Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1980

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often incorrectly referred to as “daylight savings time”. In some countries, it is also called “summer time”. When DST is not observed, it is called standard time, normal time or winter time.

This list displays a brief (but not complete) overview showing the countries and territories which observed DST during the first half of 1980.

Current country/territory names, rather than historic country names are displayed, so the list could contain countries that did not exist at the time.

Also, please see the page for the second half of 1980 or the overview over start and end times for 1980 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 24 Sun	Costa Rica (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 2 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:30 pm (Back)
Mar 2 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (All locations which are observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 2 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 8 Sat	Chad (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 8 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 8:00 pm (Back)
Mar 9 Sun	Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Cuba (All locations) Nicaragua (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 16 Sun	Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Fri	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Portugal (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Mon	Malta (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Tue	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 1 Tue	Greece (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 5 Sat	Bulgaria (All locations) Romania (All locations)	11:00 pm → 12:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Austria (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Martinique (All locations) Spain (Some locations observing DST)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Poland (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Belgium (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations which are observing DST) Greenland (All locations which are observing DST) Italy (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Spain (Most locations observing DST) Sweden (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 20 Sun	Barbados (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 25 Fri	Algeria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 27 Sun	South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 27 Sun	United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 2:00 am (No Change)
Apr 27 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are observing DST) Jamaica (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Thu	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 3 Sat	Albania (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Jun 1 Sun	Costa Rica (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Jun 23 Mon	Nicaragua (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
1978	first half of 1978	second half of 1978
1979	first half of 1979	second half of 1979
1980	first half of 1980	second half of 1980
1981	first half of 1981	second half of 1981
1982	first half of 1982	second half of 1982

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1980

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