Daylight Saving Time–Second 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 second 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 first half of 1979 or the overview over start and end times for 1979 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Jul 1 Sun	Taiwan (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Sep 16 Sun	Malta (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Sep 19 Wed	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 29 Sat	Greece (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Sep 30 Sun	Albania (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Romania (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 30 Sun	Italy (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Sep 30 Sun	Barbados (All locations) Poland (All locations) Portugal (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Sep 30 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)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Oct 1 Mon	Taiwan (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 1 Mon	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 1 Mon	Bulgaria (All locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Oct 1 Mon	Egypt (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Oct 13 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 10:00 pm (Forward)
Oct 14 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 14 Sun	Chad (All locations) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 15 Mon	South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 21 Sun	Hong Kong (All locations) Macau (All locations)	3:30 am → 2:30 am (Back)
Oct 28 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 12:30 am (Forward)
Oct 28 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 → 1:00 am (Back)
Oct 28 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (All locations which are observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Oct 28 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	2:45 am → 3:45 am (Forward)
Oct 28 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (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–Second Half of 1979

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