Athens operates on Eastern European Time (EET) during winter months, which is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+2). During daylight saving time, observed from the last Sunday in March to the last Sunday in October, Athens switches to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), which is UTC+3.
Athens is the capital of Greece and one of the world's oldest cities. Greece uses the same timezone as Bulgaria, Romania, Finland, and the Baltic states. Athens is 7 hours ahead of New York, 2 hours ahead of London, and 1 hour ahead of Paris and Berlin.
Athens is named after Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and has been continuously inhabited for over 3,400 years. The ancient Greeks used water clocks (clepsydra) and sundials to tell time. The Antikythera mechanism, found in a Greek shipwreck, is considered the world's first analog computer and was used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses.