Libya, since 27 October 2013; switched fromCentral European Time, which was used in 2012. Used year-round EET from 1980 to 1981, 1990–1996 and 1998–2012.
The following countries, parts of countries, and territories useEastern European Time during the winter only:
Bulgaria, since 1894, except between 1942 and 1945
Syria used EET until permanently switching to DST in 2022.[5]
Turkey, used EET in the years 1910–1978 and re-used it again in the years 1985–2016.[6]
Sometimes, due to its use onMicrosoft Windows,[7]FLE Standard Time (for Finland, Lithuania, Estonia,[8] or sometimes Finland, Latvia, Estonia[9]) orGTB Standard Time (for Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria) are used to refer to Eastern European Time.
Since political, in addition to purely geographical, criteria are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The EET (UTC+02:00) time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 22°30' E and 37°30' E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a "physical"UTC+02:00 time, are in another time zone; likewise, there are European areas that have gone forUTC+02:00, even though their "physical" time zone is different from that. Following is a list of such anomalies:
Areas outsideUTC+02:00 longitudes using Eastern European Time (UTC+02:00) time
The southwestern coast ofFinland, including the cities ofTurku,Pori, andVaasa; also theÅland islands (of Finnish jurisdiction) – theÅland islands are the westernmost locale applying EET in the whole of Europe
Most of the following countries use winter time year round, so they coincide with Eastern European Summer Time in summer.
Belarus is between 23°11′E and 32°47′E and is thus fully within the physicalUTC+02:00 area, but it usesUTC+03:00 year around.
Practically allEuropean Russia west of Moscow (exceptKaliningrad Oblast); this includes the chunk of land fromMurmansk all the way south toBelgorod, including the cities ofSt. Petersburg,Novgorod, andPskov, to name only a few. (The westernmost point of contiguous Russia, nearLavry,Pskov Oblast, 27°19' E, is the westernmost point in European Russia whereUTC+03:00 is applied.) This also includes the city ofAnapa, at the westernmost tip of theKrasnodar Krai near the entrance to the Sea of Azov, at 37°22' E.
Parts of westernSyria, including the capitalDamascus
The Norway–Russia–Finland "tri-zone" point atMuotkavaara (seeCentral European Time) is surrounded by three different times in winter, two in summer. It had three time zones year-around before 2014.
Two of the four tripoints ofBelarus and the tripoint of theKaliningrad Region are surrounded by three different times in winter.
