Time in North Macedonia

Time in North Macedonia
Time zoneCentral European Time
InitialsCET
UTC offsetUTC+01:00
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/Skopje

In North Macedonia, the standard time is Central European Time (Macedonian: Средноевропско време; 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

North Macedonia observed daylight saving time between 1941 and 1945, and again since 1983 (by this time part of Yugoslavia).[3]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, North Macedonia is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Skopje. Data for North Macedonia directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:[4]

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
MK +4159+02126 Europe/Skopje +01:00 +02:00

See also

References

  1. ^ "Time in North Macedonia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  2. ^ North Macedonia at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Skopje, North Macedonia". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  4. ^ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.


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