Daylight saving time in Asia

As of 2016, DST is used in the following Asian countries:

The People's Republic of China experimented with DST from 1986, but abandoned DST from 1992 onwards. The PRC now uses one time zone (UTC+8) for the whole country.

Hong Kong used DST beginning in 1941, but abandoned it from 1980 onwards.

India used Daylight Saving Time (DST) briefly during wartime in 1942-1945. Currently, India does not observe DST.

A few parts of Indonesia (including Jakarta) briefly observed DST continuously on May 1, 1948 to May 1, 1950. Other possible error site timeanddate.com Time Zone Change 1 May, 1948 to 1 May, 1950. Its UTC offset during DST is UTC+08:00.

Iran observed DST in 1977-1980, 1991-2005 and since 2008 from March 21–22 (1/1 Persian calendar) to September 21–22 (6/30 Persian calendar).

Israel observed DST in 1940-1946, 1948-1957, 1974-1975 and since 1985. Currently, DST is observed from the Friday before the last Sunday of March to the last Sunday of October.

Jordan UTC+3 observed daylight saving time from the last Friday of March to the last Friday of October. On October 24, 2012, Jordan decided to continue observing daylight saving time for an entire year, ending in December 2013.

Kazakhstan made a decision to stop observing summer time in 2005, citing health complications as well as lowered productivity and a lack of economic benefits.

Kyrgyzstan voted to stop observing DST in 2005 and make UTC+6 as Standard Time (which used to be Kyrgyzstan Summer Time), thus having permanent DST due to the timezone shift.

Malaysia used DST from January 1, 1933, but discontinued on December 31, 1981 to replace DST with Malaysian Standard Time.

South Korea observed DST from 1948–51, from 1955–60, and from 1987-88. South Korea does not currently observe DST.

Sri Lanka observes DST in central province and Nuwara Eliya

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