Daylight Saving Time–Second 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 second 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 first half of 1997 or the overview over start and end times for 1997 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Sep 7 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Sep 14 Sun	Israel (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 14 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Sep 19 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Sep 22 Mon	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 26 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Sep 28 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Lebanon (All locations) Mongolia (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 1 Wed	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 1 Wed	Iraq (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
Oct 4 Sat	Libya (All locations)	12:00 am → 12:00 am (No Change)
Oct 5 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 5 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Oct 5 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	2:45 am → 3:45 am (Forward)
Oct 6 Mon	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 11 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Oct 12 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Oct 12 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Oct 25 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	11:00 pm → 10:00 pm (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Georgia (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 11:01 pm (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Portugal (Some locations)	1:00 am → 12:00 am (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Faroe Islands (All locations) Greenland (Pituffik) Guernsey (All locations) Haiti (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) Mexico (Most locations) Portugal (Most locations) Spain (Some locations) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turkey (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Mexico (Some locations)	2:00 am → 2:00 am (No Change)
Oct 26 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 2:30 am (Forward)
Oct 26 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Oct 26 Sun	Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	2:30 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Armenia (All locations) Austria (All locations) Belarus (All locations) Belgium (All locations) Bosnia and Herzegovina (All locations) Canada (Some locations observing DST) 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 (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)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Åland Islands (All locations) Bulgaria (All locations) Finland (All locations) Georgia (Some locations) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Romania (All locations) Ukraine (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
Oct 26 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	5:00 am → 4:00 am (Back)

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–Second Half of 1997

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