Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2008

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 2008.

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 2008 or the overview over start and end times for 2008 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 17 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Sat	Antarctica (Troll Station)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 9 Sun	Argentina (Some locations) Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 9 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 1:01 am (Forward)
Mar 9 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Mar 9 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Greenland (Pituffik) Saint Pierre and Miquelon (All locations) Turks and Caicos Islands (All locations) United States (All locations which are observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 16 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Argentina (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 16 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 16 Sun	Antarctica (Troll Station)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Fri	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 28 Fri	Israel (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 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	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) United Kingdom (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
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) 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) Tunisia (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Sun	Australia (Some 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 (Sukhumi) Greece (All locations) Latvia (All locations) Lithuania (All locations) Romania (All locations) Turkey (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 4 Fri	Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 6 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Apr 6 Sun	Mexico (All locations which are observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 6 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Apr 6 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
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)
Jun 1 Sun	Morocco (All locations) Pakistan (All locations) Western Sahara (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
2006	first half of 2006	second half of 2006
2007	first half of 2007	second half of 2007
2008	first half of 2008	second half of 2008
2009	first half of 2009	second half of 2009
2010	first half of 2010	second half of 2010

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2008

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