Yekaterinburg Time

{{Short description|Time zone in Russia (UTC+5)}} {{Infobox time zone | initials = YEKT | offset = +05:00 | dst use = none }} {{Time zones of Russia}}

'''Yekaterinburg Time''' ('''YEKT''') is the time zone five hours ahead of UTC (UTC+05:00) and 2 hours ahead of Moscow Time (MSK+2).

In 2011, Russia moved to year-round daylight saving time. Instead of switching between UTC+05:00 in winter and UTC+06:00 in summer, Yekaterinburg time was set to UTC+06:00 until 2014, when it was reset back to UTC+05:00 year-round.<ref name="dstperm">{{cite web|title=Russia: Putin abolishes 'daylight {{sic|saving|s|nolink=y}}' time change|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28423647|website=BBC News|access-date=30 January 2017|date=22 July 2014}}</ref>

The time zone applies to the Ural Federal District, and Bashkortostan, Orenburg Oblast and Perm Krai in the Volga Federal District.<ref name="wtzruss">{{Cite web |title=Time Zones in Russia |url=https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/russia |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=www.timeanddate.com |language=en}}</ref>

==IANA time zone database== In the zone.tab of the IANA time zone database, the zone with the same current offset is:

{| class="wikitable sortable" {{Time zone/database header|dst=no}} |- | {{Time zone/zone.tab cols wiki6|Asia/Yekaterinburg|same dst=merge}} |}

==See also== *Time in Russia

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Time zones Category:Time in Russia