Daylight Saving Time–first half of 2008
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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 20082008.
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 2008 or the overview over start and end times for 2008 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Jan 21 at 02:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | back to | Sun 11:00 PM | Argentina - Some locations | San Luis(San Luis) |
| Feb 17 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) Sao Paulo(São Paulo) |
| Feb 17 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Brazil - Some of locations observing DST | Barra do Garças(Mato Grosso) |
| Mar 9 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion |
| Mar 9 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) |
| Mar 9 at 04:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Uruguay - All locations | Montevideo |
| Mar 9 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) |
| Mar 9 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 |
| Mar 9 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) Saint John(New Brunswick) | ||||
| Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Qaanaaq | ||||
| Mar 9 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) |
| 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) Indianapolis(Indiana) Louisville(Kentucky) Miami(Florida) Montpelier(Vermont) New York(New York) Philadelphia(Pennsylvania) Raleigh(North Carolina) Richmond(Virginia) Washington DC(District of Columbia) | ||||
| Mar 9 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) |
| 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) | ||||
| Mar 9 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 of locations observing DST | Ciudad Juárez(Chihuahua) | ||||
| 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) | ||||
| Mar 9 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) |
| 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) | ||||
| Mar 9 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) |
| Mar 9 at 12:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak(Alaska) |
| Mar 16 at 02:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Argentina - Most locations | Buenos Aires Córdoba(Córdoba) |
| Mar 16 at 05:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Mar 20 at 20:30:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Iran - All locations | Tehran |
| Mar 27 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 | ||||
| Mar 28 at 00:00:00 | Fri 2:00 AM | forward to | Fri 3:00 AM | Israel - All locations | Jerusalem Tel Aviv |
| Mar 29 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Anadyr Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
| Mar 29 at 15:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Magadan |
| Mar 29 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Komsomolsk-on-Amur Vladivostok Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
| Mar 29 at 17:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Mar 29 at 17:15:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Eucla(Western Australia) |
| Mar 29 at 18:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Irkutsk |
| Mar 29 at 18:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Perth(Western Australia) |
| Mar 29 at 19:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk Norilsk |
| Mar 29 at 20:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Novosibirsk Omsk |
| Mar 29 at 21:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Russia - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg |
| Mar 29 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Lebanon - All locations | Beirut |
| Mar 29 at 22:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Russia - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Mar 29 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 30 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Belarus - All locations | Minsk |
| Russia - Some locations | Kaliningrad | ||||
| Mar 30 at 00:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | forward to | Sun 5:00 AM | Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku |
| Mar 30 at 01:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Nuuk |
| Mar 30 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 30 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 30 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 | ||||
| Tunisia - All locations | Tunis | ||||
| Mar 30 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | forward to | Sun 4:00 AM | Bulgaria - All locations | Sofia |
| Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia | ||||
| Estonia - All locations | Tallinn | ||||
| Finland - All locations | Helsinki Rovaniemi | ||||
| Greece - All locations | Athens | ||||
| Latvia - All locations | Riga | ||||
| Lithuania - All locations | Vilnius | ||||
| Moldova - All locations | Chisinau | ||||
| Romania - All locations | Bucharest | ||||
| Turkey - All locations | Ankara Istanbul | ||||
| Ukraine - All locations | Kyiv Odesa | ||||
| Mar 30 at 03:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | back to | Sat 9:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Mar 30 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
| Apr 3 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Syria - All locations | Damascus |
| Apr 5 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 | ||||
| Apr 5 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:45 AM | back to | Sun 2:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Apr 5 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) |
| Apr 5 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) |
| Apr 5 at 16:30:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide(South Australia) |
| Apr 6 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Namibia - All locations | Windhoek |
| Apr 6 at 08:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Mexico - Most of locations observing DST | Acapulco(Guerrero) Aguascalientes(Aguascalientes) Guadalajara(Jalisco) Mexico City(Federal District) Veracruz(Veracruz) |
| Apr 6 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mazatlan(Sinaloa) |
| Apr 6 at 10:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mexicali(Baja California) Tijuana(Baja California) |
| Apr 20 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Falkland Islands - All locations | Stanley |
| Apr 24 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Egypt - All locations | Cairo |
| May 31 at 19:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Pakistan - All locations | Islamabad Karachi Lahore |
| Jun 1 at 00:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Morocco - All locations | Casablanca Rabat |
| Western Sahara - All locations | El Aaiún | ||||
Daylight Saving Time for other years
| Yearly overview | January–June | July–December |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | first half of 2006 | second half of 2006 |
| 2007 | first half of 2007 | second half of 2007 |
| 2008 | first half of 2008 | second half of 2008 |
| 2009 | first half of 2009 | second half of 2009 |
| 2010 | first half of 2010 | second half of 2010 |
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