Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1986

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 1986.

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 1986 or the overview over start and end times for 1986 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Jan 1 Wed	Peru (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Feb 16 Sun	Syria (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 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 (Some locations 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	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 9 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Sat	Brazil (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 16 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 23 Sun	Vanuatu (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 29 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Mongolia (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Iraq (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Poland (All locations) Portugal (All locations) Spain (Some locations) Turkey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Armenia (All locations) Austria (All locations) Azerbaijan (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) Estonia (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Georgia (All locations) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Kyrgyzstan (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) Romania (All locations) Russia (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Serbia (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Slovenia (All locations) Spain (Most locations) Sweden (All locations) Switzerland (All locations) Tajikistan (All locations) Turkmenistan (All locations) Ukraine (All locations) Uzbekistan (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Finland (All locations) Greece (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Tue	Paraguay (All locations) Peru (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 4 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Libya (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 20 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 27 Sun	Haiti (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 27 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are observing DST) 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	Lebanon (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Thu	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 4 Sun	China (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 18 Sun	Israel (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
1984	first half of 1984	second half of 1984
1985	first half of 1985	second half of 1985
1986	first half of 1986	second half of 1986
1987	first half of 1987	second half of 1987
1988	first half of 1988	second half of 1988

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1986

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