Time in Ukraine

Time in Europe:
light blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
blue Western European Time / Greenwich Mean Time (UTC)
Western European Summer Time (UTC+1)
red Central European Time (UTC+1)
Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
yellow Eastern European Time / Kaliningrad Time (UTC+2)
golden Eastern European Time (UTC+2)
Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)
light green Further-eastern European Time (UTC+3)
Light colours indicate where standard time is observed all year; dark colours indicate where a summer time is observed.
This map shows the difference between legal time and local mean time in Europe during the winter. Most of Western Europe and European Russia is significantly ahead of local solar time.
Color Legal time vs local mean time
1 h ± 30 m behind
0 h ± 30 m
1 h ± 30 m ahead
2 h ± 30 m ahead

Time in Ukraine is defined as UTC+02:00 and in summer as UTC+03:00. Locally it is referred to as the Kiev Time (Ukrainian: Київський час, Kyivskyi chas) and is part of the Eastern European Time. The change for the summer time take place in the last week of March at 03:00 when the time changes an hour ahead and the last week of October at 04:00 when the time changes an hour back; this way the clocks in Ukraine are 1 hour ahead of those in central Europe at all times.

Geographical description

The territory of Ukraine in Europe stretches 17°57' along a longitude or about 1.2 hours. Almost 95% of its territory is located in the Eastern European Time Zone with exceptions of its western and eastern extremities. Small portion of Zakarpattia Oblast is located in the Central European Time Zone, while Luhansk Oblast, most of Donetsk Oblast, and part of Kharkiv Oblast are geographically located in the Further-eastern European Time Zone.

History

Daylight saving time in Ukraine was introduced in the early 1980s.[1][2] On 20 September 2011 the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) canceled the return to from Eastern European Summer Time to Eastern European Time.[1][3] On 18 October 2011 the Parliament abolished these plans.[2][4]

IANA time zone database

The IANA time zone database contains four zones for Ukraine in the file zone.tab:

References

  1. 1 2 Ukraine cancels use of daylight saving time, Kyiv Post (20 September 2011)
  2. 1 2 Ukraine to return to standard time on Oct. 30 (updated), Kyiv Post (18 October 2011)
  3. ↑ Deputies cancelled the winter time, WorldTimeZone.com (20 September 2011)
  4. ↑ Ukraine cancels plan to drop winter time change, Kyiv Post (18 October 2011)
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