Time in Greece

In Greece, the standard time is Eastern European Time (Greek: Ώρα Ανατολικής Ευρώπης; EET; UTC+02:00).^[1] Daylight saving time, which moves one hour ahead to UTC+03:00^[2] is observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October.^[3] 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 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

Time notation

Main article: Date and time notation in Greece

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.^[4]

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

See also

• Time in Europe
• List of time zones by country
• List of time zones by UTC offset