Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1998

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 1998.

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 1998 or the overview over start and end times for 1998 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Mar 1 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST) Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 14 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 15 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 20 Fri	Israel (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 22 Sun	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Cuba (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Georgia (Most locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Mongolia (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (Most locations) Spain (Some locations) Turkey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 29 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Armenia (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) Estonia (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Liechtenstein (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) 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) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	2:30 am → 3:30 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 29 Sun	Lithuania (All locations)	3:00 am → 3:00 am (No Change)
Mar 29 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Finland (All locations) Georgia (Some locations) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	4:00 am → 5:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Mon	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Wed	Iraq (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 5 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 1:01 am (Forward)
Apr 5 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 5 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Greenland (Thule Air Base) Mexico (Most locations) 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 5 Sun	Mexico (Some locations)	3:00 am → 3:00 am (No Change)
Apr 19 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 24 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
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
2000	first half of 2000	second half of 2000

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1998

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