Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1996

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 1996.

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 1996 or the overview over start and end times for 1996 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 11 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Fri	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 9 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 10 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 15 Fri	Israel (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 17 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 17 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 21 Thu	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 31 Sun	Bulgaria (All locations) Cyprus (All locations) Georgia (Most locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Moldova (All locations) Mongolia (All locations) Portugal (Some locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Sun	Faroe Islands (All locations) Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Portugal (Some locations) Spain (Some locations) Turkey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 31 Sun	Portugal (Most locations)	2:00 am → 2:00 am (No Change)
Mar 31 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (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) Estonia (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Germany (All locations) Gibraltar (All locations) Hungary (All locations) Italy (All locations) Kazakhstan (All locations) Kosovo (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Liechtenstein (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Montenegro (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) 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) Ukraine (Most locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 31 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Finland (All locations) Georgia (Some locations) Greece (All locations) Ukraine (Some locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	5:00 am → 6:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Mon	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Mon	Iraq (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 5 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 7 Sun	Cuba (All locations) Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 7 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 1:01 am (Forward)
Apr 7 Sun	Haiti (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 7 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 7 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Greenland (Pituffik) Mexico (All locations) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 21 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 26 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
1994	first half of 1994	second half of 1994
1995	first half of 1995	second half of 1995
1996	first half of 1996	second half of 1996
1997	first half of 1997	second half of 1997
1998	first half of 1998	second half of 1998

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1996

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