Argentina Starts Daylight Saving Time on December 30, 2007

Published 21-Dec-2007. Changed 27-Dec-2007

People appreciate the extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon during daylight saving time.

Woman laying in grass looking up at blue sky. — Argentina Starts Daylight Saving Time on December 30, 2007
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All of Argentina will turn clocks one hour ahead at the start of December 30, 2007. The clocks will be turned back one hour when March 16, 2008 is about to start.

Why daylight saving time will be used

Daylight Saving Time will be observed in order to save energy. It is likely to be used next year as well, from October to March.

Official announcement

The official law is available in Spanish on the Senate web site - EXPEDIENTE NUMERO 599/07.

Dates of daylight saving time 1988–2008

These are the dates Daylight Saving Time started and ended in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 1988. Note that some states of Argentina have made other time zone changes to their clocks that are not shown in the list below.

Current Local Times Around the World
Accra	Sat 12:05 am	Casablanca *	Sat 1:05 am	Kolkata	Sat 5:35 am	Reykjavik	Sat 12:05 am
Addis Ababa	Sat 3:05 am	Chicago	Fri 6:05 pm	Kuala Lumpur	Sat 8:05 am	Rio de Janeiro	Fri 9:05 pm
Adelaide *	Sat 10:35 am	Copenhagen	Sat 1:05 am	Kuwait City	Sat 3:05 am	Riyadh	Sat 3:05 am
Algiers	Sat 1:05 am	Dallas	Fri 6:05 pm	Kyiv	Sat 2:05 am	Rome	Sat 1:05 am
Almaty	Sat 6:05 am	Dar es Salaam	Sat 3:05 am	La Paz	Fri 8:05 pm	Salt Lake City	Fri 5:05 pm
Amman	Sat 2:05 am	Darwin	Sat 9:35 am	Lagos	Sat 1:05 am	San Francisco	Fri 4:05 pm
Amsterdam	Sat 1:05 am	Denver	Fri 5:05 pm	Lahore	Sat 5:05 am	San Juan	Fri 8:05 pm
Anadyr	Sat 12:05 pm	Detroit	Fri 7:05 pm	Las Vegas	Fri 4:05 pm	San Salvador	Fri 6:05 pm
Anchorage	Fri 3:05 pm	Dhaka	Sat 6:05 am	Lima	Fri 7:05 pm	Santiago *	Fri 9:05 pm
Ankara	Sat 3:05 am	Doha	Sat 3:05 am	Lisbon	Sat 12:05 am	Santo Domingo	Fri 8:05 pm
Antananarivo	Sat 3:05 am	Dubai	Sat 4:05 am	London	Sat 12:05 am	São Paulo	Fri 9:05 pm
Asuncion *	Fri 9:05 pm	Dublin	Sat 12:05 am	Los Angeles	Fri 4:05 pm	Seattle	Fri 4:05 pm
Athens	Sat 2:05 am	Edmonton	Fri 5:05 pm	Madrid	Sat 1:05 am	Seoul	Sat 9:05 am
Atlanta	Fri 7:05 pm	Frankfurt	Sat 1:05 am	Managua	Fri 6:05 pm	Shanghai	Sat 8:05 am
Auckland *	Sat 1:05 pm	Guatemala City	Fri 6:05 pm	Manila	Sat 8:05 am	Singapore	Sat 8:05 am
Baghdad	Sat 3:05 am	Halifax	Fri 8:05 pm	Melbourne *	Sat 11:05 am	Sofia	Sat 2:05 am
Bangkok	Sat 7:05 am	Hanoi	Sat 7:05 am	Mexico City	Fri 6:05 pm	St. John's	Fri 8:35 pm
Barcelona	Sat 1:05 am	Harare	Sat 2:05 am	Miami	Fri 7:05 pm	Stockholm	Sat 1:05 am
Beijing	Sat 8:05 am	Havana	Fri 7:05 pm	Minneapolis	Fri 6:05 pm	Suva	Sat 12:05 pm
Beirut	Sat 2:05 am	Helsinki	Sat 2:05 am	Minsk	Sat 3:05 am	Sydney *	Sat 11:05 am
Belgrade	Sat 1:05 am	Hong Kong	Sat 8:05 am	Montevideo	Fri 9:05 pm	Taipei	Sat 8:05 am
Bengaluru	Sat 5:35 am	Honolulu	Fri 2:05 pm	Montréal	Fri 7:05 pm	Tallinn	Sat 2:05 am
Berlin	Sat 1:05 am	Houston	Fri 6:05 pm	Moscow	Sat 3:05 am	Tashkent	Sat 5:05 am
Bogota	Fri 7:05 pm	Indianapolis	Fri 7:05 pm	Mumbai	Sat 5:35 am	Tegucigalpa	Fri 6:05 pm
Boston	Fri 7:05 pm	Islamabad	Sat 5:05 am	Nairobi	Sat 3:05 am	Tehran	Sat 3:35 am
Brasilia	Fri 9:05 pm	Istanbul	Sat 3:05 am	Nassau	Fri 7:05 pm	Tokyo	Sat 9:05 am
Brisbane	Sat 10:05 am	Jakarta	Sat 7:05 am	New Delhi	Sat 5:35 am	Toronto	Fri 7:05 pm
Brussels	Sat 1:05 am	Jerusalem	Sat 2:05 am	New Orleans	Fri 6:05 pm	Vancouver	Fri 4:05 pm
Bucharest	Sat 2:05 am	Johannesburg	Sat 2:05 am	New York	Fri 7:05 pm	Vienna	Sat 1:05 am
Budapest	Sat 1:05 am	Kabul	Sat 4:35 am	Oslo	Sat 1:05 am	Warsaw	Sat 1:05 am
Buenos Aires	Fri 9:05 pm	Karachi	Sat 5:05 am	Ottawa	Fri 7:05 pm	Washington DC	Fri 7:05 pm
Cairo	Sat 2:05 am	Kathmandu	Sat 5:50 am	Paris	Sat 1:05 am	Winnipeg	Fri 6:05 pm
Calgary	Fri 5:05 pm	Khartoum	Sat 2:05 am	Perth	Sat 8:05 am	Yangon	Sat 6:35 am
Canberra *	Sat 11:05 am	Kingston	Fri 7:05 pm	Philadelphia	Fri 7:05 pm	Zagreb	Sat 1:05 am
Cape Town	Sat 2:05 am	Kinshasa	Sat 1:05 am	Phoenix	Fri 5:05 pm	Zürich	Sat 1:05 am
Caracas	Fri 8:05 pm	Kiritimati	Sat 2:05 pm	Prague	Sat 1:05 am

* Adjusted for Daylight Saving Time (8 places).

Fri = Friday, December 3, 2021 (52 places).
Sat = Saturday, December 4, 2021 (91 places).

UTC (GMT/Zulu)-time: Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 00:05:51

UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.

Argentina Starts Daylight Saving Time on December 30, 2007

Why daylight saving time will be used

Official announcement

Dates of daylight saving time 1988–2008

Current Local Times Around the World