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In Sweden, the standard time is Central European Time (CET; UTC+01:00; Swedish: centraleuropeisk tid ). [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] Sweden adopted CET in 1900.
After a decision by the parliament in 1875, [1] Sweden adopted the metric system on 22 November 1878, with a ten-year transition period until 1 January 1889. As part of the transition, the Swedish mil measurement was maintained, but was shortened from 18 000 alnar – the equivalent of 10.69 km (6.64 mi) – to exactly 10 kilometres (6.2 mi).
List of countries and dependencies by area. Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which ...
List of cities in Sweden. Map of Sweden. Stockholm, capital of Sweden. Gothenburg. Malmö. This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town ( Swedish: stad, plural städer ). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted a royal charter. The ...
Such designations can be ambiguous; for example, "CST" can mean China Standard Time (UTC+8), Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5), and (North American) Central Standard Time (UTC−6), and it is also a widely used variant of ACST (Australian Central Standard Time, UTC+9:30). Such designations predate both ISO 8601 and the internet era; in an earlier ...
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
In time, the American government, influenced in part by Abbe's 1879 paper, adopted the time-zone system. [13] It was a version proposed by William F. Allen, the editor of the Traveler's Official Railway Guide. [14] The borders of its time zones ran through railroad stations, often in major cities.
Dagen H ( H-day ), today usually called " Högertrafikomläggningen " ( lit. 'the right-hand traffic reorganisation' ), was on 3 September 1967, the day in which Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right. [ 2] The "H" stands for " Högertrafik ", the Swedish word for right-hand traffic.