Turkey has announced that it will no longer observe daylight saving time going forward. This change took effect on September 7, 2016. The country had been scheduled to end its DST observance on October 30, 2016. Instead, Turkey will remain permanently set to the UTC+3 time zone and will not return to UTC+2.
This update applies to the following operating systems:
Time zone key name | Old display name | New display name |
---|---|---|
Turkey Standard Time | (UTC+02:00) Istanbul | (UTC+03:00) Istanbul |
This update applies to the following operating systems:
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack1 (SP1)
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- Windows Vista SP2