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Clocks will go back an hour on Sunday, from 4 a.m. to 3 a.m., as Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), or daylight saving time, ends.

The City of Athens will open six air conditioned centers on Thursday and Friday to help elderly residents cope with the imminent heatwave.

The municipality said that the so-called Friendship Centers would be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

By Marialena Spyropoulou

British author Victoria Hislop is a resident of Athens these days. She had been passionately trying to develop her ties with Greece ever since I met her some years ago – at the time her first book, “The Island,” had just been published by Dioptra Publications in Greek. I recall her saying to me back then that she wished she had some kind of Greek roots.

At 3 am on March 30, Bulgarians moved clocks one hour forward to 4 am, switching to Daylight Savings Time.

Clocks are advanced by one hour in spring and moved back in autumn, to make the most of seasonal daylight.

DST is observed in all of the countries of Europe except Iceland, Belarus, and Russia.

Public confidence in Bulgaria's institutions and the political elite has further declined in March, a new nationally representative survey by pollster Alpha Research shows.