Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1981

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 1981.

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 1981 or the overview over start and end times for 1981 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Mar 1 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:30 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 1 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 14 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 8:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Sun	Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 28 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Hungary (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit)	12:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Poland (All locations) Portugal (All locations) Spain (Some locations observing DST) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) Finland (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Italy (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) Romania (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Spain (Most locations observing DST) Sweden (All locations) Switzerland (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sun	Greece (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Wed	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 1 Wed	Armenia (All locations) Azerbaijan (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Georgia (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations which are observing DST) Kyrgyzstan (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Russia (Most locations) Tajikistan (All locations) Turkmenistan (All locations) Ukraine (All locations) Uzbekistan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Wed	Russia (Some locations)	12:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 4 Sat	Bulgaria (All locations)	11:00 pm → 12:00 am (Forward)
Apr 26 Sun	Albania (All locations) South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 26 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are 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 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 10 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
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
1982	first half of 1982	second half of 1982
1983	first half of 1983	second half of 1983

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1981

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