Brazil: Daylight Saving Time dates for 2007–2008 announced
Many Brazilian cities observe daylight saving time during the summer months in the southern hemisphere.

Brazil's DST dates for 2007 and 2008 announced
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Most southern states in Brazil will observe Daylight Saving Time (DST) from Sunday, October 14, 2007 to Sunday, February 17 of 2008. The clocks are adjusted one hour forward at the start of the day (midnight between Saturday and Sunday) on October 14, 2007. The clocks should be set back one hour at midnight between Saturday and Sunday on Febrary 17, 2008.
Brazil's dates change often, so it is difficult to predict dates for future years.
Affected states
The northern part of the country (states north of Distrito Federal (Brasilia), including Mato Grosso and Bahia) do not observe DST, while states mainly south of 15° sou th will observe DST.
States and capitals affected by Daylight Saving Time:
- Distrito Federal - Brasilia
- Espírito Santo - Vitória
- Goiás - Goiânia
- Mato Grosso Do Sul - Cuiabá
- Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte
- Paraná - Curitiba
- Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Sul - Porto Alegre
- Santa Catarina - Florianópolis
- São Paulo - São Paulo
Official announcement
An announcement was published by the Ministério de Minas e Energia (Ministry of Mines and Energy) and is available on their web site in Portugese: 37th edition. The same states will observe DST as last year.
Dates of Daylight Saving Time 1985–2008
These are the dates Daylight Saving Time started and ended in most of Brazil since 1985. Also, note that some of the above states did not observe DST all these years, but those locations that did observe DST used these common start and ending dates.
Current Local Times Around the World | |||||||
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Accra | Wed 4:32 am | Casablanca * | Wed 5:32 am | Kolkata | Wed 10:02 am | Reykjavik | Wed 4:32 am |
Addis Ababa | Wed 7:32 am | Chicago | Tue 10:32 pm | Kuala Lumpur | Wed 12:32 pm | Rio de Janeiro | Wed 1:32 am |
Adelaide * | Wed 3:02 pm | Copenhagen | Wed 5:32 am | Kuwait City | Wed 7:32 am | Riyadh | Wed 7:32 am |
Algiers | Wed 5:32 am | Dallas | Tue 10:32 pm | Kyiv | Wed 6:32 am | Rome | Wed 5:32 am |
Almaty | Wed 10:32 am | Dar es Salaam | Wed 7:32 am | La Paz | Wed 12:32 am | Salt Lake City | Tue 9:32 pm |
Amman | Wed 6:32 am | Darwin | Wed 2:02 pm | Lagos | Wed 5:32 am | San Francisco | Tue 8:32 pm |
Amsterdam | Wed 5:32 am | Denver | Tue 9:32 pm | Lahore | Wed 9:32 am | San Juan | Wed 12:32 am |
Anadyr | Wed 4:32 pm | Detroit | Tue 11:32 pm | Las Vegas | Tue 8:32 pm | San Salvador | Tue 10:32 pm |
Anchorage | Tue 7:32 pm | Dhaka | Wed 10:32 am | Lima | Tue 11:32 pm | Santiago * | Wed 1:32 am |
Ankara | Wed 7:32 am | Doha | Wed 7:32 am | Lisbon | Wed 4:32 am | Santo Domingo | Wed 12:32 am |
Antananarivo | Wed 7:32 am | Dubai | Wed 8:32 am | London | Wed 4:32 am | São Paulo | Wed 1:32 am |
Asuncion * | Wed 1:32 am | Dublin | Wed 4:32 am | Los Angeles | Tue 8:32 pm | Seattle | Tue 8:32 pm |
Athens | Wed 6:32 am | Edmonton | Tue 9:32 pm | Madrid | Wed 5:32 am | Seoul | Wed 1:32 pm |
Atlanta | Tue 11:32 pm | Frankfurt | Wed 5:32 am | Managua | Tue 10:32 pm | Shanghai | Wed 12:32 pm |
Auckland * | Wed 5:32 pm | Guatemala City | Tue 10:32 pm | Manila | Wed 12:32 pm | Singapore | Wed 12:32 pm |
Baghdad | Wed 7:32 am | Halifax | Wed 12:32 am | Melbourne * | Wed 3:32 pm | Sofia | Wed 6:32 am |
Bangalore | Wed 10:02 am | Hanoi | Wed 11:32 am | Mexico City | Tue 10:32 pm | St. John's | Wed 1:02 am |
Bangkok | Wed 11:32 am | Harare | Wed 6:32 am | Miami | Tue 11:32 pm | Stockholm | Wed 5:32 am |
Barcelona | Wed 5:32 am | Havana | Tue 11:32 pm | Minneapolis | Tue 10:32 pm | Suva | Wed 4:32 pm |
Beijing | Wed 12:32 pm | Helsinki | Wed 6:32 am | Minsk | Wed 7:32 am | Sydney * | Wed 3:32 pm |
Beirut | Wed 6:32 am | Hong Kong | Wed 12:32 pm | Montevideo | Wed 1:32 am | Taipei | Wed 12:32 pm |
Belgrade | Wed 5:32 am | Honolulu | Tue 6:32 pm | Montréal | Tue 11:32 pm | Tallinn | Wed 6:32 am |
Berlin | Wed 5:32 am | Houston | Tue 10:32 pm | Moscow | Wed 7:32 am | Tashkent | Wed 9:32 am |
Bogota | Tue 11:32 pm | Indianapolis | Tue 11:32 pm | Mumbai | Wed 10:02 am | Tegucigalpa | Tue 10:32 pm |
Boston | Tue 11:32 pm | Islamabad | Wed 9:32 am | Nairobi | Wed 7:32 am | Tehran | Wed 8:02 am |
Brasilia | Wed 1:32 am | Istanbul | Wed 7:32 am | Nassau | Tue 11:32 pm | Tokyo | Wed 1:32 pm |
Brisbane | Wed 2:32 pm | Jakarta | Wed 11:32 am | New Delhi | Wed 10:02 am | Toronto | Tue 11:32 pm |
Brussels | Wed 5:32 am | Jerusalem | Wed 6:32 am | New Orleans | Tue 10:32 pm | Vancouver | Tue 8:32 pm |
Bucharest | Wed 6:32 am | Johannesburg | Wed 6:32 am | New York | Tue 11:32 pm | Vienna | Wed 5:32 am |
Budapest | Wed 5:32 am | Kabul | Wed 9:02 am | Oslo | Wed 5:32 am | Warsaw | Wed 5:32 am |
Buenos Aires | Wed 1:32 am | Karachi | Wed 9:32 am | Ottawa | Tue 11:32 pm | Washington DC | Tue 11:32 pm |
Cairo | Wed 6:32 am | Kathmandu | Wed 10:17 am | Paris | Wed 5:32 am | Winnipeg | Tue 10:32 pm |
Calgary | Tue 9:32 pm | Khartoum | Wed 6:32 am | Perth | Wed 12:32 pm | Yangon | Wed 11:02 am |
Canberra * | Wed 3:32 pm | Kingston | Tue 11:32 pm | Philadelphia | Tue 11:32 pm | Zagreb | Wed 5:32 am |
Cape Town | Wed 6:32 am | Kinshasa | Wed 5:32 am | Phoenix | Tue 9:32 pm | Zürich | Wed 5:32 am |
Caracas | Wed 12:32 am | Kiritimati | Wed 6:32 pm | Prague | Wed 5:32 am |
* Adjusted for Daylight Saving Time (8 places).
Tue = Tuesday, January 26, 2021 (39 places).
Wed = Wednesday, January 27, 2021 (104 places).
UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 04:32:14
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.