When is nz daylight savings

You turn your clocks forward one hour at 2am when daylight savings starts in September each year. This year Daylight Saving time ends on Sunday 3 April at 3am when clocks are turn backward 1 hour to 2am. When daylight saving time ends there will be more light in the morning than the day before, but it will be darker in the evenings.

Daylight saving originated in New Zealand in and was first introduced in New Zealand in The current dates for starting and finishing daylight saving each year have been fixed since as detailed in the New Zeland Daylight Time Order Auckland For Kids helps families find fun things to do together with their children in Auckland, New Zealand.

Auckland is currently at Alert Level 3 Step 1. The current times have been fixed since Search Govt. Your browser currently has JavaScript turned off, which means that Govt. It's easy to turn JavaScript on - find out how to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Skip to main content. Recreation and the environment. Daylight saving Daylight saving begins when clocks at 2am go forward by 1 hour to 3am on 26 September A daylight saving public attitude survey conducted in found that 82 per cent of New Zealanders approved of the extension to the period of daylight saving time.

The Chatham Islands are 45 minutes ahead of New Zealand standard time. The order determines that daylight saving starts each year on the last Sunday in September, and ends on the first Sunday in April. The purpose? He wanted extra hours of sunshine after work so he could go bug hunting in the summer.

His idea was initially mocked but then adopted around the world - although not quite universally as a lot of countries don't use daylight saving time. NZ Herald.