Time in Greece

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 / Samara Time (UTC+4)
▉▉▉▉ Pale hues: Standard time observed all year
  ▉▉▉   Dark hues: Daylight saving time

In Greece, the standard time is Eastern European Time (Greek: Ώρα Ανατολικής Ευρώπης; EET; UTC+02:00). 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. Greece adopted EET in 1916; before that, Athens mean time (1 hour, 34 minutes, and 52 seconds ahead of GMT) was observed.[citation needed]

Time notation

The 12-hour notation is used in verbal communication, but the 24-hour format is also used along with the 12-hour notation in writing. The minutes are usually written with two digits; the hour numbers are written with or without a leading zero.[citation needed]

IANA time zone database

In the IANA time zone database, Greece is given the zone Europe/Athens.

c.c.* coordinates* TZ* Comments UTC offsetDST
GR+3758+02343Europe/Athens+02:00+03:00

See also

References

  1. ↑ Time in Greece. TimeAndDate.com. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Time in Greece. Lonely Planet. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  3. ↑ Greece at The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Retrieved 3 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Europe (2020 edition) at the tz database. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Retrieved 20 May 2021.