12 Argentinian Provinces (Catamarca, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta,San Juan,San Luis,La Pampa,Neuquen,Rio Negro,Chubut,Santa Cruz, Tierra del Fuego- Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur.) exempt from Summer Time (DST) observance starting on October 19, 2008.
Western Australia will observe the final year of a 3-year Daylight Saving trial this year, starting on October 26, 2008.
Much of Australia will begin DST on October 5, 2008.
Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced for another 2 months- plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 instead of August 31.
English language article from newspaper No. 16578 (07/11/2008), L'Express Mauritius- restates introduction of DST from 1st November 2008 to 31st March 2009.
French language (different article) of same newspaper No. 16578 (07/11/2008), L'Express Mauritius-
states that DST in Mauritius will start on October 26 and will end on March 27 ...???
Brazil makes changes in time zones (June 24/25, 2008)- modifing number of time zones (from current 4 time zones to three),
eliminating time zone UTC- 05 (state Acre and the part of the Amazonas will be UTC/GMT- 04), western part of Pará state
is moving to one timezone UTC- 03 (from UTC -04).
States of Jersey (the Channel Islands) will hold a referendum on Wednesday 15th October 2008 on whether
to adopt CET(Central European Time) zone- aligning its clocks with the Spain, Germany, France...
Western Australia (Perth) will end DST on March 30, 2008- while rest of Australian places observing DST will end DST 1 week later- on April 6, 2008- may create a mini-Y2K by putting computers, phones and other services out of sync.
(Cancelling Daylight Time in Iraq)