24-hour clock

Supermarkets will operate as usual on Christmas Eve, Tuesday 24 December 2024, with their regular hours, giving consumers the chance to do their last-minute shopping for the holiday table.

Specifically, the operating hours for the major supermarket chains are as follows:

The festive opening hours have been in force for a few days now, with shops open again today, Sunday 15 December, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Shopping malls and department stores, such as The Mall Athens, Golden Hall, Designer Outlet Athens, Attica, and others, will remain open from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

The country faces a standstill due to the general strike called by GSEE (General Confederation of Greek Workers) and ADEDY (Civil Servants’ Confederation).

On the last Sunday in October, we moved the clock's arrows one hour back to go to the winter time. In fact, it is the accepted astronomical time, while summer time is extraordinary.

We change the clocks so that we can make the most of daylight to coincide with the active hours of the day, explains Severina Yorgova from the Regional History Museum in Shumen.

Thursday's general strike, called last week by the country's two main umbrella labor unions to protest ongoing austerity, will disrupt public transport as well as halting most government and state services, Ekathimerini reported.

Commuters are to face a difficult day due to restricted services on public transport.

Commuters in Athens will face a difficult day on Thursday as staff on public transport stage work stoppages to coincide with a 24-hour strike called by the country's two main umbrella labor unions. 

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.

There will be no metro, ISAP electric railway or tram services in Athens from noon to 4 p.m. on Wednesday due to a work stoppage by employees who are protesting the induction of public transport companies into a fund of state assets slated for privatization and have vowed to continue their action.