Identifier for a time offset from UTC of +3
UTC+03:00
is an identifier for a
time offset from UTC
of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours later than the
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
.
Following the
ISO 8601
standard, a time with this offset would be written as, for example, 2019-02-08T23:36:06+03:00.
As standard time (year-round)
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Principal cities:
Istanbul
,
Moscow
,
Saint Petersburg
,
Doha
,
Riyadh
,
Baghdad
,
Nairobi
,
Dire Dawa
,
Addis Ababa
,
Manama
,
Sanaa
,
Aden
,
Minsk
,
Kuwait City
,
Asmara
,
Antananarivo
,
Kampala
,
Amman
,
Damascus
Africa
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East Africa
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- Comoros
- Djibouti
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- France
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Somalia
- Somaliland
- South Africa
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- Tanzania
- Uganda
Antarctica
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Asia
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Arabia Standard Time
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For other time zones with the abbreviation AST, see
AST (time)
.
Arabia Standard Time, or AST (indicated by
KSA
on some Arabic TV stations), is used by some of the countries in the
Middle East
. As this time zone is predominantly in the equatorial region, there is no significant change in day length throughout the year, so daylight saving time is not observed. Between 1982 and 2007, Iraq observed
Arabia Daylight Time
(UTC+04:00) but the government abolished DST in March 2008.
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[6]
Arabia Standard Time is used by the following countries:
- Bahrain
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Yemen
Europe
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Most of
European Russia
, including
Moscow
,
Saint Petersburg
,
Rostov-on-Don
,
Novaya Zemlya
,
Franz Josef Land
. From October 26, 2014 Moscow and most other parts of European Russia started using UTC+03:00 again, year-round.
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Also on September 7, 2016, Turkey started using UTC+03:00 year-round.
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Besides the names mentioned above, the name "Eastern Europe Forward Time"' (EEFT) is sometimes used.
Caucasus region
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As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only)
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Principal cities:
Kyiv
,
Bucharest
,
Athens
,
Jerusalem
,
Sofia
Europe
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- Bulgaria
- Cyprus
- Estonia
- Finland
- Greece
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Moldova
- Romania
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
Asia
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Africa
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Discrepancies between official UTC+03:00 and geographical UTC+03:00
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Areas in UTC+03:00 longitudes using other time zones
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Using
UTC+04:00
:
- Caucasus
region:
- Georgia, excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Russia, with parts of its territories:
- Astrakhan, Samara, Saratov and Ulyanovsk (with an exception of the very east)
- Western half of Udmurtia
- United Arab Emirates
- Seychelles
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Using
UTC+03:30
:
- Iran
- The western part, including
Tehran
Using
UTC+02:00
:
- Ukraine (standard time)
- The easternmost part, including
Luhansk
(the territories under Ukrainian control)
- Sudan
- The very easternmost part in the country
- Mozambique
Areas outside UTC+03:00 longitudes using UTC+03:00 time
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Areas between 67°30′ E and 82°30′ E ("physical"
UTC+05:00
)
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Areas between 52°30' E and 67°30' E ("physical" UTC+04:00)
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- Yemen
- Saudi Arabia
- Russia
Areas between 22°30' E and 37°30' E ("physical" UTC+02:00)
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- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Kenya
- The western part, including nation's capital
Nairobi
- Ethiopia
- Saudi Arabia
- The northwesternmost part, including
Tabuk
- Turkey
- Most parts of the country, including
Istanbul
and nation's capital
Ankara
- Ukraine
- Belarus
- Russia
Notes
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- The westernmost point at UTC+03:00 is the westernmost point of contiguous Russia, near
Lavry
,
Pskov Oblast
(27°19' E). The
time zone
employed there (corresponding to
45°E
) is 17°41' E of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 11 minutes ahead of
physical time
, making for the largest overall discrepancy between time used and physical time for UTC+03:00.
- The easternmost point at UTC+03:00 is
Cape Zhelaniya
,
Severny Island
,
Novaya Zemlya
, Russia (69°06' E). The time zone employed there (corresponding to
45°E
) is 24°06' W of physical time, i.e. roughly 1 hour and 36 minutes behind physical time, making for the largest discrepancy between time used and physical time for UTC+03:00.
- On February 8, 2011,
Russian president
Dmitry Medvedev
issued a decree cancelling
daylight saving time
in Russia. Under the decree, all clocks in Russia advanced by 1 hour on March 27, 2011, but did not change back the following October, effectively making Kaliningrad Time UTC+03:00 permanently, and Moscow Time
UTC+04:00
permanently. This proved unpopular because of the dark mornings, children walking to school and people going to work in complete darkness. On October 26, 2014, Russia permanently returned to
standard time
by setting the clocks back by 1 hour effectively making Kaliningrad Time
UTC+02:00
permanently and Moscow Time UTC+03:00 permanently.
- Ukraine had UTC+02:00 plus regularly
EEST
from 1990 till 2011 (in years 1981?1990 Moscow Summer Time) until the
Ukrainian parliament
added 1 hour "on the territory of Ukraine from March 27, 2011" and canceled daylight saving time on September 20, 2011,
de facto
making EEST (UTC+03:00) the new standard time.
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After strong criticism from the mass media, on 18 October 2011 the Ukrainian parliament cancelled its previous decision.
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See also
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References
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