In Romania, the standard time is Eastern European Time (; EET; UTC+02:00).Time in Romania. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 6 May 2021. Daylight saving time, which moves one hour ahead to UTC+03:00 is observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.Romania at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 6 May 2021.
Daylight saving time Daylight saving time (DST) in Romania (locally known by "Ora de Vară") was originally introduced in 1932 (between 22 May and 2 October). Between 1933 and 1940, DST started on the first Sunday in April and ended on the first Sunday in October. DST was abandoned in 1941 and reintroduced in 1979.Ora de vară. (in Romanian). Observatorul Astronomic. Retrieved 5 July 2021. [Contains tables with all historical summer time start and end dates since 1932] Since 1996, with a few exceptions from the norm, DST in Romania has followed the European Union rules.Valahia.news (27 March 2021) Summer Time in Romania, EU Countries. Valahia.News. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
Time notation The 24-hour clock is used for official purposes, including transport schedules, however in everyday conversation Romanians commonly use the 12-hour clock.Time in Romania. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
IANA time zone database In the IANA time zone database, Romania is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Europe/Bucharest. Data for Romania directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself:Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.
c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offset DST
See also Time in Europe List of time zones by country List of time zones by UTC offset
References
External links Current time in Romania at Time.is