Eastern European Summer Time

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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.

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

• European Summer Time
• UTC+3

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