Daylight Saving Time–first half of 2012
More About Daylight Saving Time
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 20122012.
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 2012 or the overview over start and end times for 2012 sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Jan 21 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Fiji - All locations | Suva |
| Feb 26 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) |
| Feb 26 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Brazil - Some of locations observing DST | Campo Grande(Mato Grosso Do Sul) |
| Mar 11 at 04:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Uruguay - All locations | Montevideo |
| Mar 11 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Saint Pierre and Miquelon - All locations | Saint-Pierre |
| Mar 11 at 05:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's(Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Mar 11 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) Happy Valley-Goose Bay(Newfoundland and Labrador) Saint John(New Brunswick) | ||||
| Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Qaanaaq | ||||
| Mar 11 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) |
| Haiti - All locations | Port-au-Prince | ||||
| 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 11 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 - Some of locations observing DST | Matamoros(Tamaulipas) | ||||
| 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 11 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 11 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 of locations observing DST | 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) | ||||
| Mar 11 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 11 at 12:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak(Alaska) |
| Mar 20 at 20:30:00 | Midnight Tue-Wed | forward to | Wed 1:00 AM | Iran - All locations | Tehran |
| Mar 24 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Lebanon - All locations | Beirut |
| Mar 25 at 00:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | forward to | Sun 5:00 AM | Azerbaijan - Some of locations observing DST | Baku |
| Mar 25 at 01:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Greenland - Some of locations observing DST | Nuuk |
| Mar 25 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 25 at 01:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:00 AM | Faroe Islands - 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 25 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(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) | ||||
| Mar 25 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 29 at 22:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | forward to | Fri 1:00 AM | Gaza Strip - All locations | Gaza |
| Jordan - All locations | Amman | ||||
| Syria - All locations | Damascus | ||||
| West Bank - All locations | Bethlehem | ||||
| Mar 30 at 00:00:00 | Fri 2:00 AM | forward to | Fri 3:00 AM | Israel - All locations | Jerusalem Tel Aviv |
| Mar 31 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 31 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:45 AM | back to | Sun 2:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands(Chatham Islands) |
| Mar 31 at 14:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | back to | Sun 3:00 AM | Samoa - All locations | Apia |
| Mar 31 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 31 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 31 at 16:30:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide(South Australia) |
| Apr 1 at 00:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Namibia - All locations | Windhoek |
| Apr 1 at 05:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Apr 1 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 1 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mazatlan(Sinaloa) |
| Apr 8 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion |
| Apr 29 at 02:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Morocco - All locations | Casablanca Rabat |
| Western Sahara - All locations | El Aaiún | ||||
| Apr 29 at 03:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | back to | Sat 9:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Apr 29 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Most locations | Punta Arenas Santiago |
Daylight Saving Time for other years
| Yearly overview | January–June | July–December |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | first half of 2010 | second half of 2010 |
| 2011 | first half of 2011 | second half of 2011 |
| 2012 | first half of 2012 | second half of 2012 |
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