Syria’s Daylight Saving Starts on March 27, 2009
Syria will observe daylight saving time on 27 March, 2009.

Syria Starts DST on March 27, 2009
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Syria will start daylight saving time at midnight (00:00) between Thursday, March 26, and Friday, March 27, in 2009. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers recently issued a communiqué to confirm this arrangement, also known as “summer time”, which will see the clocks move one hour forward.
2009 Daylight Saving Schedule
Syria will observe Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), which is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or UTC +3 hours, during the 2009 daylight saving schedule. The 2009 daylight saving arrangement is a few days earlier than the 2008 daylight saving schedule, which started at midnight (00:00) between April 3 and April 4, 2008.
Syria observes daylight saving time to save energy during country’s summer months. The Ministry of Electricity had suggested daylight saving time in Syria to begin on the above-mentioned dates for 2009. Interestingly, the ministry also discussed at a recent Cabinet meeting a memo on the expected demand for energy in 2009 and upcoming years.
The daylight saving arrangement is expected to end at midnight (00:00) between the Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1, when the clocks will move back by one hour to 11pm (or 23:00) on Saturday, October 31. However, the end date has not yet been confirmed.
Time Zone
Syria is on Eastern European Time (EET), which is UTC +2 hours, during the non-daylight saving schedule. The nation moves the hour forward by one hour to EEST (UTC +3 hours), when it observes daylight saving time.
Dates of Daylight Saving Time 1983–2009
These are the dates Daylight Saving Time started and ended in Syria since 1983.
Current Local Times Around the World | |||||||
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Accra | Sat 3:34 pm | Casablanca | Sat 3:34 pm | Kolkata | Sat 9:04 pm | Reykjavik | Sat 3:34 pm |
Addis Ababa | Sat 6:34 pm | Chicago * | Sat 10:34 am | Kuala Lumpur | Sat 11:34 pm | Rio de Janeiro | Sat 12:34 pm |
Adelaide | Sun 1:04 am | Copenhagen * | Sat 5:34 pm | Kuwait City | Sat 6:34 pm | Riyadh | Sat 6:34 pm |
Algiers | Sat 4:34 pm | Dallas * | Sat 10:34 am | Kyiv * | Sat 6:34 pm | Rome * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Almaty | Sat 9:34 pm | Dar es Salaam | Sat 6:34 pm | La Paz | Sat 11:34 am | Salt Lake City * | Sat 9:34 am |
Amman * | Sat 6:34 pm | Darwin | Sun 1:04 am | Lagos | Sat 4:34 pm | San Francisco * | Sat 8:34 am |
Amsterdam * | Sat 5:34 pm | Denver * | Sat 9:34 am | Lahore | Sat 8:34 pm | San Juan | Sat 11:34 am |
Anadyr | Sun 3:34 am | Detroit * | Sat 11:34 am | Las Vegas * | Sat 8:34 am | San Salvador | Sat 9:34 am |
Anchorage * | Sat 7:34 am | Dhaka | Sat 9:34 pm | Lima | Sat 10:34 am | Santiago | Sat 11:34 am |
Ankara | Sat 6:34 pm | Doha | Sat 6:34 pm | Lisbon * | Sat 4:34 pm | Santo Domingo | Sat 11:34 am |
Antananarivo | Sat 6:34 pm | Dubai | Sat 7:34 pm | London * | Sat 4:34 pm | São Paulo | Sat 12:34 pm |
