The government in Israel just passed a law changing their Daylight Saving Time rules to extend Summer Time until the last Sunday in October.  Previously, DST would end before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.

Israel, Palestine, Syria and Libya are all changing their clocks on Friday with the start of Daylight Saving Time!  (Europe is changing on Sunday!)

Starting Daylight Saving Time this weekend is much of North America, including most areas of the United States and Canada, border regions in Mexico near the United States, Bahamas, Bermuda, Haiti, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

On the Southern Hemisphere of our world, Uruguay is ending DST this weekend to return to their standard time.

While popular culture has a fascination with December 21 as Doomsday, they leave out any details about what time this will take place. We don't believe it will happen for lots of reasons, but it would be nice to know what time we can celebrate that we are still here!
 
Just in case you want to "know" when doomsday will occur, we suggest using the local time of the Winter solstice in the land where the Mayans lived. The location of the Mayan Civilization includes parts of Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Mexico. The time for the Winter Solstice there will be about 5:11am, give or a take a bit for the eastern or western locations.

Since the locations mentioned all use the same time offset for their time zone, we've picked Yucatan, Mexico as a specific place, as it is home to Chichén Itza with the huge and famous pyramid of the sun. Use the link below and compare the time where you live with the time in the land of the Maya.

North America's turn to change this clocks this weekend.  The United States, Canada, parts of Mexico near the US border, Bahamas, Bermuda, Haiti, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Turks and Caicos Islands will all be falling back to standard time.

Many countries are adjusting their clocks this weekend!
 
Europe (including United Kingdom, France and Germany), Mexico (except for sections along US border), Greenland, Syria, Lebanon and Azerbaijan will all be ending Daylight Saving Time and moving back an hour to standard time.

The government in Jordan announced they will not be returning to Winter time, but will make their Daylight Saving Time adjustment a permanent change.  This was announced Wednesday and goes into effect less than two days later on Friday morning. 

Royal Jordanian airlines has issued a warning to flyers who have tickets already printed for travel to or from Jordan for the rest of October through March that their flight times on the tickets will be wrong and travellers need to add an hour to the times.  http://www.rj.com/en/news/title/2718.html

Two countries are starting DST this weekend. Both are Southern Hemisphere locations, of course, to be going into Summer instead of coming out of it.

Brazil (the parts that use DST including Rio de Janeiro) and Fiji will be starting Daylight Saving Time and moving their clocks forward an hour.

Another group of countries change their clocks next weekend, including Europe.

Two states in Brazil are changing their Daylight Saving Time rules this year, starting this coming weekend.

The state of Bahia is dropping DST and staying on standard time all year.

The state of Tocantins is scheduled to start observing DST this year.

If you follow time changes the way we do at WorldTimeServer.com, you know that other states in Brazil have tried to start using Daylight Savings Time, but had vocal citizens who try to force the government to back down on making a time change like this. Under pressure from voters, state governments have sometimes made an immediate change back to the old time rules. If they change their minds in Tocantins and go back to standard time, we will do our best to stay on top of it.

(and thanks to Google Translate, we can follow the news in Portuguese)