Syria’s Daylight Saving Starts on March 27, 2009
Syria will observe daylight saving time on 27 March, 2009.
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Syria Starts DST on March 27, 2009
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Syria will start daylight saving time at midnight (00:00) between Thursday, March 26, and Friday, March 27, in 2009. The Presidency of the Council of Ministers recently issued a communiqué to confirm this arrangement, also known as “summer time”, which will see the clocks move one hour forward.
2009 Daylight Saving Schedule
Syria will observe Eastern European Summer Time (EEST), which is three hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or UTC +3 hours, during the 2009 daylight saving schedule. The 2009 daylight saving arrangement is a few days earlier than the 2008 daylight saving schedule, which started at midnight (00:00) between April 3 and April 4, 2008.
Syria observes daylight saving time to save energy during country’s summer months. The Ministry of Electricity had suggested daylight saving time in Syria to begin on the above-mentioned dates for 2009. Interestingly, the ministry also discussed at a recent Cabinet meeting a memo on the expected demand for energy in 2009 and upcoming years.
The daylight saving arrangement is expected to end at midnight (00:00) between the Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, November 1, when the clocks will move back by one hour to 11pm (or 23:00) on Saturday, October 31. However, the end date has not yet been confirmed.
Time Zone
Syria is on Eastern European Time (EET), which is UTC +2 hours, during the non-daylight saving schedule. The nation moves the hour forward by one hour to EEST (UTC +3 hours), when it observes daylight saving time.
Dates of Daylight Saving Time 1983–2009
These are the dates Daylight Saving Time started and ended in Syria since 1983.
Current Local Times Around the World | |||||||
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Accra | Thu 7:05 am | Casablanca * | Thu 8:05 am | Kolkata | Thu 12:35 pm | Reykjavik | Thu 7:05 am |
Addis Ababa | Thu 10:05 am | Chicago * | Thu 2:05 am | Kuala Lumpur | Thu 3:05 pm | Rio de Janeiro | Thu 4:05 am |
Adelaide | Thu 4:35 pm | Copenhagen * | Thu 9:05 am | Kuwait City | Thu 10:05 am | Riyadh | Thu 10:05 am |
Algiers | Thu 8:05 am | Dallas * | Thu 2:05 am | Kyiv * | Thu 10:05 am | Rome * | Thu 9:05 am |
Almaty | Thu 1:05 pm | Dar es Salaam | Thu 10:05 am | La Paz | Thu 3:05 am | Salt Lake City * | Thu 1:05 am |
Amman * | Thu 10:05 am | Darwin | Thu 4:35 pm | Lagos | Thu 8:05 am | San Francisco * | Thu 12:05 am |
Amsterdam * | Thu 9:05 am | Denver * | Thu 1:05 am | Lahore | Thu 12:05 pm | San Juan | Thu 3:05 am |
Anadyr | Thu 7:05 pm | Detroit * | Thu 3:05 am | Las Vegas * | Thu 12:05 am | San Salvador | Thu 1:05 am |
Anchorage * | Wed 11:05 pm | Dhaka | Thu 1:05 pm | Lima | Thu 2:05 am | Santiago | Thu 3:05 am |
Ankara | Thu 10:05 am | Doha | Thu 10:05 am | Lisbon * | Thu 8:05 am | Santo Domingo | Thu 3:05 am |
