Eastern European Time
Time zone
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  Eastern European Time
UTC offset
EETUTC+02:00
EESTUTC+03:00
Current time
10:34, 23 March 2023 EET [refresh]
Observance of DST
DST is observed throughout this time zone.
Time in Europe:      Light Blue   Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)       Blue   Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)       Western European Summer Time / British Summer Time / Irish Standard Time (UTC+1)       Red   Central European Time (UTC+1)       Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)       Yellow   Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)       Ochre   Eastern European Time (UTC+2)       Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)       Green   Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+3)       Turquoise   Armenia Time / Azerbaijan Time / Georgia Time (UTC+4)    ▉▉▉▉ Pale colours: Standard time observed all year▉▉▉ Dark colours: Summer time observed
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Time zones of Africa:
 UTC-01:00  Cape Verde Time[a]
 UTC±00:00  Greenwich Mean Time
 UTC+01:00 
 UTC+02:00 
 UTC+03:00  East Africa Time
 UTC+04:00 
a The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.
b Mauritius and the Seychelles are to the east and north-east of Madagascar respectively.
Time in the Middle East         UTC+02:00  Egypt Standard Time        UTC+02:00UTC+03:00  Eastern European Time /Israel Standard Time /Eastern European Summer Time /Israel Summer Time        UTC+03:00  Arabia Standard Time /Turkey Time        UTC+03:30  Iran Standard Time        UTC+04:00  Persian Gulf Standard Time  ▉▉▉▉ Standard time observed all year▉ Daylight saving time observed

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+02:00 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. The zone uses daylight saving time, so that it uses UTC+03:00 during the summer.

A number of African countries use UTC+02:00 all year long, where it is called Central Africa Time (CAT),[1] although Egypt and Libya also use the term Eastern European Time.[2]

The most populous city in the Eastern European Time zone is Cairo, with the most populous EET city in Europe being Athens.

Usage

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time all year round:

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time during the winter only:

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories used Eastern European Time in the past:

Sometimes, due to its use on Microsoft Windows,[6] FLE Standard Time (for Finland, Lithuania, Estonia,[7] or sometimes Finland, Latvia, Estonia[8]) or GTB Standard Time (for Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) are used to refer to Eastern European Time.

Anomalies

Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The EET (UTC+02:00) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22°30' E and 37°30' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a "physical" UTC+02:00 time, are in another time zone; likewise, there are European areas that have gone for UTC+02:00, even though their "physical" time zone is different from that. Following is a list of such anomalies:

Areas located outside UTC+02:00 longitudes using Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) time

European winter
European winter
Colour Legal time vs local mean time
1 h ± 30 m behind
0 h ± 30 m
1 h ± 30 m ahead
2 h ± 30 m ahead
3 h ± 30 m ahead

Areas west of 22°30' E ("physical" UTC+01:00) that use UTC+02:00

Areas east of 37°30' E ("physical" UTC+03:00) that use UTC+02:00

Areas located within UTC+02:00 longitudes (22°30' E – 37°30' E) using other time zones

Areas that use UTC+01:00

These areas have sunrises and sunsets at least half an hour earlier than places on the UTC+01:00 meridian.

Areas that use UTC+03:00

Tripoints and borders between zones

Major metropolitan areas

Winter only

Year round

References

  1. ^ "CAT – Central Africa Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  2. ^ "EET – Eastern European Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)". www.timeanddate.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  3. ^ Ukraine to return to standard time on Oct. 30 (updated) Archived October 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Eternal Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Belarus".
  5. ^ "Time Zone & Clock Changes in Istanbul, Turkey". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  6. ^ "TimeZone". Microsoft.
  7. ^ "FLE". TheFreeDictionary.com.
  8. ^ "Finland Latvia Estonia Time". TheFreeDictionary.com.