Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2012

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 2012.

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 2012 or the overview over start and end times for 2012 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Jan 22 Sun	Fiji (All locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Feb 26 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Thu	Antarctica (Troll Station)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 11 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Mar 11 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (All locations which are observing DST) Greenland (Pituffik) Haiti (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) 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 18 Sun	Antarctica (Troll Station)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Wed	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 24 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 25 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 25 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 25 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Austria (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) 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 25 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 25 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations which are observing DST)	4:00 am → 5:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Palestine (All locations) Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 30 Fri	Israel (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 1 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Apr 1 Sun	Mexico (Most locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (Most locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Apr 1 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Apr 1 Sun	Samoa (All locations)	4:00 am → 3:00 am (Back)
Apr 8 Sun	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 28 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Apr 29 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Apr 29 Sun	Morocco (All locations) Western Sahara (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
2010	first half of 2010	second half of 2010
2011	first half of 2011	second half of 2011
2012	first half of 2012	second half of 2012
2013	first half of 2013	second half of 2013
2014	first half of 2014	second half of 2014

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2012

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