See The World Clock for list of current times around the world, and which places are observing DST at the moment (marked by * in The World Clock).
Daylight saving time is also called summer time or daylight savings 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 over which countries that observed DST during second half of 2008.
This table is sorted by UTC time, in the order the changes occur.
Click on the example links for more details on the clock change.
Also see the page for first half of 2008 or another page which an overview over start and end times for 2008, sorted by country.
| Local time change | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time in UTC | Change from | direction | Change to | Country affected | Example locations |
| Aug 28 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Thu-Fri | back to | Thu 11:00 PM | Egypt - All locations | Cairo |
| Gaza Strip - All locations | Gaza | ||||
| Aug 31 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | back to | Sun 11:00 PM | West Bank - All locations | Bethlehem |
| Aug 31 at 23:00:00 | Midnight Sun-Mon | back to | Sun 11:00 PM | Morocco - All locations | Casablanca |
| Western Sahara - All locations | El Aaiún | ||||
| Sep 7 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Namibia - All locations | Windhoek |
| Sep 7 at 06:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Falkland Islands - All locations | Stanley |
| Sep 20 at 19:30:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Iran - All locations | Tehran |
| Sep 27 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Antarctica - Some of locations observing DST | South Pole |
| New Zealand - Most locations | Auckland Wellington | ||||
| Sep 27 at 14:00:00 | Sun 2:45 AM | forward to | Sun 3:45 AM | New Zealand - Some locations | Chatham Islands |
| Oct 4 at 15:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 2:30 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Lord Howe Island (Lord Howe Island) |
| Oct 4 at 16:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Most of locations observing DST | Canberra (Australian Capital Territory) Hobart (Tasmania) Melbourne (Victoria) Sydney (New South Wales) |
| Oct 4 at 16:30:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Adelaide (South Australia) |
| Oct 4 at 23:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Israel - All locations | Jerusalem Tel Aviv |
| Oct 5 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Uruguay - All locations | Montevideo |
| Oct 12 at 04:00:00 | Sat 10:00 PM | forward to | Sat 11:00 PM | Chile - Some locations | Easter Island |
| Oct 12 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Chile - Most locations | Santiago |
| Oct 19 at 03:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Argentina - All of locations observing DST | Buenos Aires |
| Brazil - Most of locations observing DST | Brasilia (Distrito Federal) Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) Sao Paulo (São Paulo) | ||||
| Oct 19 at 04:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | forward to | Sun 1:00 AM | Brazil - Some of locations observing DST | Campo Grande (Mato Grosso Do Sul) |
| Paraguay - All locations | Asuncion | ||||
| Oct 25 at 14:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Anadyr Kamchatka |
| Oct 25 at 15:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Magadan |
| Oct 25 at 16:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Vladivostok |
| Oct 25 at 17:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Yakutsk |
| Oct 25 at 17:15:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Eucla (Western Australia) |
| Oct 25 at 18:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Australia - Some of locations observing DST | Perth (Western Australia) |
| Oct 25 at 18:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Irkutsk |
| Oct 25 at 19:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Krasnoyarsk |
| Oct 25 at 20:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Novosibirsk Omsk |
| Oct 25 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Sat-Sun | back to | Sat 11:00 PM | Lebanon - All locations | Beirut |
| Oct 25 at 21:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Chelyabinsk Perm Ufa Yekaterinburg |
| Oct 25 at 22:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | forward to | Sun 3:00 AM | Mauritius - All locations | Port Louis |
| Oct 25 at 22:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Armenia - All locations | Yerevan |
| Russian Federation - Some locations | Samara | ||||
| Oct 25 at 23:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Russian Federation - Some locations | Kazan Moscow Murmansk Novgorod Saint-Petersburg |
| Oct 26 at 00:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Belarus - All locations | Minsk |
| Russian Federation - Some locations | Kaliningrad | ||||
| Oct 26 at 00:00:00 | Sun 5:00 AM | back to | Sun 4:00 AM | Azerbaijan - All locations | Baku |
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sat 11:00 PM | back to | Sat 10:00 PM | Greenland - Some locations | Nuuk |
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Sat-Sun | Greenland - Some locations | Ittoqqortoormiit |
| Portugal - Some locations | Azores | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Faroe Islands - All locations | Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) |
| Ireland - All locations | Dublin | ||||
| Isle of Man - All locations | Douglas | ||||
| Portugal - Most locations | Lisbon | ||||
| Spain - Some locations | Las Palmas (Canary Islands) | ||||
| United Kingdom - All locations | Belfast (Northern Ireland) Cardiff (Wales) Glasgow (Scotland) London (England) | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 3:00 AM | back to | Sun 2:00 AM | Albania - All locations | Tirane |
| Andorra - All locations | Andorra La Vella | ||||
| Austria - All locations | Vienna | ||||
| Belgium - All locations | Brussels | ||||