Asuncion | Sat 11:34 am | Dublin * | Sat 4:34 pm | Los Angeles * | Sat 8:34 am | Seattle * | Sat 8:34 am |
Athens * | Sat 6:34 pm | Edmonton * | Sat 9:34 am | Madrid * | Sat 5:34 pm | Seoul | Sun 12:34 am |
Atlanta * | Sat 11:34 am | Frankfurt * | Sat 5:34 pm | Managua | Sat 9:34 am | Shanghai | Sat 11:34 pm |
Auckland | Sun 3:34 am | Guatemala City | Sat 9:34 am | Manila | Sat 11:34 pm | Singapore | Sat 11:34 pm |
Baghdad | Sat 6:34 pm | Halifax * | Sat 12:34 pm | Melbourne | Sun 1:34 am | Sofia * | Sat 6:34 pm |
Bangkok | Sat 10:34 pm | Hanoi | Sat 10:34 pm | Mexico City * | Sat 10:34 am | St. John's * | Sat 1:04 pm |
Barcelona * | Sat 5:34 pm | Harare | Sat 5:34 pm | Miami * | Sat 11:34 am | Stockholm * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Beijing | Sat 11:34 pm | Havana * | Sat 11:34 am | Minneapolis * | Sat 10:34 am | Suva | Sun 3:34 am |
Beirut * | Sat 6:34 pm | Helsinki * | Sat 6:34 pm | Minsk | Sat 6:34 pm | Sydney | Sun 1:34 am |
Belgrade * | Sat 5:34 pm | Hong Kong | Sat 11:34 pm | Montevideo | Sat 12:34 pm | Taipei | Sat 11:34 pm |
Bengaluru | Sat 9:04 pm | Honolulu | Sat 5:34 am | Montréal * | Sat 11:34 am | Tallinn * | Sat 6:34 pm |
Berlin * | Sat 5:34 pm | Houston * | Sat 10:34 am | Moscow | Sat 6:34 pm | Tashkent | Sat 8:34 pm |
Bogota | Sat 10:34 am | Indianapolis * | Sat 11:34 am | Mumbai | Sat 9:04 pm | Tegucigalpa | Sat 9:34 am |
Boston * | Sat 11:34 am | Islamabad | Sat 8:34 pm | Nairobi | Sat 6:34 pm | Tehran * | Sat 8:04 pm |
Brasilia | Sat 12:34 pm | Istanbul | Sat 6:34 pm | Nassau * | Sat 11:34 am | Tokyo | Sun 12:34 am |
Brisbane | Sun 1:34 am | Jakarta | Sat 10:34 pm | New Delhi | Sat 9:04 pm | Toronto * | Sat 11:34 am |
Brussels * | Sat 5:34 pm | Jerusalem * | Sat 6:34 pm | New Orleans * | Sat 10:34 am | Vancouver * | Sat 8:34 am |
Bucharest * | Sat 6:34 pm | Johannesburg | Sat 5:34 pm | New York * | Sat 11:34 am | Vienna * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Budapest * | Sat 5:34 pm | Kabul | Sat 8:04 pm | Oslo * | Sat 5:34 pm | Warsaw * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Buenos Aires | Sat 12:34 pm | Karachi | Sat 8:34 pm | Ottawa * | Sat 11:34 am | Washington DC * | Sat 11:34 am |
Cairo | Sat 5:34 pm | Kathmandu | Sat 9:19 pm | Paris * | Sat 5:34 pm | Winnipeg * | Sat 10:34 am |
Calgary * | Sat 9:34 am | Khartoum | Sat 5:34 pm | Perth | Sat 11:34 pm | Yangon | Sat 10:04 pm |
Canberra | Sun 1:34 am | Kingston | Sat 10:34 am | Philadelphia * | Sat 11:34 am | Zagreb * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Cape Town | Sat 5:34 pm | Kinshasa | Sat 4:34 pm | Phoenix | Sat 8:34 am | Zürich * | Sat 5:34 pm |
Caracas | Sat 11:34 am | Kiritimati | Sun 5:34 am | Prague * | Sat 5:34 pm |
* Adjusted for Daylight Saving Time (63 places).
Sat = Saturday, April 17, 2021 (131 places).
Sun = Sunday, April 18, 2021 (12 places).
UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 15:34:35
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
Great Britain/United Kingdom is one hour ahead of UTC during summer.