Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1978

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 1978.

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 1978 or the overview over start and end times for 1978 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 27 Mon	New Caledonia (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Wed	Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 5 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 5 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) Australia (All locations which are observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 5 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 11 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	9:00 pm → 8:00 pm (Back)
Mar 12 Sun	Chile (Most locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 19 Sun	Guernsey (All locations) Ireland (All locations) Isle of Man (All locations) Jersey (All locations) United Kingdom (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 21 Tue	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 22 Wed	Philippines (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 24 Fri	Algeria (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 2 Sun	Cyprus (All locations) Portugal (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 2 Sun	Poland (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Apr 2 Sun	Belgium (All locations) France (All locations which are observing DST) Greece (All locations) Luxembourg (All locations) Monaco (All locations) Netherlands (All locations which are observing DST) Spain (Most locations observing DST) Turkey (Some locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 16 Sun	Barbados (All locations) Malta (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 30 Sun	Jordan (All locations) Lebanon (All locations) South Sudan (All locations) Sudan (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 30 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Some locations observing DST) Jamaica (All locations) Mexico (Some locations observing DST) United States (Some locations observing DST)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Mon	Tunisia (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Mon	Egypt (All locations)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Mon	Syria (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
May 6 Sat	Albania (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 7 Sun	Cuba (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 28 Sun	Italy (All locations) San Marino (All locations) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Jun 1 Thu	Morocco (All locations) Spain (Some locations observing DST) Western Sahara (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Jun 29 Thu	Turkey (Some locations)	12:00 am → 12:00 am (No Change)

Daylight Saving Time for other years
Yearly Overview	January–June	July–December
1976	first half of 1976	second half of 1976
1977	first half of 1977	second half of 1977
1978	first half of 1978	second half of 1978
1979	first half of 1979	second half of 1979
1980	first half of 1980	second half of 1980

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 1978

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