Daylight Saving Time–second half of 1981
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Daylight saving time is also called summer time or daylight savings 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 over which countries and territories that observed DST during second half of 19811981.
Current country/territory names, rather than historic country names are displayed, so the list could contain countries that did not exist at the time.
This table is sorted by UTC time, in the order the changes occur.
Click on the example links for more details on the clock change.
Also see the page for first half of 1981 or the overview over start and end times for 1981 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Sep 26 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia |
| Sep 26 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Albania - All locations | Tirana |
| Sep 26 at 23:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Bulgaria - All locations | Sofia |
| Sep 27 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Poland - All locations | Warsaw |
| Sep 27 at 00:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Finland - All locations | Helsinki Rovaniemi |
| Romania - All locations | Bucharest | ||||
| Sep 27 at 01:00:00 | Sat 11:00 PM | back to | Sat 10:00 PM | Greenland - Most of locations observing DST | Danmarkshavn Nuuk |
| Sep 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Sat-Sun | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Ittoqqortoormiit |
| Sep 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Färöer - All locations | Tórshavn(Faroe Islands) |
| Portugal - Most locations | Lisbon | ||||
| Spain - Some of locations observing DST | Las Palmas(Canary Islands) | ||||
| Sep 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Austria - All locations | Vienna(Vienna) |
| Belgium - All locations | Brussels | ||||
| Czech Republic - All locations | Prague | ||||
| Denmark - All locations | Copenhagen | ||||
| France - All of locations observing DST | Paris | ||||
| Germany - All locations | Berlin(Berlin) Frankfurt(Hesse) | ||||
| Holy See (Vatican City) - All locations | Vatican City | ||||
| Hungary - All locations | Budapest | ||||
| Italy - All locations | Milan Rome | ||||
| Liechtenstein - All locations | Vaduz | ||||
| Luxembourg - All locations | Luxembourg | ||||
| Malta - All locations | Valletta | ||||
| Monaco - All locations | Monaco | ||||
| Netherlands - All of locations observing DST | Amsterdam | ||||
| Norway - All locations | Hammerfest Longyearbyen(Svalbard) Oslo | ||||
| San Marino - All locations | San Marino | ||||
| Slovakia - All locations | Bratislava | ||||
| Spain - Most of locations observing DST | Barcelona(Barcelona) Madrid Palma(Majorca) | ||||
| Sweden - All locations | Stockholm | ||||
| Switzerland - All locations | Bern(Bern) Geneva(Geneva) Zürich(Zurich) | ||||
| Sep 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | back to | Sun 3:00 AM | Greece - All locations | Athens |
| Sep 27 at 02:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Portugal - Some locations | Azores |
| Sep 30 at 10:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Anadyr |
| Sep 30 at 11:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
| Sep 30 at 12:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Magadan Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Sep 30 at 13:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vladivostok |
| Sep 30 at 14:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Sep 30 at 15:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Irkutsk |
| Sep 30 at 16:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk Norilsk Novosibirsk |
| Sep 30 at 17:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Kazakhstan - Most of locations observing DST | Almaty Astana |
| Kyrgyzstan - All locations | Bishkek | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Omsk | ||||
| Tajikistan - All locations | Dushanbe | ||||
| Uzbekistan - Some locations | Tashkent | ||||
| Sep 30 at 18:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Russia - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg |
| Turkmenistan - All locations | Ashgabat | ||||
| Sep 30 at 18:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | no change | Midnight Wed-Thu | Kazakhstan - Some of locations observing DST | Aqtobe Oral |
| Uzbekistan - Most locations | Samarkand | ||||
| Sep 30 at 19:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku | ||||
| Georgia - All locations | Tbilisi | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Sep 30 at 20:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Belarus - All locations | Minsk |
| Estonia - All locations | Tallinn | ||||
| Latvia - All locations | Riga | ||||
| Lithuania - All locations | Vilnius | ||||
| Moldova - All locations | Chisinau | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Belushya Guba Kaliningrad Kazan Moscow Murmansk Novgorod Saint-Petersburg | ||||
| Ukraine - All locations | Kyiv Odesa | ||||
| Oct 1 at 00:00:00 | Thu 3:00 AM | back to | Thu 2:00 AM | Egypt - All locations | Cairo |
