daylight savings start time for 2026

Just a reminder for all our community members that this year, Daylight Savings Time (DST) starts from Sunday 29th March in Europe (last Sunday of the month)

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@emma_durban - 2 months ago

DST also starts from Sunday, 29th March in the Americas but some parts will experience it earlier

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@emma_durban - 2 months ago

United States will fall back by one hour while Europe will do the opposite and push forward by one hour.

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@hosea_makelele - 2 months ago

Oh so its last Sunday of March! I always thought it was first week of March

I always set my trading platform time zone to match the current time in London cos I trade mostly during the London session. At the moment London time is UTC so my TradingView time zone is also set to UTC. However, when DST starts London will change their time zone to UTC+1 so i will also do the same.

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@emma_durban - 2 months ago
Quoted - yokoyi

Daylight savings has officially started for the year 2026, so trading sessions will open one hour earlier than they used to

Yes, I almost missed it today @yokoyi. But may I ask, will the trading platforms adjust the date for DST automatically?

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@yokoyi - 2 months ago

I use cTrader and TradingView and they both adjusted the time zone for DST automatically. For MetaTrader it doesn't adjust for some brokers.