Heard that "Daylight Saving" would be abolished from Canada from the year 2007, is it true?
100491
I live in canada and they will not abolish the law they will change it. make it longer to fit with usa (sorry i dont know from what month to what month)
105862
I don't see how they can do away with them. It is a fact that the time is not running exactly to the second every year. If they did away with them they would eventually have to adjust something or atomic time would be different then local time.
23958
Never because there are different time zones around the world therefore if you are having nighttime another country may be having day time.
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Trust your computer :) Daylight savings time kicked in last night.
781583
The main reason we have daylight savings time is to make better use of the daylight.  At most places in the world, the amount of sunlight in each day varies depending upon the seasons.  \n\nIf we did not have daylight savings time, at some points during the summer, the sun would be rising at 5:30 in the morning.\n\nThis website has a very detailed description of daylight savings time.\n\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/index.html\n\nHope it helps!
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Daylight saving time ends October 29th this year.
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Thats because changing the time has nothing to do with the seasons, its all to do with day length. It was actually abolished in the UK in the late 70's to see what would happen and it proved too dangerous...kids were going to school in the morning in total darkness during the winter.\nThey have it all over the world, its the same in the US, they just call it daylight saving time
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Daylight saving time or daylight savings time (DST) is a widely used system of adjusting the official local time forward, usually one hour from its official standard time for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "savings" are spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.\n\nDST is most commonly used in temperate regions, due to the considerable variation in the amount of daylight versus darkness across the seasons in those regions.\n\nGovernments often tout it as an energy conservation measure, on the grounds that it allows more effecive use of natural sunlight resource in summer time. (People go to bed and wake up earlier, which reduces use of electric lights.) Some opponents reject this argument (see below, Criticism).\n\nEuropeans commonly refer to the system as summer time: Irish Summer Time, British Summer Time, and European Summer Time. This is reflected in the time zones names as well, e.g. Central European Time (CET) becomes Central European Summer Time (CEST).\n\nNote that the term commonly used in the United States, daylight savings time, has been criticized by some commentators as being incorrect, for both historic (the name as provided by the act which inaugurated it in the United States is daylight saving time) and grammatical reasons.
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No one really sets the dates. Daylight Saving Time begins for most of the United States at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of April. Time reverts to standard time at 2:00 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.\n This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school. The "saved" daylight is spent on evening activities which get more daylight, rather than being "wasted" while people sleep past dawn.
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Because it is a political decision and not a scientific decision. Daylight savings time is just the government's way of making you get up an hour early.
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Daylight Savings Time begins on the First Sunday in April at 2:00 AM, and ends on the last Sunday of October at 2:00 AM.\n\nStarting in 2007:\n\nDaylight Savings Time will begin at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and end at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday of November.  This will provide three more weeks of DST.\n\nBe correct when using time references:\nQuite often I see a letters or messages where someone mentions a time that something is supposed to happen and adds the identifier like CDT, (Central Daylight Time). I'm sure they are trying to appear intelligent but the "Daylight" time reference is not valid in January! It doesn't exist. Same with calling out Eastern Standard Time in June. \n\nYes, I know that these references are actually accurate in Arizona and parts of Ohio.  They don't do the Daylight Savings Time thing.
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"The change to Daylight Saving Time (not Savings!) allows us to use less energy in lighting our homes by taking advantage of the longer and later daylight hours."\n\nAs an aside, my birthday is on one of the last days in October, meaning that sometimes I have a 25-hour birthday... at least until 2007, when the time change back from DST will be pushed to the end of November.
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Well, Your mama is so fat when she bends over, we enter Daylight Saving Time.\n\n(I hate these kinds of jokes, but I guess they're sorta funny. Unless you're someones mom...)
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UK. The clocks go one hour forward and we become BST (British Summer Time).\nOtherwise(in autumn - the Fall) we revert to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).\nIf you are in the Army - just to confuse things - we have ZULU time.\nThis means that no matter where you are in the world, you still have the same clock!\nI hope I haven't broken the Official Secrets Act by revealing this!\nPS: As long as you wake up, you know that you are alive...doesn't matter what time it is. Good luck!
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The additional month will come at the end.\n\n"Daylight savings time commonly begins in the northern hemisphere on either the first Sunday in April or the last Sunday in March, and ends on the last Sunday in October. \n\nHowever, beginning in 2007, the United States will begin observing DST on the second Sunday of March until the first Sunday in November"\n\n-taken from Wikipedia.\n\nHope this helps
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here you have the answer\nhttp://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html
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From wikipedia:\n"Daylight saving time (also called DST) is the North American term for a system intended to "save" daylight (the British observe summer time, and likewise the Europeans). The official time is adjusted forward, (usually) one hour from its official standard time, remaining that way for the duration of the spring and summer months. This is intended to provide a better match between the hours of daylight and the active hours of work and school."\n\nIn my own wordings, it's adjusting time in summer/winter so you won't be going to school/work when it's dark, or waking up at 6am and the sun is too high in the sky.\nCountries usually adjust the time to make the change between summer/winter in sunrise/sunset easier on people.