EET(Eastern European Time)
Eastern European Time (EET) is the standard time of south-eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, two hours ahead of UTC.
- UTC offset
- UTC+02:00
- Abbreviation
- EET
- Full name
- Eastern European Time
- Military letter
- Bravo (B)
- Regions
- South-eastern Europe, Baltic states, North-east Africa
- IANA zones
- Europe/Athens, Europe/Helsinki, Europe/Bucharest, Europe/Kyiv, Africa/Cairo
- Converter model
- Fixed offset.
What EET means
EET is the standard time of Greece, Finland, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine and the Baltic states, and the same offset is used in Egypt and the Levant.
- South Africa uses the same offset but calls it South Africa Standard Time (SAST), not EET.
Cities on this offset
These cities keep UTC+02:00 as their standard offset:
- Athens
- Helsinki
- Bucharest
- Kyiv
- Cairo
Zones with the same offset
- IST — Israel Standard Time (UTC+02:00)
History
Eastern European Time was adopted country by country in the early twentieth century as the eastern counterpart to the central European bloc.