Daylight Saving Changes in 2026

No. India Standard Time has been a fixed UTC+5:30 since 1945 and has no daylight saving. Every change in the gap between India and another country comes from the other side, which means an Indian team’s calendar shifts relative to its partners twice a year without anything changing at home.

They use different rules. The US moves on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November; the EU moves on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. For roughly two weeks in spring and one in autumn, the gap from India to the US and the gap from India to Europe move independently. Any converter applying one rule of thumb is wrong during those weeks.

It runs the other way. Australian and New Zealand clocks go forward in October and back in April, so the gap from India is at its widest during the Indian winter. Within Australia it is not uniform either — Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory do not observe daylight saving at all.

Mexico abolished daylight saving for most of the country in 2022, Jordan moved to a permanent UTC+3 in 2022, and Egypt reintroduced daylight saving in 2023. This is why the site reads the IANA database at build time rather than storing its own copy of the rules.