Kiwis Start DST on Sunday, September 27, 2015
By Vigdis Hocken. Published 25-Sep-2015
In New Zealand, the clocks are turned forward 1 hour from 2:00 (2 am) to 3:00 (3 am) as the Kiwis start Daylight Saving Time on Sunday, September 27, 2015.
The orange and yellow striped areas use DST. Blue stripes indicate areas with odd UTC offsets (no DST).
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New Zealand starts DST on the last Sunday of September every year.
On Sunday, September 27, 2015, at 2:00 (2 am) NZST clocks are turned forward 1 hour to 3:00 (3 am) NZDT.
One Less Hour of Sleep
Kiwis will lose one hour of night time going into DST, but it will be returned to them in the fall, when DST ends on Sunday, April 3, 2016.
Australia starts DST one week after New Zealand, but the two neighboring countries end DST on the same day.
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