Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2003

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 2003.

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 2003 or the overview over start and end times for 2003 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
16 Feb Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	00:00 → 23:00 (Back)
8 Mar Sat	Chile (Some locations)	22:00 → 21:00 (Back)
9 Mar Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	00:00 → 23:00 (Back)
16 Mar Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	03:00 → 02:00 (Back)
16 Mar Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	03:45 → 02:45 (Back)
22 Mar Sat	Iran (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
28 Mar Fri	Jordan (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
28 Mar Fri	Israel (All locations)	01:00 → 02:00 (Forward)
29 Mar Sat	Mongolia (All locations)	02:00 → 03:00 (Forward)
29 Mar Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	22:00 → 23:00 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Georgia (Most locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (Most locations) Spain (Some locations) Turkey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	01:00 → 02:00 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	02:00 → 01:30 (Back)
30 Mar Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Armenia (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Croatia (All locations) Czechia (All locations) Denmark (All locations) France (All locations) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Netherlands (All locations) Norway (All locations) Poland (All locations) North Macedonia (All locations) Russia (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Serbia (All locations) Slovakia (All locations) Slovenia (All locations) Spain (Most locations) Sweden (All locations) Switzerland (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	02:00 → 03:00 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	02:30 → 03:30 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	03:00 → 02:00 (Back)
30 Mar Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Estonia (All locations) Finland (All locations) Georgia (Some locations) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (All locations)	03:00 → 04:00 (Forward)
30 Mar Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	04:00 → 05:00 (Forward)
1 Apr Tue	Syria (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
1 Apr Tue	Iraq (All locations)	03:00 → 04:00 (Forward)
6 Apr Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	00:00 → 23:00 (Back)
6 Apr Sun	Cuba (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
6 Apr Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	00:01 → 01:01 (Forward)
6 Apr Sun	Namibia (All locations)	02:00 → 01:00 (Back)
6 Apr Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Greenland (Thule Air Base) Mexico (All locations which are observing DST) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	02:00 → 03:00 (Forward)
18 Apr Fri	Palestinian Territories (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)
20 Apr Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	02:00 → 01:00 (Back)
25 Apr Fri	Egypt (All locations)	00:00 → 01:00 (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
2001	first half of 2001	second half of 2001
2002	first half of 2002	second half of 2002
2003	first half of 2003	second half of 2003
2004	first half of 2004	second half of 2004
2005	first half of 2005	second half of 2005

Other years

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