Time in Lebanon is given by Eastern European Time (EET) (UTC+02:00) or Eastern European Summer Time (EEST) (UTC+03:00) during the summer.
On 23 March 2023, two days before the scheduled switch to Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), Lebanon's government postponed the change from 25 March to 20 April. (This came within days of a DST postponement also being announced in Palestine.) No official explanation was given, but local media suggested the change was made to avoid disruption during the month of Ramadan, during which some Muslims fast from sunrise till sunset. Due to the lateness of the announcement, smart devices with "automatic time" enabled changed the time on the originally scheduled date of 25 March, and some major media outlets, including MTV, LBCI and OTV, announced that they will not abide by the decision. Different religious communities in Lebanon observed the shift independently. As a result, some places or regions in Lebanon temporarily used different time zones, causing mass confusion.[citation needed] On 27 March, Lebanon's prime minister Najib Mikati announced that EEST would be used starting at midnight of 29 March.
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