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Time in Turkey
Time zone (UTC+3)

In Turkey, time is given by UTC+03:00 year-round. This time is also called Turkey Time (TRT). The time at most is the same as in the Moscow Time and Arabia Standard Time zones. TRT was adopted by the Turkish Government on 8 September 2016. It was also in use in Northern Cyprus until it reverted to Eastern European Time (EET) in October 2017.

During some seasons (March–October), the TRT coincides with the Eastern European Summer Time (the daylight-saving version of the Eastern European Time). The IANA time zone identifier for Turkey is Europe/Istanbul.

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History

Until 1927, "Turkish time" (or alla turca time or ezânî time) referred to the system of setting the clocks to 12:00 midnight at sunset.5 This necessitated adjusting the clocks daily, although tower clocks were only reset two or three times a week,6 and the precise time varied from one location to another depending on latitude and longitude.7

The day was divided into two 12-hour periods, with the second 12:00 occurring at a "theoretical sunrise."89 In practice, the Turkish railroads used both Turkish time (for public schedules) and eastern European time (for actually scheduling the trains), and government telegraph lines used St. Sophia time (i.e., Paris time + 1:47:32) for international telegrams.10

From 1927 to 2016, Turkey used Eastern European Time (EET) in the winter (UTC+02:00) and Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) during the summer.11 The date for transition between standard time and daylight saving time generally followed EU rules, but had variations in some years.

In September 2016, the decision to stay on UTC+03:00 (summer time) year-round was enacted.12 However, in October 2017, the Turkish government announced that starting the next year, on 28 October 2018, the country would revert to EET and EEST,13 but this sudden decision was reversed in November 2017.14 In October 2018, a presidential decree announced that the UTC+03:00 would remain the year-round permanent time zone for the country.15

Today, during the warmer part of the year (March–October), TRT time is the same as the EEST (Eastern European Summer Time), while in the remainder of the year it is an hour ahead of EET (Eastern European Time).

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Notes

References

  1. Turkish: Türkiye Saati (TSI) /wiki/Turkish_language ↩

  2. "Time in Istanbul, Turkey". https://calendarhours.com/current-time-istanbul/ ↩

  3. "Saatler geri alınıyor!". Yeni Düzen. 17 October 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2017. http://www.yeniduzen.com/saatler-geri-aliniyor-95079h.htm ↩

  4. "Time in Turkey". https://calendarhours.com/current-time-turkey/ ↩

  5. Atilla Bir; Șinasi Acar; Mustafa Kaçar (2011). "The Clockmaker Family Meyer and Their Watch Keeping the alla turca Time". In Günergun, Feza; Raina, Dhruv (eds.). Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 126. ↩

  6. "The Present Status of the Use of Standard Time". Publications of the United States Naval Observatory. 4 (2): G23. 1906. ↩

  7. Atilla Bir; Șinasi Acar; Mustafa Kaçar (2011). "The Clockmaker Family Meyer and Their Watch Keeping the alla turca Time". In Günergun, Feza; Raina, Dhruv (eds.). Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 126. ↩

  8. Atilla Bir; Șinasi Acar; Mustafa Kaçar (2011). "The Clockmaker Family Meyer and Their Watch Keeping the alla turca Time". In Günergun, Feza; Raina, Dhruv (eds.). Science between Europe and Asia: Historical Studies on the Transmission, Adoption and Adaptation of Knowledge. Dordrecht: Springer. p. 126. ↩

  9. "The Present Status of the Use of Standard Time". Publications of the United States Naval Observatory. 4 (2): G23. 1906. ↩

  10. "The Present Status of the Use of Standard Time". Publications of the United States Naval Observatory. 4 (2): G23. 1906. ↩

  11. "Time Zones – Istanbul". timeanddate.com. Retrieved 3 August 2016. http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/turkey/istanbul ↩

  12. Anne Buckle (8 September 2016). "Turkey Stays on Daylight Saving Time for Good". timeanddate.com. http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/turkey-scraps-dst-2016.html ↩

  13. "Türkiye'de saatler ne zaman ileri alınacak?". www.haberturk.com (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 March 2018. http://www.haberturk.com/turkiye-de-saat-kac-saatler-ne-zaman-ileri-geri-alinacak-yaz-saati-kis-saati-uygulamasi-nedir-1890954 ↩

  14. "Yaz saati uygulaması sürekli hale geldi". www.hurriyet.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 12 June 2018. http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/son-dakika-yaz-saati-uygulamasi-surekli-hale-geldi-40637482 ↩

  15. "Resmi Gazete'de yayımlandı: Flaş yaz saati kararı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2 October 2018. Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181002021436/http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/gundem/son-dakika-resmi-gazetede-yayimlandi-flas-yaz-saati-karari-40973809 ↩