| Oct 1 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | forward to | Thu 1:00 AM | Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion |
| Oct 11 at 04:00:00 | Sat 9:00 PM | forward to | Sat 10:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Oct 11 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Oct 11 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
| Oct 11 at 20:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | back to | Sun 11:00 PM | Turkey - All locations | Ankara Istanbul |
| Oct 14 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | back to | Wed 11:00 PM | Republic of South Sudan - All locations | Juba |
| Sudan - All locations | Khartoum | ||||
| Oct 24 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Antarctica - Some of locations observing DST | South Pole |
| New Zealand - Most locations | Auckland Wellington | ||||
| Oct 24 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:45 AM | forward to | Sun 3:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Oct 24 at 15:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Lord Howe Island(Lord Howe Island) |
| Oct 24 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Most of locations observing DST | Canberra(Australian Capital Territory) Hobart(Tasmania) Melbourne(Victoria) Sydney(New South Wales) |
| Oct 24 at 16:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide(South Australia) |
| Oct 25 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Ireland - All locations | Dublin |
| Isle of Man - All locations | Douglas | ||||
| United Kingdom - All locations | Belfast(Northern Ireland) Cardiff(Wales) Glasgow(Scotland) London(England) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 04:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's(Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Oct 25 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Bermuda - All locations | Hamilton |
| Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Halifax(Nova Scotia) Happy Valley-Goose Bay(Newfoundland and Labrador) Saint John(New Brunswick) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 06:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Montreal(Quebec) Ottawa(Ontario) Pond Inlet(Nunavut Territory) Québec(Quebec) Toronto(Ontario) |
| Jamaica - All locations | Kingston | ||||
| The Bahamas - All locations | Nassau | ||||
| Turks and Caicos Islands - All locations | Cockburn Town | ||||
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Atlanta(Georgia) Augusta(Maine) Baltimore(Maryland) Boston(Massachusetts) Charleston(West Virginia) Columbia(South Carolina) Columbus(Ohio) Concord(New Hampshire) Detroit(Michigan) Hartford(Connecticut) Louisville(Kentucky) Miami(Florida) Montpelier(Vermont) New York(New York) Philadelphia(Pennsylvania) Raleigh(North Carolina) Richmond(Virginia) Washington DC(District of Columbia) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 07:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Baker Lake(Nunavut Territory) Resolute(Nunavut Territory) |
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Austin(Texas) Bismarck(North Dakota) Chicago(Illinois) Dallas(Texas) Des Moines(Iowa) Houston(Texas) Jackson(Mississippi) Kansas City(Missouri) Lincoln(Nebraska) Little Rock(Arkansas) Madison(Wisconsin) Milwaukee(Wisconsin) Minneapolis(Minnesota) Montgomery(Alabama) Nashville(Tennessee) New Orleans(Louisiana) Oklahoma City(Oklahoma) Sioux Falls(South Dakota) St. Louis(Missouri) St. Paul(Minnesota) Topeka(Kansas) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 08:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Calgary(Alberta) Edmonton(Alberta) Inuvik(Northwest Territories) Yellowknife(Northwest Territories) |
| Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Ciudad Juárez(Chihuahua) | ||||
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Albuquerque(New Mexico) Billings(Montana) Boise(Idaho) Cheyenne(Wyoming) Denver(Colorado) Rapid City(South Dakota) Salt Lake City(Utah) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 08:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Winnipeg(Manitoba) |
| Oct 25 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Vancouver(British Columbia) Whitehorse(Yukon Territory) |
| Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mexicali(Baja California) Tijuana(Baja California) | ||||
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Las Vegas(Nevada) Los Angeles(California) Portland(Oregon) Sacramento(California) Salem(Oregon) San Diego(California) San Francisco(California) San Jose(California) Seattle(Washington) | ||||
| Oct 25 at 10:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 12:30 AM | Cook Islands - All locations | Rarotonga |
| Oct 25 at 10:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Yakutat(Alaska) |
| Oct 25 at 11:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Anchorage(Alaska) Fairbanks(Alaska) Unalaska(Alaska) |
| Oct 25 at 12:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak(Alaska) |
Daylight Saving Time for other years
| Yearly overview | January–June | July–December |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1983 | first half of 1983 | second half of 1983 |
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