Daylight Saving Time–first half of 1998
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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 19981998.
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 1998 or the overview over start and end times for 1998 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Mar 1 at 02:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Brazil - Most of locations observing DST | Brasilia(Distrito Federal) Rio de Janeiro(Rio de Janeiro) Salvador(Bahia) Sao Paulo(São Paulo) |
| Mar 1 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Brazil - Some of locations observing DST | Barra do Garças(Mato Grosso) |
| Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion | ||||
| Mar 14 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 14 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:45 AM | back to | Sun 2:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Mar 15 at 03:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | back to | Sat 9:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Mar 15 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
| Mar 19 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Israel - All locations | Jerusalem Tel Aviv |
| Mar 21 at 20:30:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Iran - All locations | Tehran |
| Mar 28 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Anadyr Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
| Mar 28 at 15:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Choibalsan |
| Mar 28 at 15:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:30 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Lord Howe Island(Lord Howe Island) |
| Mar 28 at 15:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Magadan |
| Mar 28 at 16:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Ulaanbaatar |
| Mar 28 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vladivostok Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Mar 28 at 16:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Most of locations observing DST | Canberra(Australian Capital Territory) Hobart(Tasmania) Melbourne(Victoria) Sydney(New South Wales) |
| Mar 28 at 16:30:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide(South Australia) |
| Mar 28 at 17:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mongolia - Some locations | Hovd |
| Mar 28 at 17:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Mar 28 at 18:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Irkutsk |
| Mar 28 at 19:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk Norilsk |
| Mar 28 at 20:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Georgia - All locations | Tbilisi |
| Mar 28 at 20:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Most locations | Almaty Astana |
| Russia - Some locations | Novosibirsk Omsk | ||||
| Mar 28 at 21:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Kazakhstan - Some locations | Aqtobe |
| Russia - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg | ||||
| Mar 28 at 21:30:00 | Sun 2:30 AM | forward to | Sun 3:30 AM | Kyrgyzstan - All locations | Bishkek |
| Mar 28 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia |
| Lebanon - All locations | Beirut | ||||
| Mar 28 at 22:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Kazakhstan - Some locations | Oral | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Mar 28 at 23:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:00 AM | Turkey - All locations | Ankara Istanbul |
| Mar 28 at 23:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Belushya Guba Kazan Moscow Murmansk Novgorod Saint-Petersburg |
| Mar 29 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Belarus - All locations | Minsk |
| Estonia - All locations | Tallinn | ||||
| Russia - Some locations | Kaliningrad | ||||
| Mar 29 at 00:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | forward to | Sun 5:00 AM | Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku |
| Mar 29 at 01:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Nuuk |
| Mar 29 at 01:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Ittoqqortoormiit |
| Portugal - Some locations | Azores | ||||
| Mar 29 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 | ||||
| Portugal - Most locations | Lisbon | ||||
| Spain - Some locations | Las Palmas(Canary Islands) | ||||
| United Kingdom - All locations | Belfast(Northern Ireland) Cardiff(Wales) Glasgow(Scotland) London(England) | ||||
| Mar 29 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Albania - All locations | Tirana |
| Andorra - All locations | Andorra La Vella | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 Geneva Zürich | ||||
| Mar 29 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | no change | Sun 3:00 AM | Lithuania - All locations | Vilnius |
| Mar 29 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | forward to | Sun 4:00 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 | ||||
| Mar 29 at 05:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Mar 29 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | forward to | Mon 1:00 AM | Syria - All locations | Damascus |
| Apr 1 at 00:00:00 | Wed 3:00 AM | forward to | Wed 4:00 AM | Iraq - All locations | Baghdad |
| Apr 2 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Gaza Strip - All locations | Gaza |
| Jordan - All locations | Amman | ||||
| West Bank - All locations | Bethlehem | ||||
| Apr 5 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Namibia - All locations | Windhoek |
| Apr 5 at 03:31:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | forward to | Sun 1:01 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's(Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Apr 5 at 04:01:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | forward to | Sun 1:01 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Happy Valley-Goose Bay(Newfoundland and Labrador) Saint John(New Brunswick) |
| Apr 5 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon - All locations | Saint-Pierre |
| Apr 5 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) | ||||
| Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Qaanaaq | ||||
| Apr 5 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) |
| 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) | ||||
| Apr 5 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) |
| 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) | ||||
| Apr 5 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 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) | ||||
| Apr 5 at 09:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | no change | Sun 3:00 AM | Mexico - Some locations | Chihuahua(Chihuahua) |
| Apr 5 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 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) | ||||
| Apr 5 at 11:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Anchorage(Alaska) Fairbanks(Alaska) Unalaska(Alaska) |
| Apr 5 at 12:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak(Alaska) |
| Apr 19 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Falkland Islands - All locations | Stanley |
| Apr 23 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Egypt - All locations | Cairo |
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 |
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