Time in Greece


In Greece, the standard time is Eastern European Time. 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 was observed.

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.

IANA time zone database

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