Daylight saving time in Sweden

In Sweden daylight saving time was originally introduced on May 15, 1916. It proved unpopular at the time, and on September 30 in the same year, Sweden returned to year-round standard time. This situation continued for more than half a century.

On April 6, 1980, Sweden again introduced daylight saving time, and since then DST has been observed every summer in Sweden. Except for the introduction year 1980, daylight saving time has always started on the last Sunday in March. It ended on the last Sunday in September during the years 1980-1995, and on the last Sunday in October from 1996 onwards, following a unification of start/end dates of DST within the EU as well as in several European countries then outside the EU.

Five days before the reintroduction of DST in 1980, a major Swedish newspaper took the opportunity to publish an April Fool's Day joke on April 1, 1980. The joke claimed that DST had been introduced almost in secret with nearly no public information, that everybody was late everywhere, that hardly anyone really knew what the time was, and that there was chaos everywhere.

See also

• Time in Sweden

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