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Time zone offset change this weekend

Thursday 6th of March 2014

IC Markets will be changing the time zone offset on the server over the weekend. They will be changing the server time from UTC+2 to UTC+3 so it will be moving forward one hour. This change is in accordance with the Forex market session time changes due to Daylight Saving Time in the United States on Sunday 9th March 2014, and it remains in effect until Sunday 2nd November, 2014. The MetaTrader 4 platform time will remain at a market open of 00:00:00, and a market close of 23:59:59 throughout the year.

The new trading hours starting from Monday March 10th, 2014 are listed below

Market Open
21:00 GMT Sunday evening (09-03-2014) - 00:00 Platform time Monday morning (10-03-2014)

Market Close
21:00 GMT Friday evening - 00:00 Platform time Saturday morning

Once England and Europe changes to DST on March 30th, 2014 we will observe the times below.

Market Open
22:00 BST (GMT+1) Sunday evening - 00:00 Platform time Monday morning

Market Close
22:00 BST (GMT+1) Friday evening - 00:00 Platform time Saturday morning