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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.
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.
First Sunday in October at 02:00. First Sunday in April at 02:00. 30 minutes. New Zealand. Last Sunday in September at 02:00 UTC+12:00 [ d] First Sunday in April at 02:00 UTC+12:00 [ d] 1 hour. In the table above, the DST start and end times refer to the local time before each change occurs, unless otherwise specified. The shift is the amount ...
The name for Sweden is generally agreed to derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *s(w)e, meaning "one's own", referring to one's own tribe from the tribal period. [15] [16] [17] The native Swedish name, Sverige (a compound of the words Svea and rike, first recorded in the cognate Swēorice in Beowulf), [18] translates as "realm of the Swedes", which excluded the Geats in Götaland.
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]
April 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM. STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's parliament on Wednesday passed a law that will make it easier for people to change their legal gender and lower the age at which it is ...
This is a list representing time zones by country. Countries are ranked by total number of time zones on their territory. Time zones of a country include that of dependent territories (except Antarctic claims). France, including its overseas territories, has the most time zones with 12 (13 including its claim in Antarctica and all other counties ).
160,885 km 2 (62,118 sq mi) Sweden is a country in Northern Europe on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It borders Norway to the west (which is one of Sweden’s non- EU neighbours); Finland to the northeast; and the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Bothnia to the south and east. At 450,295 km 2 (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the largest country in Northern Europe ...