Daylight Saving Time–second half of 1997
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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 19971997.
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 1997 or the overview over start and end times for 1997 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Sep 7 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Namibia - All locations | Windhoek |
| Sep 13 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Israel - All locations | Jerusalem Tel Aviv |
| Sep 14 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Falkland Islands - All locations | Stanley |
| Sep 18 at 22:00:00 | Fri 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Thu-Fri | Gaza Strip - All locations | Gaza |
| Jordan - All locations | Amman | ||||
| West Bank - All locations | Bethlehem | ||||
| Sep 21 at 19:30:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | back to | Sun 11:00 PM | Iran - All locations | Tehran |
| Sep 25 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | back to | Thu 11:00 PM | Egypt - All locations | Cairo |
| Sep 27 at 14:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Mongolia - Some locations | Choibalsan |
| Sep 27 at 15:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Mongolia - Some locations | Ulaanbaatar |
| Sep 27 at 16:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Mongolia - Some locations | Hovd |
| Sep 27 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia |
| Lebanon - All locations | Beirut | ||||
| Sep 30 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Tue-Wed | back to | Tue 11:00 PM | Syria - All locations | Damascus |
| Oct 1 at 00:00:00 | Wed 4:00 AM | back to | Wed 3:00 AM | Iraq - All locations | Baghdad |
| Oct 3 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Fri-Sat | no change | Midnight Fri-Sat | Libya - All locations | Tripoli |
| Oct 4 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 4 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:45 AM | forward to | Sun 3:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Oct 4 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Hobart(Tasmania) |
| Oct 5 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion |
| Oct 6 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | forward to | Mon 1:00 AM | Brazil - Most of locations observing DST | Brasilia(Distrito Federal) Rio de Janeiro(Rio de Janeiro) Salvador(Bahia) Sao Paulo(São Paulo) |
| Oct 6 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | forward to | Mon 1:00 AM | Brazil - Some of locations observing DST | Barra do Garças(Mato Grosso) |
| Oct 12 at 04:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Oct 12 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
| Oct 12 at 05:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Sat-Sun | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Oct 25 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Anadyr Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
| Oct 25 at 15:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Magadan |
| Oct 25 at 15:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:30 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Lord Howe Island(Lord Howe Island) |
| Oct 25 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Canberra(Australian Capital Territory) Melbourne(Victoria) Sydney(New South Wales) |
| Oct 25 at 16:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vladivostok Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Oct 25 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 17:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Oct 25 at 18:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Irkutsk |
| Oct 25 at 19:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Georgia - All locations | Tbilisi |
| Oct 25 at 19:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk Norilsk |
| Oct 25 at 20:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Most locations | Almaty Astana |
| Russia - Some locations | Novosibirsk Omsk | ||||
| Oct 25 at 20:30:00 | Sun 2:30 AM | back to | Sun 1:30 AM | Kyrgyzstan - All locations | Bishkek |
| Oct 25 at 21:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Some locations | Aqtobe |
| Russia - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg | ||||
| Oct 25 at 22:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Kazakhstan - Some locations | Oral | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Oct 25 at 23:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Turkey - All locations | Ankara Istanbul |
| Oct 25 at 23:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Belushya Guba Kazan Moscow Murmansk Novgorod Saint-Petersburg |
| Oct 26 at 00:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Belarus - All locations | Minsk |
| Estonia - All locations | Tallinn | ||||
| Lithuania - All locations | Vilnius | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Kaliningrad | ||||
| Oct 26 at 00:00:00 | Sun 5:00 AM | back to | Sun 4:00 AM | Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku |
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sat 11:00 PM | back to | Sat 10:00 PM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Nuuk |
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Sat-Sun | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Ittoqqortoormiit |
| Portugal - Some locations | Azores | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Färöer - All locations | Tórshavn(Faroe Islands) |
| Ireland - All locations | Dublin | ||||
| Isle of Man - All locations | Douglas | ||||
| Portugal - Most locations | Lisbon | ||||
| Spain - Some locations | Las Palmas(Canary Islands) | ||||
| United Kingdom - All locations | Belfast(Northern Ireland) Cardiff(Wales) Glasgow(Scotland) London(England) | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Albania - All locations | Tirana |
| Andorra - All locations | Andorra La Vella | ||||
| Austria - All locations | Vienna(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 | ||||
| Poland - All locations | Warsaw | ||||
| San Marino - All locations | San Marino | ||||
| Serbia - All locations | Belgrade | ||||
| Slovakia - All locations | Bratislava | ||||
| Slovenia - All locations | Ljubljana | ||||
| Spain - Most locations | Barcelona(Barcelona) Madrid Palma(Majorca) | ||||
| Sweden - All locations | Stockholm | ||||
| Switzerland - All locations | Bern(Bern) Geneva(Geneva) Zürich(Zurich) | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | back to | Sun 3:00 AM | Bulgaria - All locations | Sofia |
| Finland - All locations | Helsinki Rovaniemi | ||||
| Greece - All locations | Athens | ||||
| Latvia - All locations | Riga | ||||
| Moldova - All locations | Chisinau | ||||
| Romania - All locations | Bucharest | ||||
| Ukraine - All locations | Kyiv Odesa | ||||
| Oct 26 at 02:31:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | back to | Sat 11:01 PM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's(Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Oct 26 at 03:01:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | back to | Sat 11:01 PM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Happy Valley-Goose Bay(Newfoundland and Labrador) Saint John(New Brunswick) |
| Oct 26 at 04:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon - All locations | Saint-Pierre |
| Oct 26 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) | ||||
| Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Qaanaaq | ||||
| Oct 26 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) |
| Haiti - All locations | Port-au-Prince | ||||
| Mexico - Some locations | Cancún(Quintana Roo) | ||||
| 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 26 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) |
| Mexico - Most locations | Acapulco(Guerrero) Aguascalientes(Aguascalientes) Guadalajara(Jalisco) Mexico City(Federal District) Veracruz(Veracruz) | ||||
| 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 26 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 locations | Hermosillo(Sonora) Mazatlan(Sinaloa) | ||||
| 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 26 at 08:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Winnipeg(Manitoba) |
| Oct 26 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 locations | 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 26 at 10:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Anchorage(Alaska) Fairbanks(Alaska) Unalaska(Alaska) |
| Oct 26 at 11:00:00 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | first half of 1995 | second half of 1995 |
| 1996 | first half of 1996 | second half of 1996 |
| 1997 | first half of 1997 | second half of 1997 |
| 1998 | first half of 1998 | second half of 1998 |
| 1999 | first half of 1999 | second half of 1999 |
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