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) Principal cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Doha, Riyadh, Baghdad, Nairobi, Dire Dawa, Addis Ababa, Manama, Sana'a, Aden, Minsk, Kuwait City, Asmara, Antananarivo, Kampala, Amman, Damascus Africa East Africa Comoros Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia France French Southern and Antarctic Lands Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean Bassas da India, Europa Island and Juan de Nova Island Mayotte Kenya Madagascar Somalia Somaliland (disputed territory) South Africa Prince Edward Islands Tanzania Uganda Antarctica Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica Japan Showa Station Asia Arabia Standard 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. Arabia Standard Time is used by the following countries: Bahrain Iraq Jordan Kuwait Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria Yemen Europe 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. Also on September 7, 2016, Turkey started using UTC+03:00 year-round. Besides the names mentioned above, the name "Eastern Europe Forward Time"' (EEFT) is sometimes used. Belarus Russia – Moscow Time Central Federal District North Caucasian Federal District Northwestern Federal District Except Kaliningrad Oblast Southern Federal District Except Astrakhan Oblast Volga Federal District Except Samara Oblast, Saratov Oblast, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai Turkey – Time in Turkey Ukraine Crimea (Crimea Peninsula) or Republic of Crimea, part of (administered by Russia) Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions Caucasus region Georgia (while Georgia remains within UTC+04:00, its two breakaway regions have opted to use UTC+03:00) this includes: Abkhazia South Ossetia As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer only) Principal cities: Kyiv, Bucharest, Athens, Jerusalem, Sofia Europe Bulgaria Cyprus Northern Cyprus Estonia Finland Åland Greece Latvia Lithuania Moldova Transnistria Romania Ukraine Except Crimea, part