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, they use Eastern European Time (UTC+2).
[edit] 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.