Daylight Saving Time–first half of 1983
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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 first half of 19831983.
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 second half of 1983 or the overview over start and end times for 1983 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Feb 12 at 05:00:00 | Midnight Fri-Sat | back to | Fri 11:00 PM | Belize - All locations | Belmopan |
| Mar 5 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Antarctica - Some of locations observing DST | South Pole |
| New Zealand - Most locations | Auckland Wellington | ||||
| Mar 5 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:45 AM | back to | Sun 2:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Mar 5 at 14:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Lord Howe Island(Lord Howe Island) |
| Mar 5 at 16:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Canberra(Australian Capital Territory) Melbourne(Victoria) Sydney(New South Wales) |
| Mar 5 at 16:30:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide(South Australia) |
| Mar 6 at 09:30:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:30 PM | Cook Islands - All locations | Rarotonga |
| Mar 13 at 03:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | back to | Sat 9:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Mar 13 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
| Mar 19 at 21:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mauritius - All locations | Port Louis |
| Mar 26 at 16:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Hobart(Tasmania) |
| Mar 26 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia |
| Mar 27 at 00:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:00 AM | Poland - All locations | Warsaw |
| Mar 27 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Bulgaria - All locations | Sofia |
| Romania - All locations | Bucharest | ||||
| Mar 27 at 01:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Greenland - Most of locations observing DST | Danmarkshavn Nuuk |
| Mar 27 at 01:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Ittoqqortoormiit |
| Mar 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:00 AM | Färöer - All locations | Tórshavn(Faroe Islands) |
| Ireland - All locations | Dublin | ||||
| Isle of Man - All locations | Douglas | ||||
| Spain - Some of locations observing DST | Las Palmas(Canary Islands) | ||||
| United Kingdom - All locations | Belfast(Northern Ireland) Cardiff(Wales) Glasgow(Scotland) London(England) | ||||
| Mar 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Austria - All locations | Vienna |
| Belgium - All locations | Brussels | ||||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina - All locations | Sarajevo | ||||
| Croatia - All locations | Zagreb | ||||
| Czech Republic - All locations | Prague | ||||
| Denmark - All locations | Copenhagen | ||||
| France - All of locations observing DST | Paris | ||||
| Germany - All locations | Berlin(Berlin) Frankfurt(Hesse) | ||||
| Gibraltar - All locations | Gibraltar | ||||
| Holy See (Vatican City) - All locations | Vatican City | ||||
| Hungary - All locations | Budapest | ||||
| Italy - All locations | Milan Rome | ||||
| Kosovo - All locations | Pristina | ||||
| Liechtenstein - All locations | Vaduz | ||||
| Luxembourg - All locations | Luxembourg | ||||
| Macedonia, Republic of - All locations | Skopje | ||||
| Malta - All locations | Valletta | ||||
| Monaco - All locations | Monaco | ||||
| Montenegro - All locations | Podgorica | ||||
| Netherlands - All of locations observing DST | Amsterdam | ||||
| Norway - All locations | Hammerfest Longyearbyen(Svalbard) Oslo | ||||
| San Marino - All locations | San Marino | ||||
| Serbia - All locations | Belgrade | ||||
| Slovakia - All locations | Bratislava | ||||
| Slovenia - All locations | Ljubljana | ||||
| Spain - Most of locations observing DST | Barcelona(Barcelona) Madrid Palma(Majorca) | ||||
| Sweden - All locations | Stockholm | ||||
| Switzerland - All locations | Bern Geneva Zürich | ||||
| Mar 27 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | forward to | Sun 4:00 AM | Finland - All locations | Helsinki Rovaniemi |
| Greece - All locations | Athens | ||||
| Mar 27 at 02:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Portugal - Most locations | Lisbon |
| Mar 27 at 03:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Portugal - Some locations | Azores |
| Mar 30 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Wed-Thu | forward to | Thu 1:00 AM | Iraq - All locations | Baghdad |
| Mar 31 at 12:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Anadyr Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
| Mar 31 at 13:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Magadan Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Mar 31 at 14:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vladivostok |
| Mar 31 at 15:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Mar 31 at 16:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Ulaanbaatar |
| Russia - Some locations | Irkutsk | ||||
| Mar 31 at 16:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 2:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Choibalsan |
| Mar 31 at 17:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Hovd |
| Russia - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk Norilsk Novosibirsk | ||||
| Mar 31 at 18:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Some locations | Almaty Astana |
| Kyrgyzstan - All locations | Bishkek | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Omsk | ||||
| Tajikistan - All locations | Dushanbe | ||||
| Uzbekistan - Some locations | Tashkent | ||||
| Mar 31 at 19:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Some locations | Aqtobe Oral |
| Russia - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg | ||||
| Turkmenistan - All locations | Ashgabat | ||||
| Uzbekistan - Most locations | Samarkand | ||||
| Mar 31 at 20:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku | ||||
| Georgia - All locations | Tbilisi | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Mar 31 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | 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 | ||||
| Mar 31 at 23:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Libya - All locations | Tripoli |
| Apr 1 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | back to | Thu 11:00 PM | Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion |
| Apr 9 at 00:00:00 | Sat 2:00 AM | forward to | Sat 3:00 AM | Syria - All locations | Damascus |
| Apr 17 at 23:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | forward to | Mon 1:00 AM | Albania - All locations | Tirana |
| Apr 23 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Republic of South Sudan - All locations | Juba |
| Sudan - All locations | Khartoum | ||||
| Apr 24 at 05:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's(Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Apr 24 at 06:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 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) | ||||
| Apr 24 at 07:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 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) | ||||
| Apr 24 at 08:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Baker Lake(Nunavut Territory) Resolute(Nunavut Territory) Winnipeg(Manitoba) |
| 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) | ||||
| Apr 24 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 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) | ||||
| Apr 24 at 10:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 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) | ||||
| Apr 24 at 11:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Yakutat(Alaska) |
| Apr 24 at 12:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Anchorage(Alaska) Fairbanks(Alaska) Unalaska(Alaska) |
| Apr 24 at 13:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak(Alaska) |
| May 8 at 05:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Haiti - All locations | Port-au-Prince | ||||
| May 21 at 06:00:00 | Midnight Fri-Sat | forward to | Sat 1:00 AM | Guatemala - All locations | Guatemala |
Daylight Saving Time for other years
| Yearly overview | January–June | July–December |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1984 | first half of 1984 | second half of 1984 |
| 1985 | first half of 1985 | second half of 1985 |
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