria, the standard time is Central European Time^[a] (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]

History edit

The Austro-Hungarian Empire adopted CET on 1 October 1891. At first railways and post offices, cities such as Prague and Budapest, however not Vienna.^[3]^[4] Vienna eventually adopted CET on 1 April 1893.^[5]

Time notation edit

IANA time zone database edit

In the IANA time zone database, Austria is given the zone Europe/Vienna.^[6]

c.c.*	coordinates*	TZ*	Comments	UTC offset	DST
AT	+4813+01620	Europe/Vienna		+01:00	+02:00

References edit

^ Time in Austria. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ Austria at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ Kunt, Miroslav (2004). "Studie - Zavedení středoevropského času". archiv.kvalitne.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ Milling, Volume 1, 1892. D.H. Ranck Publishing Company. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ Time Zone in Vienna, Vienna, Austria (Wien). TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
^ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.