12-hour clock

For digital timepieces, doing many things is as simple as writing a few lines of code, but reproducing those functions mechanically in the world of haute chronologie is something else entirely.

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.

State hospital doctors are to stage a four-hour work stoppage from noon on Wednesday to protest plans to tighten control of public hospital finance.

The protest is being timed to coincide with a vote in Parliament on a government bill foreseeing the creation of a company that will henceforth manage hospital finances.

Parts of central Thessaloniki will be left without water from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, August 6, the local water company (EYATH) said on Saturday.

EYATH said that the interruption would occur because it is laying new pipes.