Eastern European Summer Time
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| blue | Western European Time (UTC+0) Western European Summer Time (UTC+1) |
| red | Central European Time (UTC+1) Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) |
| yellow | Eastern European Time (UTC+2) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) |
| green | Moscow Time (UTC+3) Moscow Summer Time (UTC+4) |
Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) is one of the names of UTC+3 time zone, 3 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used as a summer daylight saving time in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries. During the winter, the Eastern European Time (UTC+2) is used.
Since 1996 European Summer Time has been observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.[1]
Usage
The following countries and territories use Eastern European Summer Time during the summer:
- Belarus, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
- Bulgaria, regularly since 1979
- Cyprus, regularly since 1979
- Egypt, regularly before 1970
- Estonia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
- Finland, regularly since 1981
- Greece, regularly since 1975
- Israel, regularly since 1948
- Jordan, since 1985
- Latvia, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989
- Lebanon, since 1984
- Lithuania, in years 1981–88 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1989, in years 1998 was changed to Central European Summer Time, but returned to EEST since 2003
- Moldova, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
- Romania, regularly since 1979
- Russia (Kaliningrad), in years 1981–90 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1991
- Syria, since 1983
- Turkey, in years 1970-78 EEST, in years 1979–83 as in Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1985
- Ukraine, in years 1981–89 Moscow Summer Time, regularly EEST since 1992
In one year 1991 EEST was used also in Moscow and Samara time zones of Russia.
See also
References
- ^ Joseph Myers (2009-07-17). "History of legal time in Britain". http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/british-time/. Retrieved 2009-10-11.
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