Eastern European Time

Eastern European Time (EET) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. It is used in some European, North African, and Middle Eastern countries. Most of them also use Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3) as a summer daylight saving time.

Where it is used change

Two countries uses Eastern European Time all the year:

Libya
Egypt

The following countries, parts of countries, and territories use Eastern European Time during the winter only:

Bulgaria, since 1894
Cyprus, (Northern Cyprus abolished daylight saving and has switched to Moscow Time all year long in September 2016, but returned to EET in October 2017)
Estonia, in years 1921-40 and since 1989
Finland, since 1921
Greece, since 1916
Israel, since 1948
Jordan
Latvia, in years 1926-40 and since 1989
Lebanon
Lithuania, in 1920 and since 1989
Moldova, in years 1924-40 and since 1991
Palestinian territories
Romania, since 1931
Syria
Ukraine, in years 1924-30 and since 1990

Moscow used EET between 1922-30 and 1991-92. In Poland this time was used between 1918-22. Turkey, used EET between 1910-2016 except for the years 1978-85 and has switched to Moscow Time all year long.

In time of World War II MET (CET) was used in eastern countries, occupied by Germany.

Major metropolitan areas change

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Blue	Western European Time (UTC±00:00) Western European Summer Time (UTC+01:00)
Light Blue	Western European Time (UTC±00:00)
Red	Central European Time (UTC+01:00) Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)
Ochre	Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+03:00)
Yellow	Kaliningrad Time (UTC+02:00)
Green	Moscow Time / Turkey Time (UTC+03:00)