Daylight Saving Time–Second 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 second 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 first half of 1981 or the overview over start and end times for 1981 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Sep 26 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	11:00 pm → 10:00 pm (Back)
Sep 27 Sun	Albania (All locations) Cyprus (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 27 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Hungary (All locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Sep 27 Sun	Bulgaria (All locations) Faroe Islands (All locations) Poland (All locations) Portugal (All locations) Spain (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Sep 27 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)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Sep 27 Sun	Greece (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
Oct 1 Thu	Armenia (All locations) Azerbaijan (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Georgia (All locations) Kazakhstan (Some locations observing DST) Kyrgyzstan (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Russia (All locations) Tajikistan (All locations) Turkmenistan (All locations) Ukraine (All locations) Uzbekistan (Some locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 1 Thu	Kazakhstan (Most locations observing DST) Uzbekistan (Most locations)	12:00 am → 12:00 am (No Change)
Oct 1 Thu	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 1 Thu	Egypt (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Oct 10 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 10:00 pm (Forward)
Oct 11 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 11 Sun	Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 15 Thu	South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 25 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 12:30 am (Forward)
Oct 25 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jamaica (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Oct 25 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 25 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	2:45 am → 3:45 am (Forward)
Oct 25 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)

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–Second Half of 1981

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