Time Zone News

Greece will set its clock one hour forward on March 28, 2021, Sunday,  to observe the Daylight Saving Time. From 03:00, the clocks will be forwarded to 4:00. Greece is only one of the many countries that observe DST, even though some people are against it.  In the last two years, the European Par... read more

Israel has started Daylight Saving Time on Friday, March 26, 2021, at two o'clock in the morning. This means that the country set its clock one hour forward, also known as spring forward. Since Israel is now following Daylight Saving Time, the country will have a seven-hour difference from the Eas... read more

Switzerland will spring forward its clock on Sunday, March 28, 2021, at two o'clock in the morning. This will mark the beginning of summertime in the country, popularly known as Daylight Saving Time. Switzerland will remain on DST until the end of October this year. Many countries have already swi... read more

Last Sunday, Washington, including other states and countries, set their clock one hour forward following the Daylight Saving Time. Those who support DST are glad to start the clock change this year. But lawmakers felt the counterpart as they hoped that it would be the last 'spring forward' for th... read more

The State lawmakers in the House and Senate of Georgia introduced a bill to end time change in the state. Rep. Wes Cantrell, R-Woodstock has introduced legislation that will stop people from changing their clocks twice a year, particularly during March and November. Once this bill becomes a law, t... read more

North Dakota senators passed a  new bill on Monday, February 8, to make Daylight Saving Time (DST) permanent. The proponents believe that approving this law will eliminate the inconvenient clock changing that happens twice a year. Not only that but having a permanent DST in the state can help peop... read more

A group of Connecticut legislators supports the bill to move the northeast of the United States off the Eastern Standard Time (est). If the bill is approved, Connecticut would be using the Atlantic Standard Time. This will lead to observing Daylight Saving Time for 12 months. According to Cathy O... read more

  In the midnight of February first this year, South Sudan will change its time zone from East Africa Time (EAT)  to Central Africa Time (CAT). Its neighbor, Sudan, currently use CAT. The shift in time zone will make South Sudan two hours ahead of Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). But right now, ... read more

The Regional Duma’s proposal of changing the Volgograd Region’s time zone was approved on December 16 by the Russian Federation's State Duma. At the plenary session, the senators considered the federal time law amendment, wherein the senators had considered 41 questions. Oleg Tkach, a representati... read more

Jeremy Roberts, MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean, has submitted a bill in October pleading for an end to the traditional practice of clock changing. This private members’ bill calls for an end to Daylight Saving Time has passed the third reading in the legislature. The Time Amendment Act (Bill 214) receiv... read more

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