Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1983

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 1983.

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 1983 or the overview over start and end times for 1983 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 12 Sat	Belize (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	Cook Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:30 pm (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 6 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 12 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 13 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 20 Sun	Mauritius (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Mar 26 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Hungary (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Poland (All locations) Spain (Some locations observing DST) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Austria (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Norway (All locations) Portugal (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) Romania (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Serbia (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Slovenia (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 27 Sun	Australia (Some locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 27 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Finland (All locations) Greece (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Thu	Iraq (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 1 Fri	Armenia (All locations) Azerbaijan (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Georgia (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations) Kyrgyzstan (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Libya (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Mongolia (Most locations) Russia (All locations) Tajikistan (All locations) Turkmenistan (All locations) Ukraine (All locations) Uzbekistan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Mongolia (Some locations)	12:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 9 Sat	Syria (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 18 Mon	Albania (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 24 Sun	South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 24 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 8 Sun	Cuba (All locations) Haiti (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 21 Sat	Guatemala (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
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
1984	first half of 1984	second half of 1984
1985	first half of 1985	second half of 1985

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1983

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