Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1988

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 1988.

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 1988 or the overview over start and end times for 1988 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 7 Sun	Brazil (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Feb 28 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:30 pm (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 12 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 13 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Tue	Syria (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 20 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 20 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 20 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 26 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Vanuatu (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 27 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Mongolia (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Iraq (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (All locations) Spain (Some locations) Turkey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Russia (Some locations)	2:00 am → 2:00 am (No Change)
Mar 27 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) Poland (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) Romania (All locations) Russia (Most 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 27 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Finland (All locations) Greece (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 1 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Libya (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 2:01 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Haiti (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 10 Sun	Israel (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 17 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 17 Sun	China (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Sun	El Salvador (All locations) Honduras (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Sun	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 8 Sun	South Korea (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Jun 1 Wed	Lebanon (All locations) Tunisia (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
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
1989	first half of 1989	second half of 1989
1990	first half of 1990	second half of 1990

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1988

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