Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2005

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 2005.

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 2005 or the overview over start and end times for 2005 sorted by country.

Date	Country	Local Time Change
Feb 20 Sun	Brazil (All locations which are observing DST)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 1 Tue	Antarctica (Troll Station)	1:00 am → 2:00 am (Forward)
Mar 12 Sat	Chile (Some locations)	10:00 pm → 9:00 pm (Back)
Mar 13 Sun	Antarctica (Palmer Station) Chile (Most locations) Paraguay (All locations)	12:00 am → 11:00 pm (Back)
Mar 20 Sun	Antarctica (Some locations observing DST) New Zealand (Most locations)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 20 Sun	New Zealand (Some locations)	3:45 am → 2:45 am (Back)
Mar 22 Tue	Iran (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 26 Sat	Mongolia (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 26 Sat	Greenland (Most locations observing DST)	10:00 pm → 11:00 pm (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Greenland (Ittoqqortoormiit) Lebanon (All locations) Portugal (Some locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 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 27 Sun	Uruguay (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Mar 27 Sun	Australia (Lord Howe Island)	2:00 am → 1:30 am (Back)
Mar 27 Sun	Albania (All locations) Andorra (All locations) Antarctica (Troll Station) 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) Vatican City (Holy See) (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Kyrgyzstan (All locations)	2:30 am → 3:30 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Australia (Most locations observing DST)	3:00 am → 2:00 am (Back)
Mar 27 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) Ukraine (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Mar 27 Sun	Azerbaijan (All locations)	4:00 am → 5:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Jordan (All locations) Syria (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Israel (All locations)	2:00 am → 3:00 am (Forward)
Apr 1 Fri	Iraq (All locations)	3:00 am → 4:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Haiti (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Canada (Some locations observing DST)	12:01 am → 1:01 am (Forward)
Apr 3 Sun	Namibia (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 3 Sun	The Bahamas (All locations) Bermuda (All locations) Canada (Most locations observing DST) Greenland (Thule Air Base) 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 10 Sun	Nicaragua (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 15 Fri	Palestine (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
Apr 17 Sun	Falkland Islands (All locations)	2:00 am → 1:00 am (Back)
Apr 29 Fri	Egypt (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)
May 1 Sun	Tunisia (All locations)	12:00 am → 1:00 am (Forward)

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

Daylight Saving Time–First Half of 2005

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