Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1997

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 1997.

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 1997 or the overview over start and end times for 1997 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 16 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Feb 23 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 2 Sun	New Caledonia (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 21 Fri	Israel (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 22 Sat	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 29 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 30 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Mongolia (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 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)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 30 Sun	Russia (Some locations)	2:00 am → 2:00 am (No Change)
Mar 30 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) 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) Liechtenstein (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Malta (All locations) Moldova (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 (Most 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)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	2:30 am → 3:30 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 30 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Finland (All locations) Georgia (Sukhumi) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (Most locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Ukraine (Some locations)	4:00 am → 4:00 am (No Change)
Mar 30 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	4:00 am → 5:00 am (Forward)
Mar 31 Mon	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Tue	Iraq (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 4 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Libya (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 1:01 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Haiti (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 6 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 20 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 25 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
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
1999	first half of 1999	second half of 1999

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1997

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