Time in Greece
# Time in Greece

In Greece, the standard time is Eastern European Time (Greek: Ώρα Ανατολικής Ευρώπης; EET; UTC+02:00). 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.

## 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.

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