About one third of all countries observe Daylight Saving Time (DST), also called ‘summer time’. This is a seasonal change of the clock: moving one hour forward to get longer daylight in the evenings of the summer months. Or in other words your clock: springs forward (1 hour ahead in spring time) and falls back (return to standard time zone in the fall or autumn time of the year).
Start and end dates of daylight saving are government decisions. This resulted in fifteen different DST periods, which can change every year.
On top of the time zone differences, daylight saving time makes it even harder to correctly calculate what time it is in places in another country or continent.
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London, England, observes the European summer time from the last Sunday in March until the Saturday before the last Sunday in October.
Sydney, Australia is the capital of New South Walies, one of the states that does observe daylight saving: from the first Sunday in October until the Saturday before the first Sunday in April. This is a totally different period than in Europe, because the summer months are different on the Southen Hemisphere.
End of January means winter time in London but still summer time in Sydney. Despite that both Brisbane and Sydney are on the east coast of Australia, Sydney is one hour ahead due to its daylight saving time.
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Now London has summer time, which started on the last Sunday in March. Because the clocks changed in London, the time difference with Lagos disappeared.
At the end of April, winter time has started in Sydney but in London it is still summer time, until October. Moving the clock back one hour from summer to winter time, Sydney has decreased its time difference with London by another hour.
You see that these four cities can have two, three or four different local times, depending on their time zone plus summer time, the latter depending on the date. This make calculating the local time in another country or state very complicated. To save time and embarrasment, you better leave this to a reliable website or app.
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Our new Horzono world clock app offers you the correct local times of over 10, 000 locations on the globe. Also in areas without Wifi or mobile internet. All time zone and daylight saving math is handled automatically behind the scenes.
Apart from acting as a world clock, Horzono also visualizes how time zones relate and overlap: see the above screen shots. You can compare up to 10 cities for free.Australia has multiple time zones. Some of them are half-hour and quarter-hour time zones. Not all states and territories use Daylight Saving Time (DST).
Time zones are defined by their offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Australia's offsets range from UTC+8 to UTC+11. Some of them are half-hour and quarter-hour time zones.
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Broken Hill is in New South Wales, but uses Australian Central Standard Time (ACST) which is 30 minutes behind the rest of the state.
Eucla in Western Australia is 45 minutes ahead of the rest of the state. It has its own time zone called Australian Central Western Standard Time (ACWST).
Not all states and territories in Australia use Daylight Saving Time (DST). The states that use DST are the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, and Victoria.
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DST starts at 02:00 (2am) on first Sunday of October, when the clocks move forward by 1 hour to 03:00 (3am) local time. DST ends at 03:00 (3am) when the clocks move back to 02:00 (2am) local time on the first Sunday of April.
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Time Zones in Indiana In Indiana, USA, there are are two time zones: Central Time and Eastern Time. All counties set their clocks one hour to and from Daylight Saving Time (DST) twice a year. Indiana time zone map with local time in each county.
GMT or BST in the UK? The UK is not on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) all year. During Daylight Saving Time the correct time zone is British Summer Time (BST).
No DST in Most of Arizona Most of the US state of Arizona does not use Daylight Saving Time (DST). The exception is the Navajo Nation.
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