Antananarivo | Thu 10:05 am | Dubai | Thu 11:05 am | London * | Thu 8:05 am | São Paulo | Thu 4:05 am |
Asuncion | Thu 3:05 am | Dublin * | Thu 8:05 am | Los Angeles * | Thu 12:05 am | Seattle * | Thu 12:05 am |
Athens * | Thu 10:05 am | Edmonton * | Thu 1:05 am | Madrid * | Thu 9:05 am | Seoul | Thu 4:05 pm |
Atlanta * | Thu 3:05 am | Frankfurt * | Thu 9:05 am | Managua | Thu 1:05 am | Shanghai | Thu 3:05 pm |
Auckland | Thu 7:05 pm | Guatemala City | Thu 1:05 am | Manila | Thu 3:05 pm | Singapore | Thu 3:05 pm |
Baghdad | Thu 10:05 am | Halifax * | Thu 4:05 am | Melbourne | Thu 5:05 pm | Sofia * | Thu 10:05 am |
Bangkok | Thu 2:05 pm | Hanoi | Thu 2:05 pm | Mexico City * | Thu 2:05 am | St. John's * | Thu 4:35 am |
Barcelona * | Thu 9:05 am | Harare | Thu 9:05 am | Miami * | Thu 3:05 am | Stockholm * | Thu 9:05 am |
Beijing | Thu 3:05 pm | Havana * | Thu 3:05 am | Minneapolis * | Thu 2:05 am | Suva | Thu 7:05 pm |
Beirut * | Thu 10:05 am | Helsinki * | Thu 10:05 am | Minsk | Thu 10:05 am | Sydney | Thu 5:05 pm |
Belgrade * | Thu 9:05 am | Hong Kong | Thu 3:05 pm | Montevideo | Thu 4:05 am | Taipei | Thu 3:05 pm |
Bengaluru | Thu 12:35 pm | Honolulu | Wed 9:05 pm | Montréal * | Thu 3:05 am | Tallinn * | Thu 10:05 am |
Berlin * | Thu 9:05 am | Houston * | Thu 2:05 am | Moscow | Thu 10:05 am | Tashkent | Thu 12:05 pm |
Bogota | Thu 2:05 am | Indianapolis * | Thu 3:05 am | Mumbai | Thu 12:35 pm | Tegucigalpa | Thu 1:05 am |
Boston * | Thu 3:05 am | Islamabad | Thu 12:05 pm | Nairobi | Thu 10:05 am | Tehran * | Thu 11:35 am |
Brasilia | Thu 4:05 am | Istanbul | Thu 10:05 am | Nassau * | Thu 3:05 am | Tokyo | Thu 4:05 pm |
Brisbane | Thu 5:05 pm | Jakarta | Thu 2:05 pm | New Delhi | Thu 12:35 pm | Toronto * | Thu 3:05 am |
Brussels * | Thu 9:05 am | Jerusalem * | Thu 10:05 am | New Orleans * | Thu 2:05 am | Vancouver * | Thu 12:05 am |
Bucharest * | Thu 10:05 am | Johannesburg | Thu 9:05 am | New York * | Thu 3:05 am | Vienna * | Thu 9:05 am |
Budapest * | Thu 9:05 am | Kabul | Thu 11:35 am | Oslo * | Thu 9:05 am | Warsaw * | Thu 9:05 am |
Buenos Aires | Thu 4:05 am | Karachi | Thu 12:05 pm | Ottawa * | Thu 3:05 am | Washington DC * | Thu 3:05 am |
Cairo | Thu 9:05 am | Kathmandu | Thu 12:50 pm | Paris * | Thu 9:05 am | Winnipeg * | Thu 2:05 am |
Calgary * | Thu 1:05 am | Khartoum | Thu 9:05 am | Perth | Thu 3:05 pm | Yangon | Thu 1:35 pm |
Canberra | Thu 5:05 pm | Kingston | Thu 2:05 am | Philadelphia * | Thu 3:05 am | Zagreb * | Thu 9:05 am |
Cape Town | Thu 9:05 am | Kinshasa | Thu 8:05 am | Phoenix | Thu 12:05 am | Zürich * | Thu 9:05 am |
Caracas | Thu 3:05 am | Kiritimati | Thu 9:05 pm | Prague * | Thu 9:05 am |
* Adjusted for Daylight Saving Time (64 places).
Wed = Wednesday, July 28, 2021 (2 places).
Thu = Thursday, July 29, 2021 (141 places).
UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 07:05:49
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
Great Britain/United Kingdom is one hour ahead of UTC during summer.