Design ground motions are typically prescribed by smooth response spectra. Engineers often prefer to use a time history that matches the target design spectrum rather than evaluate a structure for a sit of time histories that are representative of the target spectrum in an ensemble average. Generally, scaling actual time histories to match a given design spectrum can be made by two preferred methods: First, ground motions uniform scaling in time domain which is simply scaled up or down the ground motion uniformly to best match the target spectrum within a period range of interest, without changing the frequency content. Second, spectral matching in time domain which produces only localized perturbations on both the time history and the its response spectrum, where small adjustments can be made to a time history to change its response spectrum from jagged to smooth, if done properly the resulting time history can be “realistic”. The realistic nature of a time history should be judged in the time domain in terms of the non stationary character of acceleration, velocity and displacement, for that the effectiveness of the two methods is examined by applying them to adjust actual earthquake time histories to much the design spectra while minimizing perturbations on their characteristics. The procedures are utilized to scale 15 set of records, every set consists of seven records of available real records to match the Syrian design spectra. The resulting time histories are investigated and compared in terms of suitability as input to time history analysis of civil engineering structures