Side by Side · Episode 1 · Thu 1 Oct 2026
Sydney moves its clock. The 40-minute gap hits 07:30.
ASX shares trade 10:00–16:00 Sydney. SPI 200 futures trade 09:50–16:30 and 17:10–07:00. An Australia 200 quoting in the European day is on the second clock.
ASX share-market hours inside a European working day: zero. Sydney moves to daylight time on Sunday 4 October. From Monday, in Amsterdam: futures open 00:50 (was 01:50), the 40-minute break runs 07:30–08:10 (was 08:30–09:10), and the night session ends 22:00 (was 23:00).
It moves twice more: Europe’s clocks change 25 October, and from 1 November ASX ends the night session at 08:00 Sydney.
Watch for · Mon 5 Oct · 07:30 Amsterdam
Check your Australia 200 sessions.
Why would ASX tie its night session to the first Sunday of November?
Sources
ASX — Index derivatives trading hours and Cash market trading hours (asx.com.au) · NSW Government, daylight saving from Sunday 4 October 2026. Read 1 October 2026. Times converted to Amsterdam (CEST); Johannesburg is the same until 25 October, London one hour earlier. Mechanism, not direction.
