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
Feb 16 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 8 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 9 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (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 22 Sat	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Fri	Jordan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Fri	Israel (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sat	Mongolia (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 29 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Georgia (Most locations) Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (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	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 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) 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)	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) 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)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	4:00 am → 5:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Tue	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Tue	Iraq (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
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	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 which are observing DST) 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 18 Fri	Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 20 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (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
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

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2003

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