Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1979

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is often incorrectly referred to as “daylight savings time”. In some countries, it is also called “summer 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 showing the countries and territories which observed DST during the first half of 1979.

Current country/territory names, rather than historic country names are displayed, so the list could contain countries that did not exist at the time.

Also, please see the page for the second half of 1979 or the overview over start and end times for 1979 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 25 Sun	Costa Rica (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Feb 27 Tue	New Caledonia (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 4 Sun	Uruguay (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 4 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:30 pm (Back)
Mar 4 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (All locations which are observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 4 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 10 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 8:00 pm (Back)
Mar 11 Sun	Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 18 Sun	Cuba (All locations) Nicaragua (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 18 Sun	Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Wed	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Sat	Bulgaria (All locations)	11:00 pm → 12:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 1 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Portugal (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Poland (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Belgium (All locations) Czechia (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Luxembourg (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Slovakia (All locations) Spain (All locations which are observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Greece (All locations)	9:00 am → 10:00 am (Forward)
Apr 15 Sun	Barbados (All locations) Malta (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 29 Sun	South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations) Uruguay (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 29 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Some locations observing DST) Jamaica (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Tue	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 5 Sat	Albania (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 13 Sun	Hong Kong (All locations) Macau (All locations)	3:30 am → 4:30 am (Forward)
May 27 Sun	Italy (All locations) Romania (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Jun 3 Sun	Costa Rica (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Jun 25 Mon	Nicaragua (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
1977	first half of 1977	second half of 1977
1978	first half of 1978	second half of 1978
1979	first half of 1979	second half of 1979
1980	first half of 1980	second half of 1980
1981	first half of 1981	second half of 1981

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1979

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