Libya to change its time zone

The government of Libya has announced that clocks will go back one hour at 02:00 on Saturday 10 November 2012.^[1]

Until now, Libya has used UTC+2. From 10 November, it uses UTC+1, the same time zone as Paris, Naples and Stockholm. Those Central European countries went back to standard time on 28 October 2012.

Most Western countries in the northern hemisphere use daylight saving time in summer, but in Africa only Morocco and Namibia use it.

In Europe, summer time starts on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. Libya plans a different schedule: its clocks will go forward at 01:00 on the last Friday of March and back at 02:00 on the last Friday of October.^[1]

Update, 26 October 2026: The change did not last. Libya used UTC+1 only until 29 March 2013, when its summer time (UTC+2) began, and in October 2013 it canceled the switch back. Since then, Libya has kept UTC+2 all year, with no clock changes.^[2] See also: Libya canceled the autumn 2013 switch to standard time.