Time and Date
Local Time
Current local time is UTC-04:00 (Universal Time Coordinate, formerly Greenwich Mean Time).
However, during Daylight Saving Time (DST or summer time) clocks are adjusted one hour foward (UTC-03:00) from the second Saturday of October, at 12 am, till the second Saturday of March, same time.
During what is locally known as Winter Time, that is between March and Octuber, Chile has the same time as Eastern United States (DST). The rest of the year though, it's 2 hours later than DST.
Time zone for Easter Island is UTC-06:00 time zone but UTC-05:00 during summer.
Chile uses 24-hour clock format and little endian forms for dates, that is "dd/mm/yyyy" format.
Hollidays
Holidays are on the following dates:
- 1st, January:Â New Year
- March/April (variable): Good Friday Â
- 1st, May:Â Labour Day
- 21st, May:Â Glory of the Navy
- June (variable): Corpus Christi
- 29th, June:Â Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- 15th, August: Assumption of Mary
- 18th, September:Â Independence Day
- 19th, September:Â Glory of the Army
- 12th, October: Columbus Day
- 1st, November: All Saints' Day
- 8th, December: Immaculate Conception
- 25th, December:Â Christmas Day
Need more information on hollidays? Please visit Feriados.cl.
Working Schedule
These are schedules of common daily actitvities, offices and services during the week:
Offices:
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 6:00 pm
Banks:
Monday to Friday
9:00 to 2:00 pm
Shopping Malls:
Monday to Sunday
11:00 to 9:00 / 10:00 pm
Stores & shops:
Monday to Saturday
10:00 to 8:00 pm
Supermarkets:
Monday to Sunday
8:30 to 10:00 /11:00 pm
Cinema:
Monday to Sunday
4:00pm, 7:00 & 10:00pm
Lunch time:
1:00 pm to 3:30 pm
Dinner time:
9:00 pm to 12:00 am