| Bosnia-Herzegovina - All locations | Sarajevo | ||||
| Croatia - All locations | Zagreb | ||||
| Czech Republic - All locations | Prague | ||||
| Denmark - All locations | Copenhagen | ||||
| France - All of locations observing DST | Paris | ||||
| Germany - All locations | Berlin (Berlin) Frankfurt (Hesse) | ||||
| Gibraltar - All locations | Gibraltar | ||||
| Hungary - All locations | Budapest | ||||
| Italy - All locations | Rome | ||||
| Kosovo - All locations | Pristina | ||||
| Liechtenstein - All locations | Vaduz | ||||
| Luxembourg - All locations | Luxembourg | ||||
| Macedonia - All locations | Skopje | ||||
| Malta - All locations | Valletta | ||||
| Monaco - All locations | Monaco | ||||
| Montenegro - All locations | Podgorica | ||||
| Netherlands - All of locations observing DST | Amsterdam | ||||
| Norway - All locations | Oslo | ||||
| Poland - All locations | Warsaw | ||||
| San Marino - All locations | San Marino | ||||
| Serbia - All locations | Belgrade | ||||
| Slovak Republic - All locations | Bratislava | ||||
| Slovenia - All locations | Ljubljana | ||||
| Spain - Most locations | Barcelona (Barcelona) Madrid Palma (Majorca) | ||||
| Sweden - All locations | Stockholm | ||||
| Switzerland - All locations | Bern Geneva Zürich | ||||
| Tunisia - All locations | Tunis | ||||
| Vatican City State - All locations | Vatican City | ||||
| Oct 26 at 01:00:00 | Sun 4:00 AM | back to | Sun 3:00 AM | Bulgaria - All locations | Sofia |
| Cyprus - All locations | Nicosia | ||||
| Estonia - All locations | Tallinn | ||||
| Finland - All locations | Helsinki | ||||
| Greece - All locations | Athens | ||||
| Latvia - All locations | Riga | ||||
| Lithuania - All locations | Vilnius | ||||
| Moldova - All locations | Chisinau | ||||
| Romania - All locations | Bucharest | ||||
| Turkey - All locations | Ankara Istanbul | ||||
| Ukraine - All locations | Kyiv Odesa | ||||
| Oct 26 at 05:00:00 | Sun 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Sat-Sun | Cuba - All locations | Havana |
| Oct 26 at 07:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mexico - Most of locations observing DST | Acapulco (Guerrero) Aguascalientes (Aguascalientes) Guadalajara (Jalisco) Mexico City (Federal District) Veracruz (Veracruz) |
| Oct 26 at 08:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mazatlan (Sinaloa) |
| Oct 26 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Mexico - Some of locations observing DST | Mexicali (Baja California) Tijuana (Baja California) |
| Oct 30 at 22:00:00 | Fri 1:00 AM | back to | Midnight Thu-Fri | Jordan - All locations | Amman |
| Oct 31 at 18:00:00 | Midnight Fri-Sat | back to | Fri 11:00 PM | Pakistan - All locations | Islamabad Karachi Lahore |
| Oct 31 at 21:00:00 | Midnight Fri-Sat | back to | Fri 11:00 PM | Syria - All locations | Damascus |
| Nov 2 at 02:31:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | back to | Sat 11:01 PM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | St. John's (Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Nov 2 at 03:01:00 | Sun 12:01 AM | back to | Sat 11:01 PM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Happy Valley-Goose Bay (Newfoundland and Labrador) |
| Nov 2 at 04:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Saint Pierre and Miquelon - All locations | Saint-Pierre |
| Nov 2 at 05:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Bermuda Islands - All locations | Hamilton |
| Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Halifax (Nova Scotia) | ||||
| Greenland - Some locations | Qaanaaq | ||||
| Nov 2 at 06:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Bahamas - All locations | Nassau |
| Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Montreal (Quebec) Ottawa (Ontario) Québec (Quebec) Toronto (Ontario) | ||||
| Turks and Caicos Islands - All locations | Cockburn Town | ||||
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Atlanta (Georgia) Augusta (Maine) Baltimore (Maryland) Boston (Massachusetts) Columbia (South Carolina) Columbus (Ohio) Concord (New Hampshire) Detroit (Michigan) Hartford (Connecticut) Indianapolis (Indiana) Louisville (Kentucky) Miami (Florida) Montpelier (Vermont) New York (New York) Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) Raleigh (North Carolina) Richmond (Virginia) Washington DC (District of Columbia) | ||||
| Nov 2 at 07:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Winnipeg (Manitoba) |
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Austin (Texas) Bismarck (North Dakota) Chicago (Illinois) Dallas (Texas) Des Moines (Iowa) Houston (Texas) Jackson (Mississippi) Lincoln (Nebraska) Little Rock (Arkansas) Madison (Wisconsin) Minneapolis (Minnesota) Montgomery (Alabama) Nashville (Tennessee) New Orleans (Louisiana) Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) Sioux Falls (South Dakota) St. Louis (Missouri) St. Paul (Minnesota) Topeka (Kansas) | ||||
| Nov 2 at 08:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Calgary (Alberta) Edmonton (Alberta) Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) |
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Albuquerque (New Mexico) Billings (Montana) Boise (Idaho) Cheyenne (Wyoming) Denver (Colorado) Rapid City (South Dakota) Salt Lake City (Utah) | ||||
| Nov 2 at 09:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | Canada - Some of locations observing DST | Vancouver (British Columbia) Whitehorse (Yukon Territory) |
| United States - Some of locations observing DST | Las Vegas (Nevada) Los Angeles (California) Sacramento (California) Salem (Oregon) San Diego (California) San Francisco (California) San Jose (California) Seattle (Washington) | ||||
| Nov 2 at 10:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Anchorage (Alaska) |
| Nov 2 at 11:00:00 | Sun 2:00 AM | back to | Sun 1:00 AM | United States - Some of locations observing DST | Adak (Alaska) |
| 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 |